investigate if we talk about it so i can t comment. i d like to turn to another topic about mr. flynn his failure to disclose until pressured last week by my colleagues on the house oversight and government relations committee payments he received from russia for his 2015 trip to the tenth anniversary gala of rt, the russian owned propaganda media outlet. according to the january 2017 declassified ic assessment report, rt s criticism of the united states was the last facet of its broader and longstanding anti-u.s. messaging likely aimed at undermining viewers trust in the u.s. democratic procedures. this january assessment points out that this was a strategy that russia employed going back to before the 2012 elections, according to the ic assessment.