russia s intensions and the lengths they went to reach them. on russian state sponsored tv in recent days, sergey kislyak, russia s former ambassador to washington, the man at the center of michael flynn s legal troubles, had some great lapses with his hosts as they mocked the mueller investigation. translator: if it is not difficult, can you list those with whom you met and spoke with on the phone so we know who will soon be going to jail? or at least be summoned for questioning? flynn, sessions, who else? translator: there are two problems here. first, i will never do this. second, the list will be so long that i won t be able to tell you in 20 minutes. reporter: it carries a sting as we get new information from court filings about flynn s urgent back channel calls with kislyak. president obama just ordered sanctions to retaliate for russia s meddling in the elections. after flynn consulted with a top trump aid at mar-a-lago, he
summoned for questioning, flynn, sessions, who else? translator: there are two problems here. first, i will never do this. second, the list will be so long that i won t be able to tell you in 20 minutes. reporter: it carries a sting tonight. as we get new information from court filings about flynn s urgent back-channel calls with after flynn consulted with a top trump aide as mar-a-lago, he called kizzine lack and asked for russia not to escalate the situation. a source told cnn he told him they would revisit u.s. sanctions and look favorably on russia if it didn t retaliate. key question tonight. what were the trump teams motives for reaching out? the larger trump team wants a better relationship with russia. i think for flynn, his motivation had to do with what he saw as the main threat fwens against the united states, which was not russians interfering in our election and trying to understood mine our democracy,