As a new report in the Washington Free beacon claims that flynns departure was the work of former president obama loyalists, hoping to keep the iran deal intact, a deal that flynn detectives. Detested. They are alleged repeated contacts with russian intelligence. While all this was playing out today, Navy Vice AdmiralRobert Harvard is expected to be the new National Security advisor. He could report for duty as early as friday. Congressman Jason Jay Fitz is here tonight to announce a new investigation and the wake of this new story. Now, we turn to catherine herridge. Good evening. Thank you, martha. In the last 10 minutes, the republican Chuck Grassley at Dianne Feinstein sending this letter to the attorney general and fbi director. Seeking the content of the National Former security advisor flynn. Information about protect all my potential links about information, as the president blamed politics in the media for his National Security advisors exit. People are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under Hillary Clinton. I think it is very, very unfair, what has happened to general flynn, the way he was treated, and the documents and papers that were illegally i stress that illegally leaked. Also come out later today, naming the middle east on harvard as flynns replacement. The Trump Administration having the it hoping it will blunt further comments. Fox news is contacting former intelligence an Obama Administration officials separately and directly. In the meantime, the Washington Free beacon reports that ben rhodes is the center of the iran deal and the benghazi terrorist attacks is the main driver of the leaks. There is no further comments from him tonight. Writing on twitter earlier this week, he said, when Campaign Chairman and National Security advisor both resigned over russia ties, there is more. Paul manafort and flynn had nothing in common, except russia end of term. A government source confirmed that the fbi investigation does go beyond flynn. It also includes contacts between the Trump Campaign tweets and russian officials leading up to the election. We are told that the fbi does not see evidence that any laws were broken, martha. Just be one that is one of the highlights. Thank you very much. My next guest has big news can share to share concerning general michael flynn. Utah congressman jason chaffetz. Chairman of the House Oversight committee. Good to have you here this evening. A lot buzzing this evening about investigations. What can you tell us . What we are going to do is send a letter to the Inspector General. The mishandling of classified information is something we have been keenly concerned about in a variety of settings. Not only the president communications, the National Security advisor, again, it happened before the president was sworn in. You cant mishandle classified information. We want to the Inspector General to dive into that issue, as he can do with the department of justice and look under the hood and find the truth behind this. Martha what are you digging and for . Are you trying to figure out whether general flynn was translating any confidential information to the russians prior to the election . We asked the Inspector General asking how the information ends up in the news media. If you have classified information, since sense of see information, there are policies for handling that. The president has made serious allegations and concerns in his description of the movement of this information. We want the Inspector General, michael horowitz, rightly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a person of great integrity to find this out. No matter where you are in the political spectrum, you cannot have classified information migrating out into a nonclassified setting. If there has been something that has been mishandled, we want them to look out. Martha to be clear, you are looking at it on both sides of the equation. A lot of people see you and they equate you with a Hillary Clinton investigation. You were very concerned that classified information may have passed from her hands, dealings with russia, we talked about at that time. You would apply that same measure to general flynn as well . Yes. We also sent a separate letter to the white house, concerned about what the visuals that we saw the president in maralago, again, classified information, mishandled there. I think the standard is still the same. You have a duty and obligation. By its very nature, if classified information gets out there, it can harm somebody. It can kill somebody. This is serious stuff. There are some questions and concerns about how in florida did they have the proper security protocols set up, and place, to deal with that classified information. Same with Hillary Clinton, same with donald trump, and same with those in the intelligence world for the department of justice to see this information. They just cant handed out like candy and favors to those in the news media. Martha what about President Trumps assertion that he thinks is it is a criminal act, in terms of the way this information, particularly, he is somebody that you would like to talk to . Do you expect to have hearings of this . Bring in people from the Obama Administration . The fair way to do it, to make sure that you get to the truth in an impartial way is to make sure that the Inspector General is leading out. They have tools, they have access. To give you an idea, and all the federal government, there are 72 Inspector Generals. They have 13,000 employees. The department of justice alone has roughly 500 people working there. As the Inspector General to get in there and find the truth. Martha you want them to go first, then, you will likely follow up later. Chairman chaffetz, thank you very much. Joining us now with more, marc thiessen, fellow at the American Enterprise institute and fox news contributor. Austan goolsbee and mara liasso mara liasson. Welcome to all of you. Good to have you here tonight. Let me start with you. What is your reaction to the Inspector General call from chairman chaffetz . It is interesting. Congress will investigate this. I want to say, the first time on this show for me, im glad to be here with two people i really respect a lot. [laughter] congress is looking into this and to some extent, republicans are investigating this even though they didnt want to be investigating their own president. Chaffetz is looking into one aspect of it. They are a lot of investigations that are happening on capitol hill. I think its a good thing. I think there are so many questions about this whole story that dont make sense. Npr has found out that so far, nobody has uncovered evidence of criminal wrongdoing, so, the question is why would flynn lie to mike pence or mislead him about what he said . Doesnt make sense. As far as im concerned, more light can be shed on this. Martha marc thiessen, obviously, the same measure that was applied to Hillary Clinton needs to be applied to this case, no . Oh, absolutely. Lets pull back and look at the Bigger Picture besides just the flynn story. In the last 25 days, think about the leaks coming out of the white house and the executive branch. We have had the classified transcripts of three conversations with three different world leaders, the Prime Minister of australia, mexico, russia, all leaked. We have had more than a halfdozen draft executive orders, including some of them dealing with highly classified things like terrorist interrogation leaked to the press. Weve learned that general mattis was considering interdicting an iranian ship. We learned that they are considering sending troops to syria, all classified information leaked to the press. We have the fact that one of general flynns deputies was leaked to the press. And at in addition to the flynn information, leaks, classified information going to the press. When people say we are worried about donald trump creating an authoritarian state, i am worried about the authoritarian application of a National Security apparatus going after people they dont like, whos policies they oppose by leaking classified information. Martha as a suggestion, austan, some sort of shadowy entity out there that is trying to reveal these things, phone calls between the president and foreign leaders. If any member of the former Obama Administration is involved in such a thing, do you want those feet held to the fire . Lets take a step back and recognize the irony and absurdity of a lot of these charges. First, the irony. For donald trump to be saying that his biggest objection is over the illegal leaks, when throughout the campaign, he is the guy that asked russia tomaie them for Hillary Clinton, and wanted to do nothing more than to discuss what was in all of the wikileaks documents, that is quite ironic. That was not classified. Second, the fact that you are seeing leaks in every aspect of the white house, from National Security to Economic Policy to personnel, suggests very strongly it is not one person who is doing the leaking. There is chaos taking place. Martha which is precisely why we need to look at both sides of the equation. From any one of the trump camp to russia or anyone in the former obama camp to the public. Both sides. I applaud congressman chaffetz for investigating why they are having classified briefings in the dining hall at maralago martha if that happened. People taking photographs of their phones on it. They should investigate all of those. But donald trump is a most serious issue, which is when the smoke alarms are going off and there is smoke coming out of the doors, he has not been in washington crises before. He is taking a privatesector approach to to crisis management, which is, circle the wagons, release nothing, dont give them any information. The problem with that is if you dont release everything you have right now, tax returns, who talked to who in the campaign, with russian intelligence officials, giving explanations, if you dont do that, it will be drip, drip, just like hillarys emails. Martha they are never, ever going to stop unless there is clarity on both sides. Mara, thank you so much. Austan, thank you. Marc, thank you. Coming up, the media coming to extreme lengths to compare general flynns oust with some of the countrys darkest moments in history. Is that fair . We will show you some of the reactions would ben shapiro and Richard Fowler join us in our media conflict segment. 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Ben shapiro, editorinchief of the daily wire. Com and Richard Fowler, nationally syndicated radio host and fox news contributor. Gentlemen, i hope you are hunkered down because this is big, big, big. Ben, what you make all of that . Everybody sounds like a used car salesman trying to hawk an old chevy. Wow. The level of outrage over something that we dont even know what happened yet. I am confused as to what flynn did that was supposed to be the worst thing that happened since the bill biblical plagues Thomas Friedman and dan rather, the godfather of modern media fake news, talking about how this is the greatest prices we have seen in modern political history, again, what happened . Should be know what happened before we freak out and lose our minds . Martha an excellent question, richard, when you dig into the New York Times piece, which started off declaring that there had been so much contact between the Trump Campaign and russia that it was just so dramatic in the nature of it that they just had to dig and dig. Then, they dug dog and dog and d anything at all in terms of a nefarious connection. They may but we dont know that he had. Martha, you are right. We dont know. I think the media is being rough. I think the reason why the media is being so rough as everything to do with the fact that the circle the wagons of the havent released any information. A little bit of advice for the donald if he is watching, the first thing you do is you release these transcripts to the intelligence committee. They will get a classified come over with. He will be Political Capital martha i remember when that argument was used for Hillary Clinton. It is the right argument to get it all out there. He will need Political Capital to roll out his infrastructure package, to roll out the tax reforms. Right now, 90 of republicans like him. If this drip, drip continues, martha, it could create doom for the Trump Administration just 30 days then. Martha put up these headlines that we have. The story broke a month ago. It was out there, intercepted russian communication, part of inquiry into trump associates. That story back then, a Washington Post story said that they didnt find anything nefarious. It didnt find connection between the communications. They just found that there was phone calls and contact that they were concerned about. Sally yates brought that to the attention of the white house, as well. I want to remind everyone of this moment with president obama a wild back. Watch this. After my election, i have more questions. Martha after the election, we might be able to talk about that issue that is bothering you. Is that essentially what we think general flynn may have said . I think that is basically the idea. The only difference being that president obama was in the middle of an election cycle and flynn a said edge after the cycle was order. You are getting a lot of advice to donald trump, i agree with the advice you are suggesting, but some of advice for the media. If you want people to take you seriously, you have to stop resetting your hair on fire and running into plate glass windows before you know what is going on. You are jumping on every rake in a 300mile radius before you let the fact out. We cant take you seriously unless you lay o