and then he took that call on the 28th and the call centered around the logistics of setting up a call with the president of russia and the president-elect after he was sworn in. don t you love that pause just before he says logistics? spicer says he spoke with him on the 28th, not the 29th. hours later, spicer changed his story. that call took place on the 29th of december, at which time general flynn was asked whether or not he would help set up a call after the inauguration with president putin and then president trump. the only conversation that general flynn had was one to wish him a merry christmas. two, to express his sympathies for the loss of life that occurred during the plane crash that took the lives of their military choir. so spicer comes out to correct. he says he did talk michael flynn did talk to the ambassador on the day that the sanctions
were announced but total coincidence, he was just calling to talk about christmas and to express condolences. that s it. but a few days after that, reuters reports that flynn had not just one but five calls with kislyak on december 29th, the day of the sanctions. five calls to say merry christmas and keep offering condolences? weeks later, at his first official briefing as press secretary, spicer said it was just a single call but flynn discussed four topics, none of which were sanctions. there s been one call, i talked to general flynn about this again last night. one call, talked about four subjects. one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir. two was christmas and holiday greetings. three was to facilitate or ta touk about a conference in syria on isis and four was to set up to talk about after the inauguration, setting up a call between president putin and president trump.
coincidence, he was just calling to talk about christmas and to express condolences. that s it. but a few days after that, reuters reports that flynn had not just one but five calls with kislyak on december 29th, the day of the sanctions. five calls to say merry christmas and keep offering condolences? weeks later, at his first official briefing as press secretary, spicer said it was just a single call but flynn discussed four topics, none of which were sanctions. there s been one call, i talked to general flynn about this again last night. one call, talked about four subjects. one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir. two was christmas and holiday greetings. three was to facilitate or ta touk about a conference in syria on isis and four was to set up to talk about after the inauguration, setting up a call between president putin and president trump. that would not be the last
contacts with the russian ambassador. so let s pause for a minute and break down the time line leading up to the events we are here today. according to the court filing flib talked to the russian ambassador kislyak asking him to delay a vote on the resolution regarding israel settlements. we just learned that jared kushner was one directed him to make the call. flash forward to 29th of december talks to him again about russia response to that. those are the two conversations fbi says flynn lied to them about. and then nearly a month later the white house was still denying that there was anything inappropriate about those contacts. i talked to general flynn about this again last night. one call talked about four subjects. one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir.
spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. but that still leafs open the possibility there might have been over conversations about the sanctions i don t believe there were more conversations. i can confirm those elements were not part of that discussion. so there s been one call. i talked to general flynn about this again last night. one call talked about about four subjects. one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took their military choir. two was christmas and holiday greetings. three was to talk about a conference in syria on isis and four was to set up to talk about after the inauguration setting up a call between putin