briefing since before the president s trip, a very busy day. so the breaking news about national security advisor michael flynn. michael flynn was saying not too long ago he was not going to be commenting and not testifying, not providing information to the senate intelligence committee. they floated the prospect of holding flynn in contempt of congress and low and behold a source is telling cnn that yes, michael flynn will be providing some documents to the senate intelligence committee by june the sixth, about a week or so from now. we should point out that s not the only activity. boris epshtyn that he has also been requested by intelligence committee investigators to provide information to congress as well as michael cohen. we confirmed throughic mooal cohen directly. he confirmed that yes, he s been
prbreaking news. former national security advisor, michael flynn will hand over documents. the first batch will come by june 6th. a week from today. the growing russia investigation seems to be taking a toll on trump and they say being president is not agreeing with the president. he complained his first trip overseas was going to be too long. he s gained weight, he doesn t trust people around him, he s withdrawing. this is reporting from cnn chief political analyst who jones me now along with two trump bia biographers andal timothy bryan, trump nation, the art of being the donald. what have you learn snd. multiple sources who talked to donald trump and they ve all known him for years and what they see is the president said
cultivating relationships with trump aids including the first national security advisor, michael flynn, to influence trump. but back then they were saying the claims could have been exaggerated or made up. is that still the case? it is. it s a very important point. one of the things we ve been learning through the course of our reporting of russia trying to influence the election is how crafty they were and still are in trying to spread disinformation. our sources acknowledge it is possible in this case. but we do know that financial entanglements of some people associated with trump are part of the fbi investigation into medaling. as you can imagine they re not happy with this reporting and they say this is yet another round of false and unverified claims to smear the president. and should tell you that the office of director of national security and the fbi are not commenting and the president