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>>reporter: again, in previous interviews he insisted the u.s. sanctions were not discussed. of course again we now know from this flynn that they were discussed. they wanted them to have a moderate response to the -- what was then the most recent round of u.s. sanctions against russia and the answer came back in the affirmative that because of that flynn request, russia had taken a moderate line on its response to the what were then the latest u.s. sanctions against russia. >> thank you for that report. coming up here on the cnn news room a retired u.s. general has said michael flynn has le...

We've also got the flynn request for immunity, so if there's no story out here and if the director of the fbi took the public step that there is and the subject at the center of this says i ain't talking because i'm afraid to come clean, i can tell you who i'm voting with. having served with the fbi i'm voting with the fbi. there's not smoke here, there's fire. >> just to add to phil's point we also know for a fact that flynn came up in the conversation -- according to the comey memo, that flynn came up in the conversation between comey and the president of the united states, and he asked him ...

Cooperation voluntarily but we are prepared to subpoena as necessary to get materials and information we need. so we've agreed to the process. we've begun in terms of our witness list, to actually invite those people before the committee. and i think it is important, we're going to try to do as much as we can agree on in public. i feel very strongly about that. i think if we conduct this investigation wholly in a privately closed session, and then tell public to believe what we've come up with, that's not likely to have public confidence. so i'm very pleased with where we are. i think we're ba...