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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...

The pentagon and their military documents led them to believe that nothing in this process of michael flynn, renewing his security clearance or getting one or becoming national security adviser provided the necessary documentation that he had actually received these payments and had this activity with russians or even with turkey. the problem is that if there is that documentation and that could exonerate flynn, then the white house, we would think, would provide it. so in their response saying we answered these questions, ridiculous to ask, plus it was during the transition, nobody has those ...

Skeptics. their indifference into the entire russian meddling has worried people all along. that's why republicans like senator marco rubio and senator lindsey graham say we should be concerned. why do republicans look away from this when it should be a bipartisan concern? so if you combine that in difference with the fact that now they look like they're stonewalling, it's more of a headache making the investigation more consequential and bring more heat, drag it out through the months when he's trying to accomplish big ticket items. he's exacerbating a situation that maybe he colluded and he'...

Department of defense had. >> let's get to kristen welker at the white house. so you have accusations of stone walling here, the white house saying hey, don't look at us, we did everything well could. take us through both sides of it here. >> reporter: there are two key arguments that the white house is making. one, they say that the oversight committee requested documents related to the vetting process of michael flynn. they say that that process effectively took place under the obama administration. so their argument is hey, look, we don't actually have those documents in our possession. but...

Team, he's stone walling with his own team. >> i think, frankly they have a cooling off period. remember, the investigation is going on -- >> they're not children in a time out are they? >> committee hearings should not be confused with investigating. investigating is going on on some level a at the fbi. >> we just had the conversation from the committee saying that the -- >> it's the oversight of it. >> what investigation are you talking about? because devin nunes seems to want to be investigating the unmasking and the incidental collection, and other people are saying, we're not saying that'...