pentagon or the state department for the foreign government payments he received. he was supposed to get permission and report it and he didn t. and they say he didn t disclose the more than half million dollars his firm was given for lobbying activity on the behalf of turkey when he applied to reinstate his security clearance or $45,000 he received from russia for a rttv speaking engagement. money he says flynn might have to pay back. as a former military officer you simply cannot take money from russia, turkey or anybody else. and it appears as if he did take that money. it was inappropriate and there are repercussions for the violation of law. flynn s attorney says in a statement, he did comply with the law not on the russia payment saying quote general
judicial branch of government knowingly, that s keyesword, and willfully false fis, conseals or covers a material fact can be in prison for up to five years. that gives prosecute ears bors t to swing. if there s a larger conspiracy or concern that foreign money was being actively hidden sure that s the law that could get you in trouble. these documents, are they likely a footnote do you think in this russian investigation overall, russian investigation, or could this be just sething bigger? well it really depends on who knew what when. if the documents were something that white house was aware of, that they advised flynn to not put on his advised flynn it was not a big deal when vetted for national security adviser, the disclosure form was, of course, before trump got into office so it s not directly that somebody told him not to enter those items on that form, but the question is did people higher up than flynn know and
after reviewing classified documents today. after reviewing those documents they have seen no proof showing flynn received permission from the pentagon or state department for the foreign government payments he received from both russia and turkey and they say he didn t fully disclose the more than half a million dollars his firm was given for lobbying activities on behalf of turkey when he applied to reinstate his security clearance before he became the national security adviser. he didn t disclose the $45,000 he received from russia for rt tv speaking engage lt. because of those issues, it appears that he may have broken the law here, don. jason chaffetz is speaking out tonight. he spoke to manu raju. phil, this is for you so pay particular attention to this. personally, i see no information or no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law. and that is he was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the secretary of state and the
who was very upset with michael flynn for failing to tell him truthfully what was going on right now. they re at time where they wanted to cut the rope and they thought the rope was cut and that michael flynn would have to deal with it himself. little do they know they are so insneered in this whether they like it or not, and they have to deal with the issue. when you see sean spicer, he s active military, he s got to be saying to himself why am i up here having to basically answer for the sins, potential sins of somebody else? you think this could be big trouble, not only for flynn but for the vice president. how come? i ll tell you that i think the bigger problem is both mike pence and mike flynn. the vice president was in charge of the transition team and they have a guy who was a few hands
one or o aft that and take a look at what he had to say. this goes back for, you know, a year prior to donald trump ever becoming the president, so it s not as if the white house isn t responding. there just aren t documents and that s the problem. reporter: chaffetz also told me that part of why he doesn t think the white house can give them the documents they ve asked for is because there is no documentary evidence of what michael flynn did of contacts with foreign governments because he didn t follow the rules. i asked him, hey, do you believe that general flynn broke the law and chaffetz said well, i certainly don t think he complied with the law. a pretty significant accusation there. now, of course, chaffetz, in interesting kind of set of timing, we found out that they received notice from the white house back last wednesday and, of course, we heard two days later that chaffetz plans to not run for re-election coming up in