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And three, new reporting about with russian officials boasting about their links to trump aides. back with me, malcolm nance, matt welsh and jason johnson. malcolm, the justice department says sessions failed to share the information he met with russian officials. this isn't necessarily a surprise. this is the reason he had to recuse himself two months ago. so what's the big ah-ha here. he didn't think it was an issue then. >> it's a question of documentation. we actually -- they actually have a copy of the sf-86 or confirmed the s-86 -- sf-86 security floor he deliberately withheld. that is i...

Allegation by elijah cummings that they have evidence he lied to the people interviewing him when he was getting a security clearance review. how big a deal is that? >> it's a big deal for two reasons. the first one is the pragmatic one. it's potentially a crime. if he did this knowingly and there was an intent to sort of cover something up here. the second one is, on the counterintelligence side. when someone purposefully misleads something in regards to an sf-86, this form that is a security back ground questionnaire, if you have a counterintelligence officer, it raises a red flag, besides f...

Beltway. according to reports, he said he didn't have significant contact with foreign nationals when he had dinner next to vladimir putin. when i filled out my sf-86 for clearance renewal, i was detailing academics i met from other countries. i think i probably would have mentioned dinner with vladimir putin. those type of things can result in crimes, but that's still a bit removed from the president. i think what we end up with is very disturbing patterns here. he is it seems trying to derail this investigation. but if we need to tie it to a crime, it's going to have to be a little more conc...

Contempt and ask this special prosecutor. that's who it would probably be. or it could go to the main justice department to enforce the contempt citation. >> the letter from congressman cummings to chairman jason chaffetz includes in part. the problem with your argument and that would be to jason chaffetz's argument is that the committee has in possession, documents that appear to indicate that general flynn lied to investigators who interviewed him in 2016 as part of a security clearance renewal. lying to investigators is not good for him, is it? >> you know, it's very serious. particularly f...

District of virginia in alexandria, but you also have senate intelligence community. he's not getting immunity and now they are issuing subpoenas to flynn's business associates. he has a corporation in virginia, the flynn intel group. so the fact is the evidence is building and building. the chance of michael flynn ever getting immunity i think is virtually impossible because you have four federal laws including registration, potential obstruction, lying to the fbi purportedly he interviewed have the fbi on january 24th and what is called the sf-86, which is the formed where he had to disclose...