be leaving the podium. we ll discuss all of this. let s get straight to cnn s jim sciutto with more on our breaking news. jim, good evening to you. we have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the president s side. former national security adviser michael flynn failing to disclose a middle east trip about a russia deal. what can you tell us? reporter: that s exactly right. this is a letter from the ranking members, ranking democrats on the house oversight committee and house foreign affairs committee to general flynn s lawyers as well as two of his business partners asking about a trip in the summer of 2015 to saudi arabia, to arrange, it appears, a nuclear deal between saudi arabia and russia to build nuclear power plants. undisclosed on general flynn s security clearance renewal form when he took a position in the trump white house. they re also asking about a trip later that year in october of 2015 that general flynn provided no details for including where he stayed th