Fbi. And that leads to questions about the president s shifting defense of flynn. And about whether the president of the United States tried to obstruct justice. So lets just take a look at the timeline here. Starting with january 24th, four days after Donald Trumps inaugurati inauguration, flynn talks to the fbi about his conversations with Russian Ambassador kislyak, then he told the fbi he did not discuss sanctions. Now in his plea agreement, he admits that it was a lie. He asked russia not to retaliate against sanctions imposed by the obama administration. January 26th, anyoneacting attorney general sally yates warns white house counsel, don mcgahn, that flynn was lying about calls with kislyak. We now know that after some point after that conversation, mcgahn told President Trump he believed flynn lied to the fbi and to Vice President pence. February 13th, flynn is force the ed to resign but the president continues to defend him. Just three days later blaming flynns resignation on
January 26th, then acting attorney general sally yates warns white house counsel, don mcgahn, that flynn was lying about calls with kislyak. We now know that after some point after that conversation, mcgahn told President Trump he believed flynn lied to the fbi and to Vice President pence. February 13th, flynn is forced to resign but the president continues to defend him. Just three days later blaming flynns resignation on his lies to the Vice President , never mentioning the fbi. He didnt tell the Vice President of the United States the facts and then he didnt remember and that just wasnt acceptable to me. Now the Vice President now the president , i should say, tweeting this this weekend. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. President s personal attorney telling cnn he wrote that tweet, a claim that has raised some