spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. >> but that still leafs open the possibility there might have been over conversations about the sanctions -- >> i don't believe there were more conversations. i can confirm those elements were not part of that discussion. >> so there's been one call. i talked to general flynn about this again last night. one call talked about about four subjects. one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir. two was christmas and holiday greetings. three was to talk about a conference in syria on isis and four was to set up -- to talk about after the inauguration setting up a call between putin