congressman, standby. i want to get to breaking news of the fire truck security adviser, michael flynn, on russia. jim has some details. jim, this concerns the speech. that s exactly right. two issues here. the army requires that if you take a payment as a retired officer from a foreign government, you have to report that payment. there is no record of flynn reporting this payment. you have to include this in your application for security clearance and we have asked flynn s spokesperson and i spoke with him today whether he reported that and they had no comment. the website committee have asked that question and they have no answer. thank you very much for inviting me and having me here. recently fired national security adviser general michael flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars by russian state television for this speaking
campaign. cnn s chief national correspondent jim sciutto, anybody who watches knows it is an arm of the russian government and funded by the russian government. two potential issues here, one is legal, one is military. from the military side, if he took this payment, which we now have records that he did, and did not let the army know, which it has no records of him telling them, that violates military regulations even for a retired officer. but this is more important. if he did not report these payments from russian government on his security clearance form known as the sf-86, that breaks the law. that is a violation of the law. i asked a spoerks man today if he did report that on there, he didn t have an answer. thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. reporter: recently fired national security advisor general michael flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars by russian state television for this speaking engagement in moscow in 2015. potentially violating the law
thank you very much. reporter: tonight president trump ignoring a question about his fired national security adviser, michael flynn, after new documents show that flynn was warned he was prohibited from receiving payments from foreign governments. thank you so much for for inviting me and having me here. reporter: this one year on before he accepted tens of thousands of dollars from russian state television for this speaking engagement in moscow in 2015. the documents released by the house oversight committee show that the dia informed flynn that he could not receive, quote, consulting fees, gifts, travel expenses, honoria or salary from foreign governments during retirement. despite the warning, the dia told the committee in the record they could not locate records referring or relating to general flynn s receipt of money from a foreign source, and the dia did not locate records from general flynn seeking permission or approval for the receipt of money. and we have no evid