This morning rage tweeting. He is now accusing president barack obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. There was no such wiretap activity. Will the president apologize to president obama . Lets not get ahead of ourselves. I have no Information Tha it raise as profound question why they were not directly provided to the white house. Michael flynn is asking for immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony in the russiatrump scandal. This morning tweeted mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is the a witchhunt. Is the white house concerned that general flynn has damaging information about what occurred during the campaign a with respect to russia . Nope. No. Well see. Good evening. Good evening. Im joy reid in for lawrence odonnell. Welcome the our special edition of the last word. March madness, the month it was. A new poll today found literally 1 3 americans give donald j. Trump an f for his performance in office in the first 71 days. Much of that letter grade has been earned in the unbelievably historic and at times hysterical month it was. It began with trump accusing president obama of tapping his wires in trump tower. And days later in a very public humiliation of the president , fbi director james comey was compelled to say there is no evidence to support the trump claim. And oh, by the way the fbi is investigating the Trump Campaign for possible collusion with the russians to tip the 2016 election in their favor. Then there is the oneman drama that is House Intelligence Committee chairman and former trump transition member republican devin nunes. He tried to help trump find evidence to backhis surveillance claims and instead triggered a torrent of questions about him. Like why is he working with the Trump White House instead of investigating it . And who let him on to white house grounds . Its a story so strange that even fellow republicans today say they couldnt write this novel. And we havent even yet mentioned the debacle that was the defeat of trumpcare. Over the course of the next hour, well bring you a team of experts. Well get to the bottom of what happened today. What is the next shoe to drop . And with donald trump at war with the Intel Community and with his own party, what, if anything can he do to stop the serial crises engulfing the white house . We begin with new developments hat is arguably the most stunning new story of the month. Donald trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn seeking immunity in order to testify to the house and senate Intelligence Committees. The president defended Michael Flynns immunity requests saying mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witchhunt excuse for a big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion. Sean spicer later explained the president was only trying to convey his desire to see Michael Flynn testify. Back in december, you said if you are guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for does the president think mike flynn is guilty of a crime . I think he believes that mike flynn should go testify. He thinks he should go up there and do what he has to do to get the story out. With or without immunity . Thats up to him and his lawyer to decide. Do whatever you have to do to go up to make it clear what happened. Take whatever precaution you want or however your Legal Counsel advises you. Nbc news was first to report that the senate Intelligence Committee is not willing to make an immunity offer to Michael Flynn. At least not yet. A senior congressional official said Michael Flynns lawyer was told it was wildly preliminary, and that immunity was not on the table at the moment. And the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff said, quote, there is still much work and many more witnesses and documents to obtain before any immunity request from any witness can be considered. But the congressman also ominously said this. We should first acknowledge what a grave and momentous step it is for a former National Security adviser to the president of the United States to ask for immunity from prosecution. Congressman schiff finally went to the white house grounds to review those intelligence documents that prompted house intelligence chairman devin nunes of to hold his stunning press conference last week. Meanwhile, chairman nunes is trying to knock down reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post that his sources for those intelligence documents came from the trump administration. Those reports are mostly wrong. There is there are this is something that ive known about for a very long time. From people who were not affiliated at all with the white house or anybody there. The challenge was finding a place to be able to view this information, to be able to get my hands on this information. So i think whats in the stories is there is a lot of innuendo. There are people that probably knew about this. Knew about me being there. But the fact of the matter is that doesnt make them the source of my information. Well, an exclusive interview uthat is airing on a. M. Joy saturday and sunday, nancy pelosi had tough words for devin nunes. Lets talk about devin nunes who is leading the House Intelligence Community at the moment. Do you think he has creditability . No. I think he not only has lost all credibility, i think he has tarnished the office that he holds. He has brought discredit to something that is a very, very serious position in the congress. And joining us now are michael isikoff, chief investigative reporter. He has interviewed devin nunes in the past. David corn and an msnbc political analyst. And tim mak, Senior Correspondent for the daily beast. Tim mak, devin nunes tried to explain away what he did. He did this interview in which he is trying to say that he going to the white house to view those intelligence documents was perfectly normal, despite the fact that he did it in the dead of night. Here is devin nunes. I held a press conference and said here is what i found. It has nothing to do with russia. And im going to go over to the white house now and im going to brief the president. So thats not sneaking around. Thats not hiding from anyone. Thats being very transparent. Maybe too transparent in this case. Because i could have just snuck over to the white house and went in quietly and told the president and nobody would have known about this. But i thought it was best that the American People know. Tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of an Intelligence Committee, to go into the white house to view anything this way, the way that nunes did it . Not at all. I talked to a lot of folks who have worked on the House Intelligence Committee. It is extremely unusual to go to the white house to view documents. Now its regular procedure to good to the fbi, to go to the nsa, the cia to review executive branch documents. But it is very, very unusual to get a white house grounds seemingly in the middle of the night in order to meet with sources and review documents. Now the chairmans story changes every single time he makes a statement. First it was that trump himself was incidentally connected. Then maybe thats not right. And then im not actually sure exactly what i saw and will have to review the documents. He said he wanted a Serious Investigation into the extent of russias ties if there exist any. The extent of russias ties to the campaign. It appears he is not all that interested. Every time the chairman speaks about russia, his story on this changes. And david corn, it appears that the Ranking Member on the Committee Adam Schiff is clear what he saw. He saw apparently the same documents in white house to. This is what he had to say today. Nothing i could see today warranted a departure from the normal procedures, and these materials should now be provided to the full membership of both committees. The white house has yet to explain why senior white house staff apparently shared these materials with but one member of either committee, only for their contents to be briefed back to the white house. David corn, it appears that the Ranking Member is not confused about what he saw. No. He is a former federal prosecutor. He knows how to handle document secrets and how to deal with other Government Agencies doing an investigation. Which nunes doesnt seem to have my awareness of how to proceed. Ooh think about this, joy. He has gone from being basically the chairman of an investigation to someone who should be a witness in the investigation. Thats just not a good narrative arc for him. Yeah. And, you know, the story has changed. The story about what is in the documents changed the first three or four times he told the story. We still have no idea there is anything in those documents that really warrant investigation. Schiff said no. But that they may just have been minor injuries. And yet you see day after day the white house, sean spicer and other people who are trying to divert attention from the real thing, the russian connection going on about how this is a gigantic Civil Liberties case, as if they ever cared than. And still nobody ever than nunes has come forward and said there is even a problem here. And michael isikoff, lets talk a little bit about Michael Flynns situation. This very preemptive request for immunity from either of the committees of the fbi. Youve interviewed Michael Flynn before. His counsel had this very interesting tweet. Back in november tweeted the following. A prediction. Donald trump will make novel and unusual use of the president s pardon power, an underutilized tool of political power. That may mean nothing at all. But what do you see in this very preemptive request for immunity from Michael Flynn . Well, look, its really hard to say at this point. Because Michael Flynn has potential exposure on multiple grounds. Many of which are not directly related to the central focus of this investigation. His work for turkey, which he retroactively registers with the Justice Department only in march for work he was getting paid half a Million Dollars with starting in august. You know, there are potential Foreign Agent registration act issues there. There is the whole question of the money he had gotten from rt and russia when he went to moscow. Did he disclose all that . Did he disclose it as part of his security clearance form . We dont know whether this request for immunity is because he is concerned about something involving his conversations with kislyak or the Russian Investigation or something else. Its really hard to ultimately at this point say where this goes. But, but i got to say, at the end of the day, if the committee is are going to do their job, theyve got to hear from Michael Flynn. Well, the thing is e is the oneness, he is the one witness who was centrally involved during the campaign on National Security measures with russia and was talking to President Trump and can answer a key question. When he had those conversations with kislyak, was he authorized by the president elect to have them . Or was he freelancing acting on his own . The thing is, though, the thing is though, a request for immunity is not necessarily any indication that youve done anything wrong. You can talk to democrats or republicans in the house and senate Intelligence Committee. Absolutely. I was just talking to a democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee congressman mike quickly. He is no fan of flynn. And he is certainly interested in getting to the bottom of these ties. He said, look, i may not particularly like flynn, but i cant look at this request for immunity as any sort of indictment or any sort of admission of guilt. And furthermore, he predicted the House Intelligence Committee is going to be like the senate Intelligence Committee. He thought it was unlikely they were going to give any immunity to Michael Flynn. Often what you have in the cases, those of us old enough to remember, like michael and a, you go back to the iran contra days, there was a big debate whether the communities would give immunity to oliver north while the fbi and was investigating him. Mike quigley is reasonable. Mike and i would be reasonable and say this is no indication of guilt. It was donald trump who said, you know, just a couple months ago, why do you need immunity for unless you have done something wrong. And there are and also, but i think a key thing to add to what mike just said is the conversations that flynn had with kislyak and maybe other russians before the election. There is indications that he did talk to the ambassador before that while the hacking and the leaking perhaps were going on. Was he sending any signs to the russians . Youll get a deal with us which would give them incentive to carry out this covert operation. Yep. And mike, lets stop the question about whether or not that is illegal. But go on. Lets stipulate theyre not going to have testimony from kislyak. Right. At the end of the day, they might be. And whether theyll ever get them and be able to disclose them is a whole another matter. I think at the end of the day, it is likely he probably will get immunity from the committees. And as we know from the case of john dean, back during watergate, that doesnt necessarily mean you wont be prosecuted just because you get immunity from the congress. So ticktock. Its going to be very interesting. David corn, tim mak, and michael isikoff, thanks very much for joining us. Sure thing. Thank you. Coming up next, early in the month, as attorney general Jeff Sessions was being accused of perjury, donald trump took to twitter to put out that fire by starting another. And of course he did it by returning to his birther roots and accusing his old them miss, president barack obama of something that isnt true. Remember this classic . Three weeks ago i thought he was born in this country. Right now have i real doubts. Have i people that have been studying it. And theyre not believing what they are finding. You have people down there searching in hawaii . Absolutely. 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I dont think there was an actual tap of trump tower. Going to take the tweets literally. And if you are, clearly the president was wrong. Wait a minute, there is a lot of wiretapping being talked about. Ive been seeing a lot of things. Said president obama ordered wiretaps on trump tower. What do you believe . No. Thats what i said. Weve cleared that up. Weve seen no evidence of that. As far as wiretapping by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps. The department has no Information That supports those tweets. He said that there is no information to support the allegations that the president made against president obama. At this time. As chairman nunes mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings. This is Information That was brought to me that i thought the president needed t