General Flynn Warned About Foreign Payments.
BRIGGS: All right. New trouble this morning for former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his decision to accept payments from Turkey and Russia after he retired from the military. We have new information that the Pentagon inspector general has opened an investigation into the retired Army general and that the Defense Intelligence Agency warned Flynn back in 2014 against accepting foreign payments.</s>ROMANS: That's according to documents obtained by the House Oversight Committee, released by ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings. He says the documents raise grave questions about why Flynn concealed the payments.</s>BRIGGS: When asked about all of this, Press Secretary Sean Spicer says he thinks it's "appropriate" for the Pentagon to look into Flynn if they think there is wrongdoing but questioned why Flynn wasn't more thoroughly vetted. Spicer pinned that on the Obama administration.</s>SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: He was issued a security clearance under the Obama administration in the spring of 2016. The trip and transactions that you're referring to occurred in December of 2015. All of that clearance was made by the Obama -- during the Obama administration and apparently with knowledge of the trip that he took.</s>ROMANS: One source familiar with the case admits Flynn did make a mistake, failing to fill out the proper forms seeking permission to get paid by a Russian state T.V. channel for that 2015 trip to Moscow. But the source strongly denies any effort to conceal the payment and says Flynn briefed the Defense Intelligence Agency before and after that trip.</s>BRIGGS: Boy, that story is far from over. Time for a look at what's coming up on "NEW DAY." Chris Cuomo joining us this morning. Great to see you, my friend, and again --</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST: Always.</s>BRIGGS: -- no shortage of news for you guys.</s>CUOMO: You know, it is true. There are a lot of headlines but it's interesting, Dave, how they're starting to weave together, you know. This is coming into what we're seeing as a rhythm and a pattern coming out of the White House and how we are posturing as America, at home and around the world. Just recently we've seen the president take an aggressive stance and now, there's a new high point to that with North Korea. We're going to be live in Pyongyang with reaction to the president's comments about how there really could be an imminent bad situation between the two countries and their leaders. Plus, we're going to talk to the reporters who did interviews that are creating these headlines with the president, getting inside those conversations. Plus, the future of the Democratic Party. It is easy to stand back and watch the difficulties going on within the GOP right now and the White House, but what should they be doing to forward the American cause? Senator Bernie Sanders is helping to shape that answer. He's going to be on "NEW DAY" to be tested.</s>BRIGGS: Well, and you wonder, Chris, who is the Democratic leader on all of this? You can say what you will about the bad news for Republicans but it's worse for Democrats, you might argue.</s>CUOMO: Well, fair point. When you are the out party you usually are a little bit more formless, right, because you have commander in chief -- you have the presidency as a putative head of your party's organization efforts, but that's not an excuse. At the end of the day if you want to make progress, which the Democrats have been big on, right -- they said they would be different than the years of obstruction -- the proof is in the performance.</s>BRIGGS: Right.</s>ROMANS: All right.</s>BRIGGS: And what's their agenda?</s>ROMANS: They are the wilderness who's going to lead them out. All right, Chris. Thank you so much. Nice to see you.</s>CUOMO: Happy Friday.</s>ROMANS: Yes, you too.</s>BRIGGS: And to you.</s>ROMANS: All right, if you have money in the stock market, President Trump's policies are helping you make money. The investor class doing wonderfully under the presidency of the guy who won champion of the working class. How do the gains in the stock market, though, stack up against past presidents? We'll check -- get a check on CNN Money Stream next.