Russians, and he was talking with trump transition officials specifically about the fact that he was having conversations with the russians about them taking it easy on the issue of russian sanctions. Now, thats important because the white house has portrayed mike flynn contacting the russians about sanctions as some kind of betrayal, right . Remember, their line was that they had to fire mike flynn, they had to obtain his resignation because he lied about his contacts with the russians to Vice President mike pence. Yeah. Who could have known what mike flynn was really up to . It was such a betrayal. He lied. Well, that all fell apart last month when the New York Times published direct quotes from emails that had reportedly been sent among top transition staff discussing just exactly what mike flynn was doing with the russians. Quote, on december 29th, a transition advisor k. T. Mcfarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama Administration