the call that he made over to sessions office was about the conference call, not about this issue of the recusal. let me read you a little bit of the response here. he said for eight months the narrative was that i was out of the loop and now i m part of it? i don t think so. so spicer pushing back on the suggestion that he was part of an effort to get sessions to stay on top of this case, however, this story is clearly not going away. all right. abby phillip, so appreciate the reporting. thank you. here to discuss, good morning to you. let me read from a bit of fire and fury here. i have been working through this and i want to read from the author s notes here and we can put it up on the screen. sometimes i have let the players offer their versions in turn allowing the reader to judge them. in other instances i have through a consistency and accounts and through sources i
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 lesays 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
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