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Vulnerability to russian blackmail. attorney general sessions misled this committee about his contacts and had to change his testimony. the president's son-in-law failed to disclose contacts on his security clearance forms. do you have or did you have any concerns about the attorney general, about other trump officials vulnerability to blackmail? >> all of this information came to light after i was no longer with doj. >> do you have you have concerns why you were doj that general flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail? >> yes, i did and expressed those to the white house. >> you said while you...

Flynn's vulnerability to russian blackmail. attorney general sessions misled this committee about his contacts and had to change his testimony. the president's son-in-law and senior adviser also reported he failed to disclose contacts on his security clearance forms. do you have, or did you have, any concerns about the attorney general, about mr. kushner or other trump officials' vulnerability to blackmail? thi-- all of this information came to light after i was no longer with doj. >> did you have concerns, though, while you were at doj that general flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail? >> y...

>> we have no evidence, zilch that he obtained permission from the secretary of the army and the secretary of state to accept any foreign government payments as required by law. >> reporter: new documents show the pentagon warned retired general michael flynn in 2014 about accepting foreign payments, suggesting he failed to get permission to travel to moscow. >> thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. >> reporter: where he was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2015 by the kremlin-backed news station rt where he also dined with verplank. now the defense department's inspector g...

With vladimir putin. now the defense department is announcing its own investigation into whether flynn broke the law this after he allegedly failed to disclose foreign payments on a security clearance forms, a potential felony. >> do you believe that he may have broken the law? >> i don't know whether he did or did not. that's why we have an investigation. >> reporter: but the house oversight committee's investigation is now breaking down along party lines with democrats accusing the white house of stone walling. >> i do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn? i do...

Clearance needs to be other suspended or revoked. >> if that doesn't happen, what will be your next move as a member of congress? >> you know, if we take back the house in a year-and-a-half, we will open investigations to try to force him to do that. in the meantime, i hope some republicans come to their senses and understand the gravity of what happened here. where you have a senior-level white house official lying about his security clearance form on the issue of russia. >> it sounds like you are making a campaign issue. are you saying that if democrats take back the house of representatives...