Make. other news tonight, president trump national former national security advisor yet another investigation what s new. the defense department is investigating him for possibly violating u.s. army regulations but violating the law, for not reporting that he received a foreign payment in the amount of tens of thousands of dollars from a hostile foreign government. and that is significant. in addition it to that some of these documents released bit democrats on the house over sight committee today bely past explanation that s michael flynn has given, saying i kept the dia defense agency i kept him informed. in fact the dia has no record to show he informed them of this in advance. so the story in his continually
Same thing as breaking the law. do you agree? is this a cover up? i don t know whether it s a cover up. what i do know they re not producing documents relating to either the vetting of michael flynn or the firing of michael flynn. i m almost certain such documents exist and i think the white house must produce these because as i said before there s so many questions at this point and there s just no answers. at the end of the day the reason this matters is we kneneed to k the state of our national security whether we re kpr compromised and how did we get to the position where michael flynn could become the national security advisor after so many extensive contacts with russia and in the process receiving a lot of money from them. congressman murphy thank you very much we appreciate your time. thank you. when we come back the house s vote to repeal and
In this case lieutenant general flynn was a three star general officer. no, it s really it s not that our military is running rampant, don t believe that for a second. i ask tell you this. for the most part we deserve the recognition of having the finest military in the world. but the fact of the matter is general officers know the rules. i have no doubt that three star and four star, every general officer rank in the books knows the rules here and a lot of this is a matter of common sense. if these rules were violated i can tell you it s either a matter of not having common sense or being arrogant. i m not suggesting we know what happened in the case of lieutenant general flynn yet. but if it turns out that he has done what we are investigating, and again i agree glen fine is going to do an excellent job because he has the resources,
National security advisor michael flynn was warned not to accept payments from foreign governments a full year before taking money from russian for a speaking engagement. the pentagon now investigating that. we have our analysts with us from yahoo news and former inspector general for dod. talk to us about the rules that michael flynn broke here and how serious of a charge is this? don, of course the rules regarding the imogualste kauds and taking payments from foreign government is serious. general officers typically know what they re doing, they know their business, they know when they ve done something right or wrong. we don t know yet whether lieutenant general flynn did anything wrong but if he did not
Flynn under investigation from the defense department. he didn t get permission to travel to moscow was paid by the kremlin. allegedly didn t disclose that he was warned about accepting payments from foreign governments. do you think michael flynn broke the law? i agree with the chairman yesterday who said we haven t seen any evidence he complied with the law. to alert the viewers, the law is very clear, a retired military officer must get permission from the american government if he or she is to accept any foreign payments or payments from any foreign governments. that is a warning given to every military officer before they leave the service. michael flynn did receive that warning. there s no evidence he did comply with that law and now we know the army inspector general is inspecting these violations as the oversight committee is.