testify before congressional investigators if he gets immunity from prosecution. flynn s lawyer say anything a statement again flynn certainly has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit. no reasonable person would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution. flynn s lawyer saying discussions with both house and senate committees have taken place, but so far the offer has not been accepted. the trump administration is already battling allegations of collusion amid probes in both the house and senate about russia s meddling in the u.s. election. the white house declining to comment about the flynn news as flynn s own words last year about hillary clinton loom large over his potential testimony. the very last thing that john podesta just said is no individual too big to jail tharks should include people
national security adviser, general michael flynn, breaking his silence, offering to testify before federal and congressional investigators, but only if he is granted immunitimmunity. the latest headache for a white house reeling from the unfolding russia investigation. how did we get here? let s go back to the morning of march 4th, a saturday at mar-a-lago. president trump is angry and tweeting, quote, terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. and this. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy. the president offering absolutely no evidence to back up his shocking accusation against former president barack obama. the white house in full spin mode for days, trying to defend the indefensible. and offering no evidence because there is none. 11 days later, president trump
national security adviser. we ve never had a national security adviser accused of anything like this since john poindexter in the reagan years. usually they want a bigger fish. exactly. who s bigger than ham? that s right. one of them is the president of the united states that you would think of. i think they re going to build their case more carefully, and over time. and they may eventually give him immunity. but i think it s early. david is giving us perspective here. if i can go to my historian here, john. because, you know, you ve dealt with watergate. with ekeep bringing up watergate. no one has been prosecuted. no information has been found. but it is huge that he s asking for immunity. all the president s men, right? what about that comparison? to put it in perspective. we re 70 days in and we have a former national security adviser asking for immunity.
this administration cannot either face the truth, or worse, that the truth is as bad as some of us fear. interesting perspective. laura? mark warner, senator mark warner says the goal of the hearing was to determine if there was any actual fire. but so far, there s a great, great deal of smoke, he says, given the testimony that we heard today, do you see fire? there s a way people don t consider. that is circumstantial evidence do does. that s one of the reasons why michael flynn s testimony may indeed be very useful to the administration, to the investigation. because it may be about placing certain people together, or getting certain facts in a circumstantial way that will lead you to conclude the obvious. whatever that may be ultimately.
that like trump wants to be like putin. lots of people meet with russian diplomats. why did michael flynn and jeff sessions disclose it? he came forward after and said he met with 10 or 12 other diplomats during the course of the month. it is what they do. you have the phobia in place. the united states has surveilled hundreds of millions of its own citizens via the nsa that edward snowden revealed years ago. we are pointing our fingers of how bad this person is. do you think we are as bad as russia? not even close to it. i don t know enough about russia. when is the last time russia actually did something terrible to the united states? do you think that ronald