>> after donald trump won the election, president obama reportedly warned him not to hire flynn. flynn was, in fact, tapped, however, as national security adviser on november 17. on december 1, flynn and jared kushner met with the russian ambassador who later told moscow that kushner asked about setting up backchannel for communications between the trump team and the kremlin. later that month, flynn spoke with kislyak, the ambassador more than once, including after obama imposed sanctions on russia for election meddling. flynn was sworn in as national security adviser january 22nd of 2017. by that time, news of his conversations about the russian ambassador had emerged, and vice president mike pence had been asking about them. two days after his swearing in, flynn was interviewed by the fbi. january 26, then-acting attorney general sally yates told the white house about flynn lying