third generation of the kim family, his own family to rule there. there are also reports that he may have been considering a defection to south korea. the north korea s have asked an autopsy not be done and the body returned to them. bill: big meeting at the white house. coming up later this morning. president trump will host the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this will be significant, too. we expect it s the relationship to be much different from what we ve seen over the past several years. they hold a joint news conference at noon eastern time and certainly we ll have coverage of that. shannon: must-see tv. no doubt questions about this. former national security advisor michael flynn, democrats calling for a full independent investigation into exactly what kind of conversations he had with the russian ambassador and why he ultimately resigned weeks later. maryland senator ben cardin is
no one urged flynn to call the russian ambassador on the left. i long for the day. bill: it is not illegal. i long for the days if i said something nice about russia sean hannity would call me a commie lover. things are upside down. my point is that that s not the problem. the problem is, if it starts to spread to the president s own party and they start to ask the questions and you are starting to see that. you are starting to see senator blunt. first it started with just mccain and lindsey graham. you are now starting to see other very important senators, particularly on the senate side, gop senators who are starting to ask questions and say and want a deeper investigation. bill: mitch mcconnell will do it in your investigative committee and no independent counsel. thomas friedman writes this in the new york times. ladies
i m talking about should include who is leaking and they should be punished. it is not fair to the president for him to be treated this way. shannon: a democrat or republican in the white house if there are leaks how concerning is that to you? i agree with senator graham. we have to be able to protect our sources. we have to be able to protect confidentiality. we also have to have an open investigation as to what is going on so the american people are shared the appropriate information. but unauthorized leaks, compromising classified information, that cannot be tolerated. shannon: i want to ask you as well this morning developments with a russian vessel of some kind now 30 miles off the coast of connecticut. the fly bys that we had last week of russian jets. what do you make of what a lot of people say is a very provocative course of action? we know there are hot spots all over the world today. we know what china is doing in the china sea is provocative.
evidence to back it up. it sounds like some colleagues across the aisle share the core of your same concerns. i agree with that completely. senator corker, the chairman of the foreign relations committee and i have talked about this. we know that we have a responsibility on our committee to get information concerning our relationship with russia. we want to make sure that we have adequate information so that we can carry out our responsibilities as the senate foreign relations committee. yes, and senator graham and senator mccain and others have expressed a need for having a broader investigation as to what russia has done here in america. shannon: okay. i also asked senator graham about where the information came from, who is leaking it and who is responsible. here is what he told me. incredibly concerned that this white house and people around the white house are leaking conversations between the president and foreign leaders, leaking classified information to the media on a re
type of terrorist attack. we set up an independent commission, a blue ribbon commission and gave them broad powers to find out what happened to protect america. russia has attacked us. they attacked us in november in trying to compromise our free election system and there is evidence they re continuing to try to infiltrate our country. it is important that we have that type of a serious independent investigation done as to how we can protect ourselves from this type of vulnerability to our national security. it has to be nonpartisan and comprehensive. shannon: senator, there are a lot of people who will say equating 9/11 to what you are now looking at. those are two very different things. there are a number of scandals and rumors over the years on capitol hill. many of them during the last eight years under president obama s watch. you may have heard congressman gowdy said when you guys have been on vacation for a lot of years. from benghazi, email servers and you didn t want indepen