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Watch Live Stream: Sean Spicer Delivers March 31 Briefing

The administration faced new questions Friday about reports that Gen. Mike Flynn is seeking immunity to testify in the Russia investigation.

WASHINGTON, DC — White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer delivered a televised briefing to reporters Friday afternoon.

The Trump administration is facing continued scrutiny about the investigation into the Trump campaign's potential connections to Russian intervention in the 2016 election — and this scrutiny was heightened Thursday night when the Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, was seeking immunity from prosecution as a condition for his testimony in the investigation.

When asked about whether or not White House officials knew any details about Rep. Devin Nunes' sources of information in his controversial role in the House's investigation of President Trump's wiretapping and hacking investigations, he said that reporters should be paying more attention to the substance of the accusations.

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Spicer defended Nunes' behavior in the investigation as "100 percent proper."

Trump said earlier in the day said on Twitter that Michael Flynn should get immunity as a part of the continuing investigations. A reporter asked whether this meant Trump thinks Flynn is guilty, given that he has previously said that the only guilty people need immunity. Spicer did not answer the question directly, and just said that Trump wanted Flynn to testify.

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In response to a question about whether the administration was worried Flynn might have damaging evidence regarding the president, Spicer said, "Nope."

Spicer tried to throw suspicion on Hillary Clinton, citing a debunked claim that she led a plan to sell uranium to the Russian government.

The press secretary also continued to bring on Elaine Farkas, a former administration official, over recent comments she made about Obama-era staff trying to preserve information about the investigation into Trump campaign connection with Russia. But as Snopes pointed out, nothing Farkas has said revealed anything not already publicly reported, and did not touch on Trump's accusations of Obama.

Asked why Trump hasn't declared China a currency manipulator from day one, as he promised to do during the campaign, Spicer said he'd like to just wait to see how the upcoming meeting with President Xi Jinping goes.

Spicer did not address a question about whether Bashar al-Assad was the legitimate president of Syria, and instead said that the administration recognizes the "reality" on the ground.

A reporter asked why Trump doesn't release his 2016 tax returns, given the fact that they can't be under audit. Spicer said that other financial disclosures show a lot of details on the president's finances.

However, the president has said that he would release his taxes when he wasn't under audit. He still has not done so.

Watch a live stream of the briefing below.

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