briefing since before the president s trip, a very busy day. so the breaking news about national security advisor michael flynn. michael flynn was saying not too long ago he was not going to be commenting and not testifying, not providing information to the senate intelligence committee. they floated the prospect of holding flynn in contempt of congress and low and behold a source is telling cnn that yes, michael flynn will be providing some documents to the senate intelligence committee by june the sixth, about a week or so from now. we should point out that s not the only activity. boris epshtyn that he has also been requested by intelligence committee investigators to provide information to congress as well as michael cohen. we confirmed throughic mooal cohen directly. he confirmed that yes, he s been
contained in the dos area described and jim acosta joins us now with all of the developments in a very, very busy day. what can you tell us about michael flynn. reporter: that s right. he was saying not too long ago that he was not going to be commenting and not testifying or pro i had vooi providing information to the senate intelligence committee of holding flynn in contempt of congress and lo and behold, a source close to the national security adviser is telling cnn that, yes, michael flynn will be providing some documents of the senate intelligence committee by june the 6th, about a week or so from now. we should point out, that s not the only activity today. former special assistant to the president confirmed to cnn through a source that he also has been requested by intelligence committee investigators to provide information to congress as well
neither testify nor turn over documents to the senate intelligence committee. also, a source tells cnn two other trump former associates paul manafort and roger stone have turned over documents requested by the intelligence committee investigators. let s bring in our own specialists. phil mudd, i want to play for you some the words of the president as a candidate when he was complaining about hillary clinton associates taking the fifth, pleading the fifth. listen to what he used to say. now the people who destroyed the e-mails are all pleading the fifth amendment in front of congress today. fifth amendment, fifth andment, horrible. like you see the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the five-day amendment. the man that was given the fifth, remember? whatever happened to him?
the reporting. what is new. u.s. officials tell them that the fbi has indication that indicates that associates and possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to hillary clinton s campaign. the fbi director on monday made this bombshell announcement before congress that the fbi is investigating the trump campaign s ties to russia. the fbi is now reviewing that information which includes human intelligence, travel business and phone records and accounts of in person meetings. that information is raised intelligence committee investigators that coordination and some officials cautioned us and inconclusive and the investigation is on going. the fbi would not comment nor