david, the ranking member of the house oversight committee, democratic congressman elijah cummings, he said at that news conference with jason chaffetz at his side that the white house has refused to provide any documents in response to their repeated requests for documents. the white house says it doesn t have any relevant documents. is the white house, as some suspect, obstructing this house oversight committee investigation? well, look, i think the committee wants to know what it is that general flynn told the white house and before they were in the white house, told the transition about his dealings in russia and turkey as a foreign agent, and and and they the argument that i think sean spicer was making today if i understand it is we don t have documentation before from before january 20thth, and after january 20thth it wasn t relevant because he was a government official, but it adds to this notion this sense of
rosenstein, second in command. he ll face the daunting task of overseeing investigations into russian election meddling now that the attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself. at the same time, the white house now facing questions about whether the fired national security adviser michael flynn broke the law by not revealing a payment he took from russia. press secretary sean spitzer says he doesn t know if flynn did anything illegal, but heads of the house oversight committee say flynn appears, appears, to have broken the law. also breaking this hour, a federal judge in california has just ordered a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the president s latest executive order threatening to withhold funds from so-called sanctuary cities. and first daughter ivanka trump met with some booze and hisses as she praised what she called her father s advocacy of women. she s taking part in a summit on women s empowerment in berlin. we re covering all of that. much more this h
guests including senator chris murphy, a member of the foreign relations committee, and our correspondents and expert analysts. they are also standing by. let s begin with the controversy over former national security adviser michael flynn. our senior congressional reporter manu raju is up on capitol hill with the very latest. manu, the leaders of the house oversight committee say there s no sign flynn complied with the law requiring him to disclose these payments from russia and turkey. yeah, indeed, wolf. in fact, one of those congressmen even suggesting that perhaps mr. flynn committed a felony by not disclosing some of the payments on his clearance forms. what s become clear, wolf, is flynn is now at the center of several investigations on capitol hill into russia and russia s meddling including the senate intelligence committee s investigates. i just spoke with the senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr and asked him would he be willing to give michael flynn immunit
you look at how this investigation into the connections between the trump campaign and the russian government unfolds, do you have to think about, you know, whether there are trump campaign officials who violated the law, who will eventually cooperate with law enforcement in order to deal with their potential legal liability, so you now have the potential for a major legal violation by michael flynn. the question is does he talk about some of the connections he and the campaign had with the russian government cooperating in exchange for some leniency or some preferential treatment on potential charges that are filed against him. you know, i m not in the law enforcement agencies. i m only speculating, but i think the significance of this is that ultimately it may open up some avenues to understand what the relationship was between the trump campaign and the russians who were trying to manipulate election in favor of the donald trump.
are four at this point going on, the fbi, the two out of the senate and the house in terms of the intelligence committees and then the oversight committee as well, you almost have to look at this as a big puzzle, right, and it s going to take months and months and months to put this puzzle together. we don t know what the final picture will be, whether or not that s collusion or whether it s something different, so this i think is just another piece of that. in terms of the white house what it means is, again, we re talking about russia. we re talking about flynn as well so that s never good for this white house. i mean, we ve seen this sort of steady drip, particularly when it comes to flynn, in the news. of course, he resigned back in february but he keeps popping up in the news and when flynn is in the news, that means russia is in the news, and that means the specter of collusion between this white house and campaign aides is once again in the news. it comes as this is a white hous