Russians, the white house is trying to move on. The fact is that general flynn continued in that position and was in the president ial daily briefings as part of the leader calls as recently as yesterday, general flynn kellyanne that makes no sense. Last month the Justice Department warned the white house that general flynn had misled them and that as a result he was vulnerable to blackmail and at that moment he still had the complete trust of the president . Matt, im telling you what the president has said, which is that hes accepted general flynns resignation and he wishes him well and that were moving on. The president ignoring questions this morning. Lets get going. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. And from capitol hill only the beginning of the investigations. I think there is significant dysfunction in the National Security apparatus of the Trump Administration, when you see that you dont know whos in charge, this flynn situation, the whole environment is one of dysfunc
Three house chairman are warning to stop intimidating witnesses and informing the deputy that pompeo, coat, appears to have a conflict of interest. But despite pompeos efforts to keep him from talking, two diplomats have agreed starting tomorrow. What is it they want to say and how hard will pompeo fight on this . We could know in just minutes. The secretary of state holds a News Conference in italy shortly. We will bring that to you live. House speak will brief on later this morning. Language has reached unprecedented levels, he will hold a News Conference this afternoon. Lets began, though, on capitol hill where this fight is centered at this moment with who and who will not be coming to speak to them soon. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux there. Reporter good morning. Secretary pompeo is currently overseas in italy but he and his state department are the focal point for those leading this impeachment inquiry. Mia mike pompeo trying to block officials from his department of talking to congress.
this back and forth between the united states. this is getting serious. reporter: very serious. the accusations are really flying back and forth now. when you look at some of the what s coming out of the state department in the pentagon, the russians may be getting mixed messages from the u.s. government. take a listen. our question remains how can the russians conscious their continued military sales to syria. russia has been extraordinarily helpful. we re grateful for the assistance they offer with respect to logistics routes in and out of northern afghanistan. reporter: what he is talking about there is the northern distribution network. what that means is afghanistan is landlocked. on one side you have country like iran. very limited options to get food and supplies in there. a lot of that comes through this very winding route and smack dab at the center of it all is russia and a lot of former soviet states. n nato is depending on that. they supply the afghan forc