Senior official to learn of flynns interview during a meeting on january 26 with acting attorney general sally yates in which she warned him that flynn had lied to vicepresident mike pence and other top Trump Officials about his conversation with the Russian Ambassador, sergey kislyak, and could be vulnerable to blackmail by the russian government. Mcgahn briefed trump, bannon and white house chief of staff Reince Priebus on his meeting with yates that same day, including news of flynns fbi interview. People familiar with the matter said. It is important to remind everyone that it was january 27th, the very next day, that donald trump invited then fbi director jim comey to dinner. A rare gesture for any sitting president. But particularly curious in light of what we now know donald trump had learned the day before. Heres comey on that invitation. With regard to the several of these conversations, in his interview with lester holt on nbc, the president said i had dinner with him. He wan
He pleaded guilty this aftern n afternoon. Nbcs ari melber putting the development in context telling us, mueller is showing how tough he will be on anyone who lies or contributes to obstruction, including lawyers caught up in h or working on the matter. This is as donald trump blusters away on twitter about the significance of fridays 13 indictments of russian nationals for their role in meddling in the 2016 president ial election. The president tweeting this morning that it was all obamas fault and pointing to coverage on fox friends to prove it. Thank you to fox friends on the great timeline on all the failures the Obama Administration had against russia including crimea, syria, and so much more. We are now starting to win again. And this, ive been much tougher on russia than obama, just look at the facts. Total fake news. The fake news is the part of that tweet where President Trump claims to have been tougher on russia. A claim Sarah Huckabee sanders echoed in the White House Brie
With Jared Kushner and jason greenblatt. Do you have anything concrete to tell us about any sort of positive movement whatsoever from all of this . Again, we think that the meetings that took place over the last week with Senior Advisor Jared Kushner and special representative jason greenblatt. They met with a number of officials and principals in saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, israel and qatar last week. They discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. Were going to continue those conversations and were committed to the peace effort and were going to keep working forward with those conversations are productive. Julie . They said at the Border Protection they are no longer going to be referring people without authorization if they are traveling with children which is essentially return to the Obama Administration practice and administrations before that. Does the president support that approach, and if so, does he regret trying to push forward on a zer