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On november 18th, 2016, elijah cummings wrote to then president-elect mike pence, head of the transition team, about the reports of incoming national security advisor michael flynn receiving payments from the government of turkey and payment to travel to moscow and appear with vladimir putin. >> flynn relation centered as a foreign agent in march after being forced out for his contact with the russian ambassador. but also last november elijah cummings wrote to pence asking him for information about president-elect trump's request to let son-in-law jared kushner accompany him to the highly clas...

To defense department investigators. but, his answers about this trip were very, very vague and now congressional investigators, some of the leaders on the hill want to know exactly why he was there. some of the things that he has told investigators, some of the things he said publicly are not adding up. there's also another trip that congressional leaders believe he may have taken in the summer of 2015, maybe in june, that he publicly talked about and "newsweek" reported on where he was in saudi arabia, working on a deal, a nuclear energy deal between russia and the u.s. they want to know exa...

That they failed to even check out at the basic level. >> another story first reported by cnn last night and now by other organizations as the attorney general of the needs when getting his security clearance did not list on the form where it asks if you've ever met with foreign entities, did not list he had a campaign year meeting he says in his capacity as a senator with the russian ambassador. remember he didn't disclose that to congress either and congress was mad about that. now the department of justice says this is their explanation, in filling out the sf 86 form, that's the security cl...

Attorney general jeff sessions this morning facing more scrutiny over his ties to russia. the department of justice has confirmed to cnn that sessions did not disclose meetings he had with russian officials when he applied for his security clearance. now a top democrat is calling for a new investigation into sessions. >> all this as the fired national security adviser, michael flynn, refuses to hand over requested documents to house lawmakers. the house intelligence committee is now preparing to subpoena michael flynn. let's bring in congresswoman jackie speier. she's on the house intelligence...

>> but they'll also do a political vetting. what articles did you write? did you write any articles that might cause embarrassment to the white house. but the most important thing really is this sf-86, the security clearance form. in the case of general flynn you mentioned he would have had to reup. it's not entirely clear. off times someone like him coming out of the government, he was director of the defense intelligence agency. >> right at the top. >> it's a really important job. and oftentimes even if it's a new administration, they want to have access to that person to be able to pull the...