president s forum national security advisor may have broken the law. from what you ve seen so far, do you believe that michael flynn broke the law from either not disclosing these payments or not getting permission for getting these foreign payments? personally, i see no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law. i see no evidence that he actually did that. reporter: as a former military officer, flynn was supposed to get permission from top defense officials and the law required him to list 35i789sz, including more than a half a million dollars in turkish lobbying fees and $200,000 for a speech made in russia. he was picketed next to putin at a fancy dinner. now some say he may have know g knowingly falsified or covered
knowingly with hold information. was it willful, was it accidental? you just foirktd that you made $70,000 from an appearance in a.t. in russia and an appearance in turkey? that s hard to believe, and we won t know the answer to that until the white house provides the documents requested, any and all documents pertaining to mr. flynn and this matter. so i want to get to the white house in a second. but first your sense of motive. why do you think general flynn did it? how did he fail to disclose the money? i guess we could all speculate as to that. at the republican convention he was leading the cheer to can lock her up because of hillary clinton and the e-mail problems she had, but she didn t break the law. he has broken the law. if she was worthy of being
inauguration. in a disclosure forms which flynn completed in order to get top security clearance, the general didn t disclose payments for business dealings with foreign countries, including more than half a million dollars in payments from russia and turkey. now democrats say the white house is refusing its request for documents related to flynn s vetting and they are firing back. they asked for documents prior to january 20th. as you know. we didn t assume the white house until january 20th at noon. we don t have the documents prior to assuming the white house. that isn t going to be easy. tonight even republicans openly questioning whether flynn committed a crime. congressman p jason chaf its said today he sees nothing to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law.
the documents. what would you say? i d say that s sean spicer doing a bad imitation of melissa mccarthy. when he filled out the form is irrelevant. it was this white house that had to process that form and approve the form and it was this white house who hired him. not a trivial position. nice try, sean spicer, but that won t cut it. if we re going to talk about general flynn s disclosures, we should ask about the disclosure of the person who is possibly the top nationality security nernl this country, that is jared kushner. he did not disclose some meetings. for example, he didn t detail a meeting with a russian bank? is this also possibly a crime by mr. kushner? i think it s in the same
gloria borger. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front front starts right now. breaking news. the white house denying a request to release crucial documents related to michael flynn. did he break the law? and another federal judge blocks donald trump from cutting funding from sanctuary cities. how big a setback is it for the president? and ivanka trump standing up for herself tonight as she was booed and hissed. breaking news, stonewalling, the white house denying a request for crucial documents. documents related to 3ru67 s former national security advisory general kneifel flynn and contacts he may have had with foreign officials after