undermining the obama administration literally providing aid and comfort to an american foe, if not enemy. now, a couple of weeks later on january 14, vice-president pence spoke to general flynn who assured him sanctions had not been discussed with the russian ambassador. that was not true. the vice-president repeated that lie the next day on cbs. what i can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. then on january 26, after acting attorney general sally yat yates, an obama administration hold over, warned the white house counsel that the content of the call not surprisingly u.s. intelligence monitors the phone calls of foreign ambassadors, moreover yates to
before you were inaugurated about sanctions i haven t seen it. i ll look at that. would you consider that to be a truthful, honest and forthcoming answer by the president about the national security scandal? and another question, this one for the white house. did president trump lose confidence in his national security advisor because general flynn made that call and then lied about it to the public and to members of the administration? or did president trump lose confidence in flynn because we found out about the calls and the lies? cnn senior white house correspondent jim accosta is live for us on the north lawn. jim, we are just learning right now that the fbi apparently interviewed general flynn in the early days of the administration, that s according to a white house official. reporter: that s right, jake. cnn has confirmed from a white house official that fbi agents did interview the former national security advisor michael flynn about that phone call with the russian
needs to be an exhaustive regs into the ties between donald trump and his advisors and russi russia. will you support that? sure, i think we ought to get all of this behind us, jake. there s from march on and maybe even going back beyond that, but there s been a lot of nefarious activity from russia. i think the american people should understand fully what that is. we certainly should. and i think this additional component is something that in addition should be looked at. so, look, we should have a folsom investigation and everything occurring between russia, our elections and any alliances that they have here. your colleague senator mark warner of virginia, the democrat, vice chair of the senate intelligence committee says general flynn should testify under oath before lawmakers about this issue. do you agree? i think that would be a great contribution. i understand that if there happened to be other
know where you stand instantly. visit quickbooks.com. welcome back to the lead. sticking with politics now, the white house today insisting that ousted national security advisor michael flynn was asked to resign due to, quote, an eroding level of trust. now top senate democrats and republicans are calling for an investigation into flynn s contacts with moscow as we are now learning the fbi interviewed flynn about the call he took from the russian ambassador just days after president trump took office. joining me now to discuss this all is republican senator bob corker of tennessee, he s the chairman of the foreign relations committee. senator corker, always good to see you. thanks for joining us. i want to ask your colleague senate republican who says there
asked about it? yeah, a full day later we know donald trump watches television. he reads he s on twitter. he sees what everyone s talking about and that friday everyone was talking about general flynn. so, to feign there are two scenarios here. he s feigning ignorance over this or lying, and two, he actually isn t being briefed on the developing developments of a scandal. that s almost even more terrifying that he doesn t have an organization around him saying, this is the latest on this issue and you should probably be read in when you re asked about it on air force one tonight. jen psaki, as the former director of communications, if you had learned that s right, they don t have one, sean spicer is doing both jobs. are you volunteering? i m assuming you re not. no. on january 26, the white