Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. As nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, muellers investigators have asked witnesses, including White House Counsel Don Mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as National Security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to
flynn.
but that is not accurate. less than one week after mr. trump was sworn into office, sally yates told the white house that flynn had lied to the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador, a falsehood that could make the national security adviser vulnerable to blackmail. those lies were all cited as the reason why the president fired flynn. we had wanted to tell the white house as quickly as possible to state the obvious, you don t want your national security adviser which mized compromised with the russians. reporter: and also barack obama warned donald trump about michael flynn in the oval office. it is true that president obama made it known that he wasn t exactly a fan of general flynn s. which frankly shouldn t come as a surprise to anyone given that general flynn had worked for president obama, was an outspoken critic of president obama s shortcomings. reporter: though the white house denied there were any concerns about what flynn might
contact with former national security adviser michael flynn about his cooperation with federal investigators. the president tweeted, it now seems that general flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. it would have been impossible for me to know this, but if that was the case and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was i not told so that i could make a change? but that s not accurate. less than one week after mr. trump was sworn into office, former acting attorney general sally yates told the white house that flynn had lied to the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador, a falsehood that could make the national security adviser vulnerable to blackmail. those lies were also cited as the reason why the president fired flynn. we had wanted to tell the white house as quickly as possible and to state the obvious, you don t want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. reporter: the president als
that s not accurate. less than one week he was sworn into office sally yates told the white house that flynn lied to the vice president. a falsehood that could make the national security adviser vulnerable to blackmail. those lies were cited as the reason the president fired flynn. we wanted to tell the white house as quickly as possible. to state the obvious, you don t want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. reporter: the president also knew there were long standing concerns about flynn. former president barack obama warned mr. trump about flynn in the oval office just days after the 2016 election. something the white house conceded to reporters. is it true president obama made it known that he wasn t exactly fan of general flynn s which shouldn t come as a surprise given that general flynn worked for president obama with an outspoken critic of president obama s shortcomings. reporter: the white house denied there were any concerns about what flynn w
resign. this president is well staffed, at least in his white house counsel s office. don mcgahn did the right thing and actually suck sealed in pce keeping the president from a very bad blow. look what the reaction would be in the press. i want to get at this conversation again. the president was talking, this is back in june, about firing bob mueller. his white house counsel says, no way. not going to do that. if you re bob mueller and the question is, did the president try to actively obstruct an investigation? now you have, he tried to fire me on the table, or thought about firing me on the table. he asked comey for a loyalty pledge to drop the flynn probe. fired flynn, but only have flynn s lying was made public. kept him on staft whf when he k he lied. then fired comey. wanted mueller fired.