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His testimony. Also breaking, cnn has learned the United States has determined that iran is using commercial freighters to move missiles. Thats based on multiple images that show areas of the ships decks have been removed, allowing them to dacarry hidden weapons. I will get reaction from david says lienee, who serves on the Aforeign Affairs committee. First, the new details of Michael Flynns cooperation with special counsel Robert Muellers team. Our senior justice correspondent evan perez is joining us, cnn National Legal analyst Susan Hennessy is with us as well. First of all, evan, what can you tell us . Wolf, the first time were hearing from the government just how valuable Michael Flynn has been to the special counsels investigation. Over 19 interviews the special counsel had with Michael Flynn and were getting some new details that were just unredacted in federal court. Among them the bits of information we have is that Michael Flynn was providing information to the special counsel about conversations people inside the Trump Campaign, People Associated with the trump transition, including information about conversations they were having about wikileaks and outreach to wikileaks, especially after those wikileaks emails started getting released. I will read you a piece of what one of the documents said. The defendant, thats flynn, relayed to the governments statements made in 2016 by Senior Campaign officials about wikileaks to which only a select few people were privy, for example, the defendant recalled conversations with Senior Campaign officials after the lease of the podesta emails, during which the prospect of reaching out to wikileaks was discussed. You will remember, wolf, this is a big part of the volume one of the special counsels report, the Mueller Report. And we now know Michael Flynn was a source of some of that information. We also learned from these newly redacted unredacted documents that there was some outreach from People Associated with the administration. We now know a little bit more about what that was. They were reaching out to Michael Flynn, to his legal team. According to this document was intended to help essentially affect what kind of cooperation mi Michael Flynn was providing to the special counsel. According to the special counsel, some of the information they did not have until Michael Flynn provided it to them and that includes a voicemail from what appears to be a member of the Trump Legal Team essentially talking a little bit about manufacture Michael Flynns cooperation. This is new information that could again shed new light on exactly what was going on behind the scenes, as part of the special counsels investigation into potential obstruction. And it underscores, wolf, why members of congress on capitol hill really want to hear from robert mueller, from people who were involved in the investigation. They want to know a little bit more about what went into the calculations of not making a decision on charging the president with obstruction. Theres a lot to unpack right now. Susan hennessy, what stands out to you . Youve been going through this as the most important revelations. I think one of the most important significant things is the reference to documentary evidence that might be in the hands of Michael Flynn. Already were seeing congress and the executive branch gear up to have a major confrontation over what information doj is ultimately going to produce. Not just the Mueller Report in unredacted form but also the underlying investigative materials. What a filing like this is really bread crumbs to congressional investigators. If there is a voicemail out there, if there are documents out there in the possession of Michael Flynn, congress now has the ability to actually reach out and subpoena those documents directly. The other thing that is potentially significant here is the Mueller Report only included evidence the special counsels office thought was relevant to whether or not, to prosecute or decline to prosecute a crime. Theres a big part of that story about what the campaign did, what it knew in response to wikileaks, other emails they might have been pursuing that the special counsel essentially didnt believe it. These 30,000 hacked emails from martin hrn Hillary Clintons certainer, what exactly the campaign did in that outreach, theres a big story that might be relevant to the American People and congress as they potentially consider impeachment inquiries but ultimately did not make it into that actual Mueller Report. Let me ask evan, what can the department of justice do to stop Michael Flynn from potentially handing over information and documents directly to congress . For now, wolf, Michael Flynn is still awaiting sentencing. As you recall, hes pleaded guilty to false statements. So for now probably hes under the control essentially of a judge. So they will have to go through a judge before anything happens. Certainly after that is done, the Justice Department probably cant stop him from providing any information hes already provided to members of congress of the keep in mind, hes not protected by executive appreciate lidge per se regarding anything that happened during the campaign. Executive privilege only protects you from information during the time he was inside the administration, just for those weeks. So its not clear to me the department of justice can stop him from sharing information, especially as it relates to the wikileaks conversations that were happening before donald trump became president , before he was elected president. You know, one of the aspects of this new information, susan, involves wikileaks. Its a significant potentially significant new revelation. Explain how significant it could be. It could potentially be really significant. First of all, it indicates Michael Flynn is one of the select few senior officials in the room. So the conversations flynn was privy to really were the inner circle, potentially donald trump himself. So it speaks to the sensitivity and potential value of flynns personal testimony. The other thing the Mueller Report didnt answer was the president s personal knowledge, what exactly they did in response to revelations and their own knowledge of what the russians were actually doing. How did they seek to capitalize on this information . Did they have a plan to warn the American Public . Did they even consider warning the American Public . Did they believe they benefited from this assistance . Michael flynn really is in a position to fill in a lot of the gaps and the details in that volume one, which, of course, the special counsels office determined there were no additional chargeable crimes. But to the extent were using collusion as a colloquial term, there were a lot of contacts between Campaign Officials and representatives of the russian government. Certainly there was a lot of focus within the campaign on whether or not they could potentially benefit from help by the russians. You remember at one point President Trump, according to comey, said to comey when he was still the fbi director, let Michael Flynn go. And that sort of fits into this right now, especially if Michael Flynn knew specific information about what wikileaks was doing, what the russians were up to. Right. Wolf, i think this goes to the motivation of why weve always wondered, right, why Michael Flynn was treated differently by the president. He didnt attack him on twitter. Hes attacked all of the others who he believed were betraying essentially him by cooperating with the special counsels investigation. So one of the things that you see in these documents is the fact you can see theres this outreach effort and theyre trying to essentially tell Michael Flynn that, hey, were all in the same boat. We have common interests. We would love to know what youre saying essentially to the special counsel, and special counsel in this document says they werent aware of some of that outreach until Michael Flynn provided it to them and it shows you why they believe he was so valuable. Why they argued to the judge to treat him well, to essentially give him no prison time. And because hes been so valuable to the special counsel. I want to bring in phil mattingly, our Congressional Correspondent up on capitol hill. This likely to increase democrats demands for what is described as underlying evidence associated with the 400plus page Mueller Report. Theres no question about it, there are three areas you need to pay attention tointerms of how democrats are about to respond to the new information just breaking right now. I think the first one is related to the unredacted report. A lot of Michael Flynns information was redacted in the Mueller Report released publicly because it pertained or in some way related to the ongoing roger stone case. This will underscore the efforts to receive the unredacted report in full. The other, as you know wolf, the counterintelligence piece of this, the request for the underlying investigative investigation. Not just as it relates to the Mueller Report itself but also as it relates to beyond just the Judiciary Committee, which is conducting its own investigation, the House Intelligence Committee as well related to any contacts at the campaign or individuals involved in the Transition Team may have had with the russian government or may have broached at any point in time. That would seem it line up what that committees been looking into and what committees jurisdiction is. And i think the third and probably most prominent and one of the reasons i would be willing to bet over the course the next couple hours, the need to have Michael Flynn come up and publicly testify, is the idea of obstruction. This has been a huge piece of the house judiciary investigation up to this point, the idea anybody from the trump orbit was reaching out to Michael Flynn while he was cooperating with the Mueller Investigation. The idea there might be or is a voicemail that reflects that, that is something members of Congress Democrats who are investigating looking into this stuff are going to want to get in some way, shape or form. Whether voluntarily or subpoenaed. Those are the types of things they would be looking to get as they continue to move forward in their investigation. You need to look at this in three tracks and understand the democrats, it should be noted are hitting a brick wall when it comes to obtaining the Mueller Report on all sorts of investigation will be seeking to get in any way they possibly can and probably likely at some point somebody will be calling for Michael Flynn to come up and testify. Remember, wolf, Michael Flynn did not come up and testify on capitol hill through the course of the investigations in the last two years. This likely moves him on to a list to come up at some point to address some of issues raised in these new filings. They would love to question him. Hes awaiting sentencing as we know as well. Phil, stand by. I want to bring in the a democrat who serves on the Judiciary Committee as well as Foreign Affairs committee. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Let me get your reaction, Michael Flynn, former National Security adviser to the president , testified communication from people connected to the Trump Administration and to congress could have influenced his cooperation with the Mueller Investigation. Is this new information to you, and to your committee, or were you aware of all of this . This is new to me. This is very explosive, wolf. I think its very clear this further supports the urgent need of the committee to hear from mr. Mueller directly, to get the fully unredacted report and all of the supporting materials and very likely bring mr. Flynn before the committee as well. This is new information to me. It is presumably contained in the redacted portions of the Mueller Report. But its very relevant to the question of obstruction of justice. It should be remembered the special counsel found ten instances where the president obstructed justice and relied on the olc memorandum that said a sitting president cant be indicted as the basis not to move forward. So this is very, very important evidence for the committee to see. Do you want to investigate this as another example of possible obstruction of justice . Oh, absolutely. Look, the reason were pressing so hard for the full Mueller Report and all of the supporting documents is because the Mueller Report contains ten specific instances where the president obstructed justice, and this is additional information. Now it makes sense that the president was trying, if you remember, to have director comey leave and let this flynn thing go. We all wondered why was the president treating mr. Flynn so differently, trying to get the fbi director to sort of let the thing go, never attacking him publicly, and now we at least have part of the answer. Its very important that the committee get the full context of this, the supporting documents, the tape recordings if there are any. Again, this underscores the committees urgent demand that these materials be made available to us so we can do our work to hold this administration accountable, to make judgments about how to proceed and whether or not impeachment is appropriate. This is further evidence of the need to do that. What might these individuals be, congressman, these individuals associated with the trump organization, the trump white house, with congress, who may have been trying to influence flynn . Well, we just dont know. But we obviously know that those individuals need to be disclosed to us. Obviously, if they are members of trumps inner circle, which we assume they are, thats very relevant. What role they played on the president s team, what were the nation of those conversations . I think mr. Flynn will be expected to share those details with the committee and produce whatever evidence he may have to support that. Its not just his sworn testimony but he apparently has documentary evidence that is also going to be very valuable to the committee. So i dont think we should speculate on it but its very clear this is central to the obstruction of justice conduct of the president and committee absolutely must have access to these material and this witness. Of course, flynn also testified the Trump Campaign considered reaching out to wikileaks when John Podestas emails became public. Do you expect more charges to come related to wikileaks, for example, in the roger stone case or in other ongoing investigations . I think its too early to know that but we know there were at least 140 contacts between the russians and representatives of wikileaks and Trump Campaign that were detailed in the Mueller Report. So theres a lot of information that relates to the conversations that were happening. Why they were happening, what people knew, this, again, is the subject of our inquiry before the jiesudiciary committee, whi is why it is essential to get the full unredacted report and all of the supported material to make informed judgments on this serious issue zplxt youre on the committee wheriery nadler is working to have mueller come before your committee to testify. If the attorney general bill barr has no objection to that as he repeatedly now said, why hasnt your committee been able to set a specific date for that hearing with mueller . Our Committee Staff has been in ongoing discussions with mr. Muellers team. My hope is that he will come before the committee in short order. They have not yet reached an agreement with respect to his testimony or a date. But i know all of the members of the committee believe strongly mr. Mueller needs to come before the Judiciary Committee to walk the people through his report to the judgments he made, evidence he discovered, conclusions he came to. After all, this was an investigation that began on behalf of the american because our country was attacked by a foreign adversary, our democracy, and this investigation was done on behalf of the American People. They paid for it. They have a right to fully understand what the special counsel found. And i hope it will come before the committee in very short order. The House Speaker nancy pelosi today echoed the threat from the Judiciary Committee chairman jerry nadler of using whats called inherent contempt to defy those who defy your subpoenas. Whats the time line do you think for a package, a vote on contempt . Our committee has already moved forward on the contempt proceedings against mr. Barr. There are a number of committees confronting the same challenges. The idea is maybe package some of those together to bring them to the floor for a single action. I think that will depend in part on what how quickly the other committees act. But what is very clear is that we are committed to making sure that we use all of the tools that are at our disposal, including inherent contempt if we must, to ensure we get the documents we need to do our work, witnesses are compelled to come before us to testify under oath. Because if we leave it to the executive branch and they get to decide who will be a witness and what documents will be produced, the executive branch will have the ability to extinguish the oversight function of congress. We cannot and will not allow that to happen. It sounds like the speaker is still leaving open the option of using impeachment proceedings in the house of representatives, perhaps not necessarily to impeach the president but to gain more investigative powers. At what point would you support going in that direction . Well, i think tuesday is going to be a very important day. Thats when don mcgahn has been subpoenaed to appear before the committee. And you are absolutely right, article three of the impeachment against Richard Nixon was based on obstruction of congress. And it may well be if the president continues in his effort to stonewall the American People, to prevent us from getting to the truth, to try to hold himself above the law, to prevent congress from doing oversight investigations, that could constitute by itself a grounds for impeachment of the president or opening of an impeachment inquiry. I think tuesday will be an important day. The president s efforts, ongoing efforts to prevent the truth from coming out, to prevent the American People from knowing all of the facts, is something that in and of itself could be an independent basis for an impeachment proceeding. You think don mcgahn, the former white House Counsel, will appear tuesday before your committee . I hope so. He has been lawfully served with a subpoena for tuesday. We expect him to appear and to testify before the committee, and if he doesnt, i think the committee is fully prepared to move forward with contempt proceedings against him. But i hope we will hear from mr. Mcghan, and he will come as the subpoena requires. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. We will continue to follow the breaking news after this. But its not just big either. Its the kind of big where youll never have to ask, should i scooch up . Its big that looks at a sunroof and wonders why it cant just be most of the roof. 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In this letter jerry nadler says, your failure to comprehend the gravity of the special counsels finding is astounding and dangerous. He also goes on to say, the committee has the right, indeed the duty under the constitution to investigate these and other related circumstances. Recent developments indicate that the objects of our investigation as to both past and current actions are needed more urgently than ever. Both the russian threat to our elections and the president s threat to the rule of law continue. Now, this is in relation to an investigation that was launched in march into potential obstruction of justice. Nadlers committee sent 82 letters to various entities all across trumps orbit, including to the white house. The white house responded yesterday saying it would not comply with any of the requests, said there was no legitimate legislative purpose to provide these documents, instead they would be a redo. The special counsels investigation, they said thats not what congress should be doing but as you heard just there, jerry nadler rejecting that on all accounts, saying the white house must turn this over. He does suggest that there could be some accommodation to negotiate what information could be turned over as relates to some of the underlying evidence related to the Mueller Investigation. But nevertheless, these two sides in complete odds about what Information Congress can get and, again, setting the stage for what could be court action that could take some time to play out as democrats are demanding scores of information and the white house is saying no. Wolf . Manu radja on capitol hill, thank you. Lets go to the white house and chief can correspondent jim acosta working this story. First, is the white house saying anything about Michael Flynn and this new information . Not just yet wolf, but i think its important because the lane appears to be clear for special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify on capitol hill presumably if Michael Flynn was cooperating with the special counsels investigation, that might be a key question that lawmakers would want to ask. When and if the special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies up on capitol hill. We do know the president has been saying for days its up to his attorney general william barr as to whether or not the special counsel should be allowed to testify. And we know barr has said in recent days he sees no problem with the special counsel testifying. And so that appears to be a lane cleared now for bob mueller to testify and perhaps be asked this very interesting question about Michael Flynn and any potential cooperation or actual cooperation hes been providing to the special counsels office. The president has been turning his attention to other matters today. The president just proposed a radical change to the nations immigration situation that sounded just like a campaign speech, straight out of the white house rose garden. Playing to his base of the 2020 campaign, President Trump planned to change the immigration system, issuing a warning from the rose garden democrats should stop resisting his proposals. And if for some reason, possibly political, we cant get the democrats to approve this meritbased, highsecurity plan, then we will get it approved immediately after the election when we take back the house, keep the senate and, of course, the presidency. President , what about the daca . What about the dreamers, mr. President . Reporter without addressing the fate. Socalled undocumented dreamers, he said they would be let at the border. They are being displaced by those lodging frivolous claims, these are frivolous claims to gain admission into our country. Reporter the president also proposed a new Legal Immigration system that would fast track immigrants who speak english. To promote integration, assimilation, and national unity, future immigrants will be required to learn english and to pass a civics exam prior to admission. Reporter but the proposed legislation is getting a lukewarm reception on capitol hill, where many republicans are telling cnn there is little appetite for another immigration fight. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the president s plan would make the current spike of migrants at the border even worse. Weve always said that it gets to be more of a humanitarian crisis, the more the administration i wont paint all of the republicans with this the more the administration acts in the shameful way. Mr. President , are we going to war with iran . I hope not. Reporter behind closed doors, the president has another potential crisis on his hands, iran. Sources tell cnn the president has been grumbling that some of his more haushish advisers including National Security adviser john bolton, are pushing too hard for military action against iran. Some of his political advisers worry waging war with iran would run counter with his criticism of george w. Bush. We should have never been in iraq. We destabilized the middle east. We lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none and they knew there were none. Back in 2011 mr. Trump falsely predicted president obama would go to war with iran to win reelection. Our president will start a war with iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. Hes weak and hes ineffective. So the only way he figures that hes going to get reelected, and as sure as you sitting there, is to start a war with iran. Reporter the president is also revealing a bit more about his finances, even as he hides his tax returns from the public. A new Financial Disclosure form, the president said he made more than 400 million last year, including another 40 million at his d. C. Hotel, which has pulled in twice that since hes been in office. And this news tonight that Michael Flynn, the former National Security adviser fired by this president for lying to the Vice President about the National Security advisers contacts with the russians during the transition period before President Trump came in office, that was an interesting revelation that Michael Flynn was talking to the special counsels office and potentially providing evidence. I think that potentially tees up requests from lawmakers up on capitol hill to perhaps hear from the fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn, a name we have not really heard a whole lot about in recent weeks. But as we noticed from this white house, when it comes to former white House Counsel don mcgahn and others over here, they have been very reluctant and some have been saying theyve been stonewalling in terms of allowing former white house officials to testify before congress this news thats breaking tonight. Obviously tees up another one of those discussions that will obviously take place now, which is will this white house if it comes to this allow this white house to testify on capitol hill, wolf . Especially the white house. They want him to testify as soon as possible. Hes awaiting sentencing as we know as well. Gist acosta at the white house, thank you very much. A lot more on all of the breaking news after this. This is not a bed. Its a revolution in sleep. The sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now during our memorial day sale. It senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. It even helps with this. 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Breaking news this hour, were getting new details of former National Security adviser Michael Flynns cooperation with special Counsel Robert Mueller and his Team Including his help with muellers obstruction investigation. They come in a less redacted version of memos from the court record and flynns criminal case that have just been released. Lets dig deeper with our analysts and our experts. Evan perez, how valuable potentially is Michael Flynn in this investigation . Its clear, wolf, that he is among the most valuable witnesses in this investigation. Certainly as we get a little bit more of these documents, which have been previously released, but which are now providing a lot more new details about what the cooperation entailed, including according to these documents essentially flynn describing who he talked to after his phone call with the former Russian Ambassador. If you remember e. That, thats thing that ends up being allegedly why he was fired, because he lied about exactly what was happening in those conversations. So according to the documents today that we have now seen parts of, he tells various people in the administration, in the transition, about exactly what he was saying about those phone calls so that appears to be very key to the special counsel investigation as it was going on. Susan hennessy, what should we make of the investigation that someone associated with a member of Congress Reached out to flynn to prevent try to prevent his cooperation . I think this is potentially really significant because it indicates potentially someone connected to congress themselves engaged in obstructive efforts, efforts to prevent flynn from providing that full and complete cooperation. We really have seen sort of a breakdown of congressional oversight. Weve seen especially in the house, House Republicans essentially acting as the president s defense team, acting against the Justice Department and fbi on behalf of the president. This certainly would be a substantial escalation if any member of congress or their associates werent just exercising their own legislative powers in essentially preventing information from coming to congress, but actually were attempting to prevent Michael Flynn from cooperating with federal investigators. And so certainly other members of congress are going to have serious questions about who that refers to and what exactly occurred. Bianna, how significant is it there apparently is a voicemail connected to all of this as well and the role congress will have presumably . They will want to get this. It could be very significant, wolf. It makes the republicans argument this is yet another witchhunt and this is the Mueller Investigation doover that much more difficult. There are few people who are arguably closer to thencandidate trump during the campaign than Michael Flynn. He relied on him for just about everything. And was his adviser on multiple fronts, not just Foreign Policy but even the economy. You will recall the president was very upset when Michael Flynn stepped down and then started to distance himself once he realized that Michael Flynn was cooperating with the prosecutors. You can imagine how it would look at least optically to hear if that were ever a possibility what that voicemail was. He was a crucial part of this president s campaign. Like i said arguably one of the closest People Associated with the president , and another reason why democrats are now pursuing more information from the report that was redacted. What do you think, david, that house democrats, how are they going to be looking at this new development . So, wolf, i think democrats are going to say two things. One, theyre going to look at the new reporting about flynn and lets say, lets get this straight, not only did former National Security adviser flynn plead guilty to having lied to the fbi, but now apparently were being told that he was potentially being asked to lie again. And i think that is theyre going to want to see, as bianna said, more information about that. And this is why we need not just the unredacted report but underlying evidence that the report was based on, which is something that chairman nadler has asked for. And so far has been stonewalled on. So you worked on the National Security council, you were an adviser then during the obama administration, what do you make of this level of cooperation between the President Trumps former National Security adviser and these others . Well, wolf, Michael Flynns finally acting like the two National Security advisers i worked for. Hes cooperating with the Law Enforcement community. Theres an fbi investigation into Administration Activity when i was at the white house and all of us cooperated, including the National Security adviser, into that inquiry. Michael flynn is finally doing that when faced with the prospect of not getting a plea deal he liked. Plea deals dont come for free. He had to cooperate and show something to get the deal he got. As i learned during the course of the special county investigation in Paul Manaforts case, if youre not forthcoming with the special counsel and with the legal teams, tler repercussions and deals can be taken off the table. I will just add finally, wolf, Michael Flynn did not act like someone expecting a pardon from donald trump. Its clear he at least seemed to want to provide information to try to get the best deal that he could rather than wait and hope President Trump would come to his rescue at some point. We known he has been cooperating with the special counsel. Hes now awaiting sentencing as we also know. 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As a result of what this judge now ordered, parts of the Mueller Report that were redacted that had to do with Michael Flynn are going to be released, according to order from the judge by the end of the month. The Justice Department will have to release parts of the report that were redacted having to do with Michael Flynn as well as details and transcripts of Michael Flynns conversations with the former russia ambassador, serg day kislyak. Thats what Michael Flynn got in trouble over, as well as this voicemail weve been talking about. There was a reference to that in the Mueller Report but now the judge is ordering that the Justice Department release the transcript of that voicemail of someone related to President Trumps legal team reaching out to Michael Flynn to essentially affect his cooperation with the special counsel. We will see what exactly words were being exchanged and what the context of those conversations were. I just want to be precise, they also want the transcript of the voicemail, is that right . Thats right, the transcript of the voicemail as well as the conversations with sergey kislyak. Significant developments unfolding right now. Stand by. Theres more breaking news. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, adam schiff, Just Announced that he plans to take whats called enforcement action against the department of justice. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. What are you learning, manu . Just spoke with the House Intelligence Committee chairman about the subpoena he had issued to the Justice Department to turn over counterintelligence information gleaned during the Mueller Probe and that Counterintelligence Agency has not been turned over to the satisfaction of the chairman. Now the chairman adam schiff plans to take what hes calling, quote, enforcement action against the Justice Department next week. I asked him specifically what do you mean by enforce, action . He would not say. He said hes going to consult with the house general counsel, and the committee will take a vote next week to take this enforcement action presumably in the past, hes said potentially holding bill barr, the attorney general in context, which is a separate committee. The house jieudiciary committee voted to do but we will see if they decide to do. The Committee Also announced they will hold a vote in the committee to release transcripts and exhibits of Michael Cohen, the president s former attorneys, the testimony multiple days before the committee. The transcripts and committees could be released in a matter of days after his Committee Votes to release them. Of course, thats been a very significant testimony that now as the senator of another investigation by schiffs committee to look into whether trump attorneys in any way played a role in editing testimony that later turned out to be false and Michael Cohen may have acknowledged lying to congress about the pursuit of that trump tower moscow project in the run up to the 2016 elections. Well be able to see exactly what Michael Cohen is alleging behind closed doors and exactly what adam schiff is trying to pursue as part of that investigation. Two key developments, that and releasing the transcripts and also this move to hold the Justice Department and take some sort of enforcement action after the Justice Department did not turn over documents related to counterintelligence information as part of the Mueller Probe as schiff was demanding was part of his subpoena. Wolf . Stand by. I want to get back to the legal and political analysts. It looks like its coming in it is, wonderful. I think one were going to fine out the answer to soon where at least i hope we do is what chairman schiff means by enforcement action. Congress has oversight power and article 2 of the constitution gives impeachment power. We are not there yet. The question is if he is talking about enforcement that could mean anything from a vote in the full house to censure someone to up and to and including the attorney general. It could mean actually taking a vote to hold someone in contempt. Its hard to imagine that that means that the house sergeant at arms would somehow try to, you know, effect an arrest of an official in the executive branch. We need to know more about that. But i think what this clearly shows is that we moved very quickly from a phase where congress is saying we are unhappy with the attorney generals interpretation of the Mueller Report. To hey mr. Attorney general what have you not told gnaws underlies the report . Thats where we are going in the coming days. Susan hennessy its not just how democrat nas continue the counterpunch against the administration. The federal judge you just heard evan perezs report, the federal judge has now ordered by may 31st, the end of the month, the public release of portions of the Mueller Report involving Michael Flynn that earlier had been redacted as well as transcripts of flynns conversations with the former Russian Ambassador in washington sergei kizlyak as well as the transcript of the sensitive voice mail that presumably is raising all sorts of questions. Yes, i think of this the transcript of the flynn kizlyak phone call is going to be one of the most significant pieces of new public information. Keep in mind this was the phone call flynn lied about that launched the entire investigation which led to accusations of the president having obstructed justice. Now whats really interesting and critical to understand about the call is whenever Michael Flynn was communicating to the Russian Ambassador the Trump Administrations intention to lift sanctions when they came into office, was he indicating he was acting on behalf of the president or the president elect at that time that trump told him to make the offer . Or was he suggesting this was something he was going to try and convince the president of . Thats significant because the Mueller Report couldnt ultimately establish whether or not the president elect had actually directed Michael Flynn to make that offer. Thats really that is significant, not just sort of substantively as to why the president would have made that offer to lift sanctions with you also because it goes to when donald trump told jim comey to see his way to et willing Michael Flynn go. Of course if he directed flynn to make that offer to lift sanctions he would have known full well at that time that the Michael Flynn lied to federal investigators and committed a crime. Samantha, its pretty extraordinary to demand the release of a transcript of a conversation between a National Security adviser and a Russian Ambassador. Well, it is. But lets keep in mind that the russians already have the transcripts. At this point the judge is ordering the release of transcripts of Michael Flynn telling the russians something that we dont even know how many people within the russian government have access to the information. Its entirely appropriate that this information should at least be released to relevant lawmakers on capitol hill so that we even the Playing Field a little bit. All right. Everybody stand by. There is a lot more to follow up on. Well do that right after this quick break. [music playing] vo this is jerry. Jerry has a membership to this gym, but hes not using it. 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But what we do have is a drexel picture of whether his income went up or down. So in 2018 he reported income of 434 million, 16 million less than 2017. We also get a picture of how his individual properties are performing. And i want to point out too specifically, maralago and his iconic hoe knell in washington, d. C. From maralago is it being took a bit of a hit. 2. 5 million down from 2017 and the washington hotel, the d. C. Hotel it pretty much the same. But still a large amount of money from that hotel. Its a big money make are for them. I want to point out a statement eric trump gave me basically putting up a strong front behind the numbers saying the iconic hotel golf courses commercial buildings, Residential Projects and other assets are the best in the world and unrivaled by anyone. That is eric trump running the business upon a day to day basis, wolf. From the new numbers there is a lot missing information that would be revealed if we had access to tax returns, right . Right. These forms only require the fieler in this case trump to report income in ranges. For a lot of the numbers going through them today i saw one to 5 million, the tax returns gnat democrats push for would show exactly how much income. It would also show how much in tax the president paid and whether he used any tax avoidance or give us hints about any tax avoidance strategies, wolf. The disclosures show us nothing about how much tax he paid, how much he made in charitable contributions, a a lot of specific information like that, right . Correct. Thats why the democrats really want to see the president s tax returns. This is just a very general overview of the president s business. It doesnt get into any of the nittygritty. We also get a bit of a picture of his liabilities. We did spot a new loan for a property in florida. There are little tied bits that over the coming days reporters will be able to pull the threads and find out a little bit more. But, again, if we want specifics and we want to know whether or not the president s income what the president s income is were going to have to see his tax returns, wolf. Lets hope we do. Christina, thank you very much. On the heels of President Trumps new Financial Disclosure cnns erin burnett investigates how do he and his family do business . Join us tomorrow night for a cnn special report, the trump family business, 9 00 p. M. Eastern only here on cnn. Thanks for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, President Trump reveals he made at least 434 million last year but there is so much more we do not know about the president s finances. Why . What could he be hiding . Plus breaking news . New details about Michael Flynns cooperation with mueller. Who left flynn a voice mail about his cooperation with the special counsel . And the United States claims to have new evidence of irans aggression tonight. Where is the proof . Is this starting to look too much like iraq . Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight trump cashes in the president releasing his annual Financial Disclosure report giving a glimpse into the