The world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Theres lots of breaking news were watching right now. Unfolding in the russian investigation. Cnn has raelearned that attorne general Jeff Sessions did not disclose meetings with russian officials and other foreign contacts when he applied for security clearance. Stand by for exclusive new details. Also this hour, congressional investigators have not received copies of james comeys notes that documented the fired fbi director conversations with the president. Key house and Senate Committees said today is the deadline for the Justice Department to turn over the investigation as they investigate whether President Trump tried to influence comeys investigation. Senators asking the white house for any possible tapes of the president s conversationes with comey in the oval office. Also tonight, ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn defied congress again, denying House Intelligence Committee request for documents about his russia connections. Top democrat of the panel now says flynn will be slapped with new subpoenas. Were also following breaking news in the concert terror attack in britain. A seventh person is under arrest in england and the suicide bombers brother is in custody in libya accused of plotting a new attack there. This as authorities confirm the deadly bombing at Ariana Grande concert was linked to terror. I will speak with Jason Chaffetz and his First Response to the panels failure to get a hold of james comeys notes. And specialists are also standing by. First, to our senior congressional reporter manu raju with our exclusive new reporting on attorney general sessions and his russia connections. You broke the story. He broke the story along with cnns evan perez. All right, what are you learning . Tonight Justice Department officials are telling cnn that attorney general Jeff Sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with russian officials when he applied for security clearance. This is new information from the Justice Department. This is the latest example of sessions not listing contacts he had with russian officials earlier this year. Earlier this year he came under whithering criticism from democrats after it was revealed he did not disclose the same contacts with the Russian Ambassador during the Senate Confirmation hearings. Senate met with kysilak at least two times and he did not list that on the form. He was required to list any contact he had or his family had with quote a Foreign Government or representatives or the past seven years. Now since sessions failed to disclose these same meetings led him to recuse himself from all matters related to the russian investigation, though he said he does not recall discussing campaign matters, wolf, with meetings with kysliak. How could he not have disclosed these mootings . Well, collin perez was told initially sessions had security clearance and he and an employee who filled out the form was told he did not have to list what happened. Now the fbi did not comment for the story, wolf, but we did get a comment from a legal expert, an attorney here in washington, regularly assisting officials and filling out forms and they said senators quote would still have to reveal the appropriate Foreign Government contacts assuming they were not at a foreign conference and wolf we know from these meetings they were not at a foreign conference. All right, thanks very much. Manu raju reporting this exclusive information. We are also following other major developments right now. Lets get to breaking news in the russia probe including that deadline for law makers to obtain key evidence as they investigate whether President Trump tried to influence james comeys investigation before he was fired as fbi director. Global Affairs Correspondent elise laughin is joining us. Where do things stand this hour . Tonight, wolf, lawmakers still do not have any tapes that President Trump might have of his private meeting. Jason chaffetz says james comey owes him paperwork by the end of the day including memos about his meetings with President Trump and tonight lawmakers are putting the squeeze on Michael Flynn who is refusing to cooperate with a pair of investigations on the hill. Tonight the House Oversight committee has not received documents it requested from fb i director james comey about his meetings with President Trump. The committee chairman, Jason Chaffetz, set today as the deadline for memos to be turned over. Comey first wants to talk to spati special Council Robert mueller. One memo which allegedly states trump asked comey during meeting to shut down his investigation into National Security adviser Michael Flynn is central to all of the probes. If he has such a document that would add creedance and given his training as a lir and professional skills, he would want to document the not just verbally but in writing the documents. Michael flynn. Lawmakers are turning up the heat on flynn. Who today refused to provide documents to the house intel committee. Flynn already invoked his fifth amendment rights this week it avoid cooperating with the senate probe. Now the Senate Intel Committee is nair yog its request with new subpoenas targeting his businesses. It is even more clear that a business does not have a right to take the fifth if it is a corporation. Flynn has until may 30 to comply and the committee pledged to do whatever it takes to get flynns documents. We will seek additional counsel advice on how to proceed forward. At the end of that option is a contempt charge. And ive said that everything is on the table. Investigators appear to be focused on allegations of white house interference. And want any memos written by director of national intelligence, dan coats, and admiral mike rogers, director of National Security agency, about their meetings with the president. On tuesday coats faced questions from lawmakers about reports trump asked both men to deny charges of collusion with russia. Had you talked about this issue with admiral rogers . That is something that i i would like to withhold that question at this particular point in time. Sources tell cnn trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort is cooperating. Handing over more than 300 pages of documents from his time on the campaign. He was asked about his ties to russia but tourusly not about his work as a lobbyist for the party of ukraines former pro russian prime minister. Trump reportedly discussed firing of comey with russias foreign minister and called the former fbi director a quote, nut job. Today House Speaker paul ryan pushed back. Is it concern to you that president referred to the former fbi director as a nut job . Yeah, i dont agree with that. And hes not. It is perceived President Trump tapped one of the top counsel, one of trumps long time attorneys, doesnt know washington but is a well known Trial Attorney that also represents russian companies. Resetting the search for fbi director after wideranging former leading cabinet senator joe lieberman. Lieberman is a partner at the same law firm as kasoweitz. Joining us now, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee republican congressman Jason Chaffetz. Congressman, thanks for joining us. Thanks, wolf. So we have a lot to discuss concerning your committees investigations. First i want to ask you about cnns new reporting. You just heard it at top of the hour. How concerned are you that attorney general sessions omitted mentioning meetings with the Russian Ambassador on his application for security clearance . I havent seen the application. I dont know what is required. Accidental content or a convention is required. It is the issue for the senate. They are the ones that go through the confirmation process and you would hope that anyone filling out forms give it truthfully and fulfills the onab obligation that they are doing. There is a deadline that mr. Chairman for the fbi and supply any former fbi director comeys memos and conversation with President Trump. Have you received those memos . No. In fact we got a communication yesterday. Email just two lines. Basically telling us that they would not provide those documents given the fact there was a special counsel in place. I spoke with fbi dirichter, mr. Comey, day before yesterday. We add one on one conversation and i know he spoke with Elijah Cummings as well. He and i, Elijah Cummings and i, and the Democratic Committee and the presence of the special counsel didnt say that didnt cut it off saying would he never come, he said he wanted to speak to mr. Mueller before committing to any sort of public testimony. That seemed it make sense to me and i hope it is fair to represent that mr. Cummings understood that as well. I hope thats a fair representation. The other thing is we want to see the documents. We believe congress has a role to play. We also dont want to impede investigation by special counsel. We are trying to find our way without impeding what special counsel is trying to do. Did comey tell you i wrote those contemporaneous memos with the president . No, he didnt. In fact i said, we have heard reports about these documents. Are they at the department of justice or are they with him personally . Because remember, even the New York Times reporter who put this stuff, original story out there, no one has seen these documents. Were assuming that they are are there, but i havent seen that they are there. Im kept skal askeptical and wa them ourselves. But director comey wouldnt answer that question. He would not confirm where they are, what their presence, if there was a presence of these documents, he would not say a word about that. And you know, i asked him directly but he would not say. He wouldnt confirm nor deny those memos exist . I didnt ask him that way. I asked him if the documents were at the department of justice, or if they were with him personally. And he said he did not want to comment about that in any way shape or form. Will your Committee Subpoena those memos . Theres always a potential of using a subpoena but weve got to see how this plays out. What i do think the department of justice owes house of representatives specifically are committee on oversight is an explanation as to why they are not providing these documents. It isnt good enough to just offer two sentences and say, hey, theres special counsel. Were not letting congress do its job. We have a constitutional duty. If i have to send another letter tomorrow, getting them to get them to more fully explain that, we will. But i would hope the department of justice would do the right thing and provide a full explanation as to why they think congress shouldnt be able to see these. Did you ask director comey if there were white house tapes . I did not. Is he upset about being fired . Could you tell base owned your conversation with him . We had a little personal interaction there that i thought we both add smile on our face and, look, in my opinion, my interaction, hes been very open, very forthright. And i appreciate him getting on the phone with us. We will obviously have more interaction with him, at least the committee will, going forward. But you know, i wanted to know directly whether or not he would come testify at a hearing that we were supposed to do today. And in between my email or tweet i put out, and where we are going, he basically we add special counsel put in place which creates a whole different equation from where we were a week ago. Did you get any reaction . Did you mention the reports that president told the russians, he thought kooecomey, that he was t job . Did he react to that comment from the president . No. We spent about 30 minutes the phone, very cordial call, very accessible. As the chairman, i do appreciate that. Nevertheless, Congress Needs to see the documents without impeding special counsel and what they are doing. We will have to find the way as to what the right timing of that is. I think it is also important, even though im departing congress at end of june, that house of representatives continue on. They have to provide oversight, not only of this but of special counsel. Special counsel didnt get to continue without oversight. Thats what congress is supposed to do on both the house and senate. We will have to figure out a way to do that. Did you talk at all about the other reports that president asked him to shut down the entire investigation . I did not talk to director comey about that. Obviously we would like to see whats in these notes. Not only to see what is the written word of mr. Comey, supposedly, but also then event ofly to talk to mr. Comey to get his perspective on how he took it. It is one thing to see something written down but another to talk to someone and say was that threatening. It was derogatory. That was just set in jest . . I dont know. You have it see mr. Comeys side of it. And there is another side of the story that needs to be flushed out at some point too. Your colleague on overside committee, Elijah Cummings w, says general flynn made false statements about his foreign work to pentagon investigators. Can you confirm that . Well, what we did do, as a number of weeks ago, is we sent to the secretary of the army, a request for a final determination. We believe, at least through our investigation, what we had seen and quite frankly not seen swb that general flynn, again, more than a year ago, back during the Obama Administration, when he took money for appearances from the russians and also in turkey, that he was supposed to seek permission and receive permission in order to take payments. We see no such paperwork. We cant prosecute people in the house of representatives, they dont give us handcuffs. So we refer that to the department of the army for their final determination. But that was weeks ago. If he is filling out new forms with the pentagon, with the army, or whom ever, shouldnt he be up front and reveal all those specific contacts he had, money he received from Foreign Governments . Well, interestingly enough, the permission or granting of security clearance was done by the Obama Administration. But you need additional security clearance once you leave the National Security adviser. Yes. He may have received security clearances from the army, from the Defense Intelligence agency, during the Obama Administration, but the president , President Trump wanted him to be his top National Security adviser, that required him filling out all sorts of new forms. And that was done evidently during the Obama Administration. There are a number of obama era relationships or obama era personnel. It begs the question, why did not Obama Administration approve his security clearance . The answer is that security clearances are different than the very intense vetting, separate vetting you need to become National Security adviser to the president. Yes, he had security clearances, once director of Defense Intelligence agency, threestar general. He obviously had security clearance us but you need a separate round of vetting to become National Security adviser to the president. Yes. And that was done in the Obama Administration. No, no, no yes, wolf show me the documents. If you think the answer to that if you think you have the answer and i dont yb th, t share it with me. We did parties nate a classified briefings. And mr. Cummings was sitting right at my side. I think i got a pretty good briefing on this. And that is really the Obama Administration. Your colleague, congressman cummings, he is calleding on you to subpoena those white house documents, specific white house documents, as far as vetting of general flynn is concerned. Are you ready to do that . No, im not. We sat through a classified briefing on this topic. I really cant say much more than that. Why not look at documents just to doublecheck . Im telling you i sat through a classified briefing on this. Why not get the dock snmumen . We can go back and forth. I told you i did sit through the briefing on this. But documents might not be shared during classified briefings and sometimes the briefers dont report everything as far as the documentary evidence might provide. Given that i was in the meeting and you were not, with all due respect, that is not snag i am going to subpoena at this moment. Im not. We got a cla