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Presidential advisers, people that are close to the president, there are issues of what's called executive privilege. the advisers to the president need to feel like they can speak candidly, they can give their honest opinions about a wide range of issues without fear of having to later testify to congress about every piece of advice they gave to the president or the campaign. that's why there is the theory of executive privilege. but as we learned during the watergate scandal in the nixon administration, the claims of executive privilege are not infallible themselves. >> may, in and of itself...

National convention, and he didn't include those interactions on the security form, which requires him to, quote, list any contact he had with family -- he had or his family had with a foreign government or his represent representatives over the past seven years. and you'll remember, with don, that sessions failed to disclose these meetings and that led to his recusal from all matters involving the russian investigation. >> how serious is it that jeff sessions omitted his two meetings with the russian ambassador on his application for a security clearance km. >> i think what's serious is, is t...

Investigators who interviewed him back in 2016 as part of his renewal. cummings cited the 2016 report in which flynn allegedly said he was paid by, quote, u.s. companies for his december 2015 appearance in moscow alongside russian president vladimir putin. when the actual source of the funds was rt, identified in the director of national intelligence as hacking report as, quote, the kremlin's principle international propaganda outlet. a u.s. official tells nbc news he left blank a line on his security form asking him to disclose any business relationships or transactions with foreign entities....

Have such leverage even today. >> to say nothing of the fact he was working for turkey and didn't disclose that. they knew about it only because he had published on election day, he wrote a column in the hill newspaper advocating for the return to erdogan and turkey of the cleric in pennsylvania, and it was a strange column for him to write. that's when the trump transition, i'm told, began to look into, why was he writing this? so they were aware also of the payments from turkey before he was hired. >> andrea, can i add? there were four instances in when mike flynn didn't disclose anything im...

Security officers, he was abetted by the folks that do everyone, if mike flynn lied on his forms, he's in real serious trouble. there should be higher standard standards. chris is exactly right, he should have been feted to national security visor not just what he put on his fs 86 form but by the fact that he had a very openly embraced vladimir putin. you don't need a security form to know that's a little shady. >> in defense of what you said, this is a guy at dia who warned barack obama explicitly in an intelligence report that was sent to the white house that if you withdraw from a rack and ...