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Built for business. a clayton: welcome back. quick headlines for you. five years after the costa concordia disaster. the captain heads to jail. the former captain of the italian cruise liner turns himself in to police. 16 year sentence for the accident that killed 32 people. chelsea manning, the former army intelligence analyst accused of leaking information locked up. demanding a sex change and being freed early by president obama will finally walk out of prison this week. manning already making plans for the big day told the guardian she can't wait to smell the fresh air and go swimming. joh...

Conservative democrat to listen to the tapes and fine off on white house-produced transcripts, when that didn't happen and the special prosecutor said i won't take that, he had him fired. what we don't know right now is the extent to which the criminal division and the counterintelligence division of the fbi somewhere had their investigation affected at all by the white house. >> do you know if there's been any obstruction -- >> that's the key. if there is obstruction of justice, this is definitely nixonian. >> what do you see congressman kingston? >> this is silly. i really think that. this i...

What general flynn had done and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the vice president and others, because in the media accounts it was clear for the vice president and others they were repeating what general flynn had told them. and that this was a problem because not only do we believe that the russians knew this but they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser, essentially, could be blackmailed by the russians. >> well, this morning president trump tried to distract from yates' testimony ...

>> that conduct is not treated by the u.s. government as criminal conduct. i've been asked in other context, isn't it true that the espionage statute has no carve out for journalists, that's true, but in my life time, the department has been news gathering and legitimate news covering is not covered and it will not be investigated or prosecuted as a criminal act. that's how it's thought of. >> so an investigative reporter celebrating the libertes at the washington post or at the lincoln journal star or "the new york times" trying to talk to people in the ic and getting the maximum amount of in...

Classified? >> that conduct is not treated by the u.s. government as criminal conduct. i've been asked another context, isn't it true that the sp nonce statute has no -- in my lifetime, the department of view has been newsgathering is not going to be investigated or prosecuted as a criminal act. >> an investigative reporter taking advantage of and celebrate in the liberties that we have under the first amendment at "the washington post" ," "the new york times," trying to talk to people in the ic can get the maximum amount of information that they possibly can out of them to inform the public. ...