Clearance application about two more international trips. Both made during the president ial campaign. One of the trips involving a Nuclear Russian deal worth 100 billion in saudi arabia. And tonight, Top Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees are demanding more documents from flynn. The committees letter, which weve obtained, also charges and get this, they say flynn did not disclose a single meeting with a Foreign Government official for seven years. On page 74 of the Government Security clearance form, fs86, its a very clear question when applying for security clearance. It says, have you in the past seven years been involved in any other type in any type of business adventure with a foreign national. The Committee Letter says flynn completely missed the question. They wrote, quote, in their letter, most troubling of all, we have no record of general flynn identifying on his security clearance renewal application even a single Foreign Government official that he had contact with in the seven years prior to submitting his application. We begin with new information about flynns russian connections with manu raju. Manu is at capitol hill. A very big letter here from the democrat on the oversight committee. Why are these trips that they are saying that they failed to disclose or disclosed details about so important . Reporter well, there are two trips that are taken to the middle east by mr. Flynn, including one trip in which it involved the building of Nuclear Power plants in exchange for 100 billion in arms that we purchased from some of these middle east countries, arms purchased from russia. This is something that russia apparently was involved with, according to this report from newsweek that these two members of congress are particularly interested in. Theres Elijah Cummings of maryland and Elliott Engle of new york asking the attorneys of Michael Flynn to provide more documents. This comes after enormous scrutiny for Michael Flynn for not disclosing not just these middle east trips but other trips hes taken over the years, including trips paid for by russianbacked entities, including Russian Television network where he appeared at a dinner next to Vladimir Putin and also did not disclose that that was paid for by rt. One thing that they are looking at is whether or not he misled federal investigators by not disclosing these meetings, including these two mideast trips that are not at the center of these two house democrats. Obviously it would be very significant, not just the trips themselves. They met with foreign officials and it was involving a 100 billion possible deal with russia. The letter also says, manu, the letter that you obtained, that flynns security clearance was a very specific question. Have you dealt with foreign nationals in the last seven years. He did not include a single meeting with a foreign official in the last seven years. How is this possible . Reporter well, thats a good question. Its a question weve put for Michael Flynns attorneys as well. No comment yet from Michael Flynns attorneys about these this disclosure by these two congressmen. But this comes as Michael Flynn himself is getting some scrutiny as well on the senate side of the capital, including President Trump urging allegedly urging the fbi director to back off the investigation of Michael Flynn. Erin, tonight we have learned that the Senate Judiciary committee wants to look into that aspect of Michael Flynn as well and whether or not President Trump acted improperly in any way in urging the fbi director to back off that investigation of his former National Security adviser. So Michael Flynn is getting a lot of scrutiny from the senate and house side as they look for more information about his role here, erin. Thank you very much, manu raju. We have a member that will join us in a moment. First, jeff zeleny at the white house. Any response to this new and possibly extremely significant news on general flynn . Reporter erin, theres no response to this specific news. Heres why. At this point in this investigation, its essentially every man for himself here. Michael flynn was the National Security adviser and he was central to this and now hes central to the russia investigation, of course. But the white house has its own problems of its own. They are not focusing on that. But the white house is also looking at messaging and staffing issues. Again today, the White House Daily press briefing not on television. They are trying to change the subject. They had a bunch of ceos trying to get people to focus on that but the reality is here, sean spicer, the White House Press secretary, of course, was giving a briefing that was not on television. We could not have his sound his pictures at all. They are trying to limit all of this. Now there are also questions tonight if his role is going to stay on. They are looking at potentially a different role for spicer. This could come down the road potentially not immediately, but there could be a new White House Press secretary. Im not sure what it matters because they dont want to focus on the russia investigation and thats all about things that are dominating at the white house. And it has everything to do with the investigation itself. The press secretary wont change that. Thank you very much. I want to go to richard blumenthal, a member of the ju judiciary committee. I want to start with the breaking news on general flynn. He may have mislead information on the security clearance form, one that involved russia and a 100 billion deal with the russians. Your reaction . Well, these additional disclosures, thanks to cnn, emphasized how problematic the president asking comey to let flynn go would be and how serious the potential obstruction of justice more serious the flynn nondisclosures. His lies in effect on those security forms about contacts with the russians. The more deepening the ties to the russians and the pattern of secret and concealed dealings with him are and it is also important because flynn may know about additional source of information. I want to ask you more about breaking news. Also, the breaking news from your own committee. Because as you said, you see this as part of the reason why its so important to look into the president and his motives when he asked the fbi director to let this thing go, referring to the investigation to general Michael Flynn. You heard manu raju reporting that your committee is in agreement on the scope of the investigation. Is the obstruction of justice included . Very much so. Obstruction of justice has to be included because it involved potential malfeasance and wrongdoing in the department of justice. If there was an attempt to obstruct it, if people in the department were involved or officials in the white house, obstruction of justice, political interference with an Ongoing Investigation regardless of what the president s lawyer may say could make the president a target, a subject, a person of interest and so our hearing will very much involve potential obstruction of justice in the firing of comey and other actions. So on this issue with general flynn, congressional investigators have said that they have and i quote from their letter again no record of general flynn identifying on his security clearance renewal application even a single Foreign Government official he had contact with in the seven years prior to submitting his application. Flynn, of course, was in the business and part of his business involved dealings as a consultant. Could this have been an accidental omission, in your view . That may be his side of the story. That may be his excuse or defense. But general flynn has been around for quite a while and anybody who has worked with the government knows that a falsehood on that kind of security clearance form, a falsehood to an fbi agent is punishable by five years in prison. Were talking about a very serious felony for each one of these possible lies and i think that a prosecutor would find it very difficult to believe that this was simply accidental. You heard our reporting tonight that were not getting answers from the white house in response to this latest news from general flynn and obviously wed like to know their response to your committee and now youre saying that obstruction of justice is very much a part of this. We arent getting those answers, though, because as we said, the press Secretary Sean Spicer, could be leaving inside the west wing but this comes as he and his colleagues are not taking questions on camera. They are not even leetitting th media play their answers and its a pretty unstunning and unprecedented situation. What do you think the reason is . There could be all kinds of reasons but thinking like a prosecutor, which i was for a number of years and state attorney general, what everyone says about this situation is potentially evidence against them and whatever they say, it will have no impact on what the outcome is. The special prosecutor is going to do his investigation doggedly and accurately because thats who Robert Mueller is and our committee, the judiciary committee, is going to do our investigation without regard to what the press secretary says or the president s lawyer, for that matter, saying whether he is or isnt a subject of investigation. Senator, there is some very sad news this evening. The student held hostage in north korea, Otto Warmbier, died this afternoon. The president responded just moments ago. Here he is. I just wanted to pass on word that Otto Warmbier has just passed away. He spent a year and a half in north korea. A lot of bad things happened. At least we got him home to be with his parents. Its a brutal regime. And well be rablg to handle it. Senator, youre in the Armed Services committee as well as judiciary. You heard the president , its a brutal regime and well be able to handle it. Is that a credible threat and should it be . The larger issue is the growing military threat from north korea. My heart goes out to the family and certainly the conditions of his imprisonment were brutal and cruel and typical of the hardheartedness and brutality of that regime. Equally, if not more important, is the growing Nuclear Threat from the nuclear arms that that country is doing to develop repeatedly. They are testing those missiles and we need a strategy, which we have not seen. Should we retaliate . I want to know more about what the considerations are before we talk about retaliation for this death. Certainly the imprisonment of this individual, along with others, and the human rights violations, we need a strategy in how to deal with north korea. All right. Thank you very much, senator blumenthal. Outfront next, President Trump tweets that hes under investigation by the special counsel but his attorneys say that he is not. Why . Plus, a hightech u. S. Warship colliding with a massive cargo ship in the open ocean. 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One, whether he misled officials on his security clearance form about two trips to the middle east, one involving russia and a 100 billion nuclear deal, and the other, they are saying, in terms of the investigation itself, is whether he left off seven years of meetings on his security form. This comes as President Trumps legal team insists that the president himself is not under investigation contrary to reporting. Michelle kosinski is outfront. Reporter mr. President , are you under investigation by the special counsel . The president today silent on questions over the possibility he is now being investigated by the special prosecutor in the expanding russia probe over his conversations with and subsequent firing of james comey. Still, plenty of fallout over trumps tweet on friday. I am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. Which hunt. Yet, trumps recent addition to his legal team, jay sekulow, got into it in a string of tv appearances and contradicted the president , denying that trump himself is under investigation. So how he would know that is unclear. Now, under your theory, the department of justice, through its special counsel office, would be investigating the president for taking the action that they recommended him to take. Well, a couple of things. Im not arguing the substance. I just want to be very clear on what that is. The president of the United States says thats not true. He said he was going to get rid of comey no matter what the a. G. Said. If youre going to spend so much time on this, why dont you pick up the phone and get the answer. Youre asking me to pick up the phone on an investigation that we dont know exists. So the president said, i am under investigation even though he isnt under investigation . That response on social media was in response to the Washington Post piece. Its that simple. The president is not under investigation. Then, he seemed to be saying the opposite on fox news. First of all, you have now said hes being investigated after saying no. No, hes not being investigated. You just said hes being investigated. No. Chris, i said that the let me be Crystal Clear so you completely understand. We have not received nor are we aware of any investigation of the president of the United States. So lets deconstruct this president ial tweet a little more. The president said hes being investigated for firing james comey by the person who had told him to fire comey. To whom is he referring . A Trump Associates said hes talking about the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who was praised by trump only weeks ago. Today, sean spicer was asked, does the president still have confidence in rosenstein but he would respond only that the president has confidence in everyone who serves him in this administration. Erin . Mesh shelichelle, thank you. Outfront right now, john dean, ana palmer, and former adviser to four president s, nixon among them, david gergen. David, let me start with you. Why is trumps legal team so consumed with talking coming out and talking and saying that trump is not being investigated . Theres a report out, tthe Washington Post report said that he is being investigated and trump came out and tweeted that he was. Why are they out there creating more and more