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reporter: sally yates testifying to a senate judiciary subcommittee that she spoke to the white house on three occasions about flynn. the first two happened in white house where she said flynn lied to vice-president pence about conversations he had with the russian ambassador. the vice-president maybe unintentionally disseminating that to the american people. we felt the vice-president was entitled to know that the information he had been given and that he was relaying to the american public wasn t true. what you are saying is that general flynn lied to the vice-president? that s certainly how it appeared, yes, because the vice-president went out and made statements about general flynn s conduct that he said were based on what general flynn had told him. we knew that that just flat wasn t true. reporter: her biggest concern was that the russians would use that as leverage over flynn. not only did we believe the russians knew this, but that
that we get this information to the white house, because in part because the vice-president was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. reporter: sally yates testifying to a senate judiciary subcommittee that she spoke to the white house on three occasions about flynn. the first two visits happened in the white house where she said flynn lied to vice president pence about the conversations he had with the russian ambassador. the vice-president maybe unintentionally disseminating that to the american people. we felt the vice-president was entitled to know that the information he had been given and that he was relaying to the american public wasn t true. what you are saying is that general flynn lied to the vice-president? that s certainly how it appeared, yes, because the vice-president went out and made statements about general flynn s conduct that he said were based
yates when she was in place still as the acting attorney general. so i m sure the administration is not looking forward to this testimony on either end. sean spicer claimed at the time that he was okay, that the white house was okay with sally yates testifying. but that was after the fact. the most interesting thing is the idea this is expanding beyond the roll. shifting gears over to europe right now, ivanka trump, daughter of the president, official white house advisor, that was some pickly questioning right there. real heavyweights, yes. that s a tough position to be in overseas as an official representative of the united states. that s right. this is something that the white house cooked up. we know trump relies on family and business allies. he s put them in all kinds of
we re back with congressman adam schiff. now in turmoil as the parallel probe in the senate is moving forward. chairman devin nunes says the hearing probably won t hold any hearings until after the easter recess. that s almost a month away. do you believe he is trying to delay any serious progress in this investigation? it certainly is deeply disappointing if that s the pog he is taking because there s no reason to delay the hearing that we had scheduled for this week. as we were talking about earlier, if this is all about trying to avoid sally yates testifying. the public is in favor of it. there is no reason it put it off. i think in addition to sally yates testimony we will learn from clapper and brennan about