it doesn t look good. why do you think that the white house changed course today and invited democratic and republican leaders in the intel committee to view the information? they got their hand caught in the cookie jar. you think so? yeah. that seems to make sense. so what s next? do you even know what s next? we re going to continue our investigation. whether it is one that is seen as independent, credible and making progress or not, we can still review documents and hear from witnesses. but i think the american people are counting on us to find out what happened, whether u.s. persons are involved, and most importantly, don, make reforms so that we re never in this mess again. so in 2021, the incoming president s legitimacy is not questioned. thank you. my pleasure. much more on the breaking news story, michael flynn seeking immunity to testify in the investigation of russia s influence in the 2016 election. once there was a little pig
eased some concerns. the senate intelligence committee there with the opening statements, from richard burr, and then mark warner, senator mark warner, talking about this being a nonpartisan investigation. they want to follow the evidence where it leads. we ll just have to see. it s very early in this process. they ve got many more witnesses. the witness list is like 20. but my goodness, so disturbing to hear today about russia s involvement. this happened to us. that is what mark warner said. i think that s the focus of this senate intelligence committee. it is not a partisan fight. juliet, so if flynn wants immunity and he testifies, that would not be public. in the senate, that wouldn t be a public hearing, would it? i think it would. it would, okay. the senate would want it to be. it may be that flynn wants it to be. his lawyer released a statement today. i would suspect whatever story he has to tell, he would want it
lawyer for former trump national security adviser michael flynn says his client quote, certainly has a story to tell but will only tell it if he s granted immunity from prosecution. it came out he misled vice president pence about contacts with russian ambassador kislyak. three aides have said they will testify freely without immunity, paul manafort, roger stone, and carter page. so far the morning the white house refusing to comment. reporter: general flynn s lawyers putting the offer out there he will talk to congre congressional investigates if offered immunity. he says he has a story to hell
so, it really it couldn t be worse. this is this is, as david gergen would say, a bad news day at the white house. right. i mean, david gergen, not only somebody that flynn appointed to the national security council, but someone who the new head of the national security council, the new national security adviser, tried to get removed from the national security council. and according to the reporting by matthew, of the new york times, president trump himself intervened to stop that removal. i want to play a clip of something that general flynn said on meet the press back in september. i spoke about this. he was speaking about secretary clinton and the people around her asking for immunity. let s play that. the very last thing that john podesta just said is no individual too big to jail. that should include people like hillary clinton. i mean, five people around her have had have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. when you are given immunity, that mea
thing. the timeline is fishy. unless president trump had a crystal ball or to your point, he had actual information how could he have foretold on march 15th where he said i bet something will come out about wiretapping evidence in the next two weeks. because i think there is evidence to show that there was inappropriate surveillance of the trump team. hold on. hold on. let me finish. general flynn was unmasked, which was unlawful. we will find out who did that. were other people unmasked? i think leaking classified information is unlawful. unmasking in and of itself is not necessarily unlawful, matt. let s not have it both ways. i was having it one way there. again, we have to talk about what is legal and not legal. i want to correct you on a few points. hang on. if you get unmasked, do you