that we get this information to the white house, because in part because the vice-president was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> reporter: sally yates testifying to a senate judiciary subcommittee that she spoke to the white house on three occasions about flynn. the first two visits happened in the white house where she said flynn lied to vice president pence about the conversations he had with the russian ambassador. the vice-president maybe unintentionally disseminating that to the american people. >> we felt the vice-president was entitled to know that the information he had been given and that he was relaying to the american public wasn't true. >> what you are saying is that general flynn lied to the vice-president? >> that's certainly how it appeared, yes, because the vice-president went out and made statements about general flynn's conduct that he said were based