Fortuitous and probably more than fortuitous. It looks like a coverup. This is new day withes chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to new day. Chris is off. John berman is joining me. Happy friday. Great to be here. We start with breaking news. President trumps fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn offering to testify before congress did they grant him immunity. His lawyer says flynn has a story to tell about russias alleged meddling in the u. S. Election and ties to the donald Trump Campaign. The white house is facing a firestorm. Reports showing that white house staffers who gave the house chairman nunes the documents with incidental surveillance of Trump Associates. We have a lot to cover on day 71 of the trump presidency. We have sara murray at the white house. Michael flynn seeking immunitim. Reporter that is right, john. More twists and turns as we dig into the russia probes with the ties of associates and russian operatives. Now Michael Flynn, the ousted National Security advisor, says his offer to testify comes with a catch. President trumps fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn offering to testify before the congressional investigators if he gets immunity from progresses cues. Flynns lawyer saying general flynn has a story to tell. He very much wants to tell it should the circumstance permit. No reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from counsel would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment against unfair prosecution. Flynns lawyer says discussion was the comm discussions have taken place. So far the offer has been not accepted. The Trump Administration is battling allegations of collusion among probes in the white house and senate with the russian meddling in the election. The white house declining to comment on the flynn news. The very last thing that john podesta just said is no individual too big to jail, that should include people like Hillary Clinton. Five people around her have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. When you are given immunity, you probably committed a crime. Reporter then candidate trump echoing flynns words. If you are not guilty of a crime, why do you need immunity . Reporter for weeks, house and Senate Investigators expressed interest in speaking with flynn in addition to three other former trump an soeshssas it is safe to say we had conversations with a lot of people. You would think less of us if general flynn was in this list. Reporter he was forced to resign a month into the presidency. After admitting he misled mike pence with his conversation with sergei kislyak. That is coming after flynns account and weeks after the j T Justice Department warned the white house. General flynn is a wonderful man. I think he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media. Reporter now this white house is insistent that questions about russia are a distraction. Officials said repeatedly they believe there is no evidence of collusion between Trump Campaign officials and suspected russian operatives. It is worth noting the leaders of the senate probe have not gone that far. Sara at the white house. But wait, theres more. Another controversial consuming washington. Several staffers in the Trump White House shared files with nunes. Nunes then took that Information Dr directly back to the president rather than his committee and that weird chain of events. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux on capitol hill with more. Reporter good morning, john. The house and senate are not in session today. The Congress Member at the center of all this, nunes, is back in california for the weekend. The controversy over whether he colluded with the white house to back trumps claim he was wiretapped is taking center stage on capitol hill this morning. Embattled house chairman nunes facing growing allegations of collusion with the white house. Now reporting that white house officials provided nunes with intelligence reports during the secret visit to white house grounds last week. I briefed the president on the concerns that i had. Reporter a bizarre development considering nunes went back to the white house the next day to brief President Trump on material he allegedly got from the president s own staff. Was this an attempt to find post facto justification . We dont have answers because as usual, the white house doesnt answer questions about this. Reporter nuness previous statements contradicting the report. By holding the meeting on the white house grounds makes it appear someone in the administration was coordinating the release of the information to you. Is that not the case . No, thats not the case. Reporter the New York Times and Washington Post reporting one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Both papers reporting that general mcmaster wanted to fire the staffer, but Jared Kushner stepped in and prevented it from happening. The timing certainly looks fortuitous and probably more than fortuitous. Better the letter, the Ranking Member asked to review the materials which i have. That suggests, of course, these are the same materials the chairman reviewed. If that is the case, it begs the question why all of the subterfuge . Maybe there is an innocent explanation. Reporter sean spicer refusing to confirm or refute the report. Im not commenting on the reports. Reporter the latest development coming two weeks after President Trump suggested that more information would come out to support his still unproven wiretapping claims. We will submit things before the committee soon. I think you will find some very interesting items coming to the forefront. On the speculation of whether nunes and the white house engaged in collusion overshadowed the first day of hearings where they delved into the Russian Disinformation Campaign and tried to try to hack u. S. Systems. Alisyn. Suzanne, thank you for that reporting. Joining us is angus king of maine. Good morning, senator. Good morning, alisyn. How are you . Im well. Thanks for joining us on this busy news day. I dont mean your work, but your birthday. Happy birlthday. Thank you. Enough frivolity. Lets get to the news. Will you grant immunity to general Michael Flynn who is asking for it . Certainly i think it is premature to answer that question. There is a process that has to be gone through. The committee isnt the decision of the chair or vice chair. We will have to understand what he is proposing. One of your commentators earlier said he is a subject of an fbi investigation. We dont want to do something to compromise that. Whenever we do is in coordination with the fbi. Michael flynns Attorney Says he is has a story to tell about russia. Meec meaning the ties or hacking or all of. That dont you want to hear that story . We do. We dont want to compromise the investigation going forward. We have to understand more detail of what he does have to say. Usually when someone requests immunity, they have a story to tell. The other piece is that the fbi is also investigating this matter and as i say, we have to coordinate with them. All in good time. I think thats the essence of it. Everybody wants to get the news today or tomorrow. I dont want to do something and we dont want to do something that would compromise our ability to get to the bottom of the truth of the matter. Senator, moments ago, the president tweeted about this thing. He said, Michael Flynn should ask for immunity in this is a witch hunt. S excuse of big election loss by media and democrats. I wish he would have taken a couple hours yesterday and watched the hearing we had the Senate Intelligence committee. There is no doubt whatsoever that the russians were behind an effort to interfere with our elections. That came through loud and clear. Number two, there is no doubt this is a russian pattern for years. One took it back to the 30s. They have been trying to do this disinformation as part of the tool kit. They are doing it in france and germany. To continue to deny that is just flying in the face of all of the reali reality. One of the witnesses testified now we know it was the russians and technical background. This is not a witch hunt. This is an effort to get to the truth of some very important questions. I dont think the president does himself any good by continuing to deny what is established. There isnt whether or not the Trump Campaign was in coordination with the russians was establish. That is part of the investigation. When you deny the basic facts that the russians were behind, i just think it undermines the president s credibility. Senator, i want you to explain what you learned yesterday that makes you say there is no doubt whatsoever that the russians interfered. We have been saying allegedly interfered. What to you is the smoking gun that makes this not alleged, but fact . One of the importants pieces of testimony yesterday afternoon, we had four hours of hearings yesterday by jim mandian. He is one of the leading experts in the country on cyber intrusion and Cyber Attacks and forensics which is how you determine where it came from. He testified at length about the technical background and how they draw conclusions that it has things to do with where is the ip address and what time of day and what are the kinds of Standard Software and computer language that is used. This is a science. Im sure there is a bit of an art to it too. Also, this was unanimous conclusion of the Intelligence Community back last october and again, part of the evidence is that they are doing it right now. We know they are involved in the president ial campaign in france trying to boost one candidate and trying to sully the other. That is established. The longer the white house or president tries to argue with that, like i say, it undermines the credibility then to go forward and Say Something may have happened, but we didnt have anything to do with it. Everything i have seen and particularly it was underlined by the witnesses we had. We know the russians were doing this. It was a very sophisticated operation. By the way, one of the things that came clear yesterday, they will keep doing it. Buckle your seatbelts. This is not a onetime deal in 2016. There was Something Else that happened at your hearing. Another witness said something eyebrow raising. Clint watts. Let me play what he said. Follow the trail of dead russians. There are more dead russians in the past three months tied to the investigation who have as t assets and banks all over the world. What does that mean . He was following conversation about follow the trail of the money and there have been a number of deaths. Vladimir putins opponents have a way of turning up either dead or sick in some extreme. Is that connected to the u. S. Meddling . I dont think you can make that connection. Im not prepared to make that connection. They may have just been garden variety opponents of the regime in some way. There may be a connection. Im not ruling it out. Im also not saying there was. I think thats yet to be determined. One of the things we learned yesterday. Theres a lot more to come. A lot of information out there. Were starting to dig into it on our committee. I think all of us have been to langley and the cia headquarters and going through the classified documents. I have and marco rubio has. I think the other news from yesterday, as you mentioned got buried by the house chair, was we are pursueding in a nonpartisan way. I think that is really important. It is not going to be easy. There will be times when it is a strain on that. I think many of the members on both sides realize that Vladimir Putin is an equal opportunity bad guy. He may have come after the democrats this time. He could easily come after the republicans next time if it suits his purposes. His purposes. Not ours. Senator, what do you make of the news this morning that devin nunes was provided the Sensitive Information he saw at the white house by white house officials that were not naming . First, i repeat what chairman burr said the day before yesterday at the conference. I want to focus on what were doing and not comment on the white house. It is clear that the chairman should not have gone to the white house in the midst of this by himself without informing the committee. As to how they sort that out and what the results are, the house has to sort that out. Senator angus king. Thank you very much. Have a great birthday. Thank you. Moments ago, President Trump said that general Michael Flynn should seek immunity. Is that political advice . Is it legal advice . Is it smart . Thats next. What makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple veggie dish ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. The best simple dinner ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. Great tasting, heart healthy california walnuts. So simple. Get the recipes at walnuts. Org. President trump weighing in moments ago on a request from his fired National Security vice other Michael Flynn who is seeking immunity for testimony before congress. Mike flynn should ask for immunity in this is a witch hunt. Excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion. Lets bring in analyst David Gregory and reporter abby phillip and julia icahn. The president of the United States weighing in on someone involved in the investigation. Seeking immunity. Im not sure i have seen anything like that. There is a lot we have not seen like predonald trump who ss to take this is as a joke and proceeded by members of the white house staff who had no business leaking the information. It raises question of who is in control. The white house chief of staff or National Security adviser ors white house counsel. Who has control or whether there is open season to investigate the leaking that was going on which is trouble some and the president is so upset about. The fact that the president keeps considering this a joke, although he has fired two people close to him. Senior advisers as a result of this, seems hard to reconcile. Juliette, how do you see this . I think the way david put it is exactly right. The more the white house views this as a joke, i think it under mines any narrative to defend them selves. You look at the activity last week and mike flynn and the news last night and the white house needs to have a narrative. There is no question about it. Just too many data points to suggest they can ignore this or keep invoking Hillary Clinton. I also for viewers, remember the rest of the world is also watching this. We tend to think insular. We think of countries like north korea and russia and china and troops in iraq and syria. All of this lack of focus, lack of formality by the white house is viewed by them as well. It will impact how they treat us as enemies or foes. The president of the United States is calling an fbi investigation into alleged connections collusion with the Trump Associates with the russian as as a witch hunt. He is calling a republican led Senate Investigation into the same thing. A witch hunt. Abbey, you get the president is all in on discrediting any questions at all about possible con da contacts from his campaign. He has been for some time. What i think is happening here is this is a president who he says and allies say likes to punch back. That is what he is doing. He is punching back at the folks who he believes are coming after him. The problem is this is very real. It is not just people making comments about him. This is the product of an actual investigation. When he responds to it, he is creating reaction out in the world. We saw this happening with the wiretapping claim. When the president says something, it results in other people taking actions that can then come back and hurt him more. For the white house, this is a real problem. They are trying to move forward on real legislation and issues they want to push and jobs general. Every time the president goes on twitter and pours gasoline on the fire, he is creating a big explosion that is coming back on their faces in a way that is damaging to longterm agenda that is not all about russia every single day. David, Michael Flynns attorney has dangled this juicy morsel and said to the senate and house intel general flynn certainly has a story to tell. What are we to make of that play . We dont know. First of all, anybody who is entitled to seek immunity and not indication of guilt, contrary to what he himself said, and what President Trump has said, there are and these investigations, politics gets crazy. You do have not just a committee looking into you, but the fbi and things can get out of hand. You want legal protection. Theres nothing untoward about seeking that immunity. Maybe he is unhappy with how he was treated as a result of all this. In the internal investigation and white house that led to him being fired because he wasnt honest about contact was russian ambassa