wleefg that in this country. so sally yates goes to the white house and says you have a problem. what did we learn beyond that? the tension at the heart of the query. was this an outside in issue of russia in the united states? or people in the united states or the united states government, flynn being a key individual, who were somehow either trying to assist the russians. so number one, that sally quinn was compromised to the degree that they wanted to intercede. something we heard before but never on the record from her. that flynn lied to officials. and number three, she declined to say, and this is the only sliver of good news for the ump whi house i whawas i think a difficult hearing for them. she declined toay whether he
i would guess the fbi. if the intelligence community and the attorney general knew all this information about mr. flynn, how did he get a security clearance? knew what? that he had a conversation with the russian ambassador about sanctions? well, that was the 29th of december. january 19th i think the president was sworn in. 17th, something like that. how did he get a security clearance? well, he had one for a long time. as he career military intelligence officer. i don t know the specifics of when his fell due. the system every five years, the current system every five years you re supposed to get a
law? that s right. is it fair to say that incidental collection occurs even in the united states? that s correct as well. so there are two sbagss we would have found out what general flynn said to the are russian ambassador. if there was a fisa warrant focused on him, was there? are you asking either one of you. i m not going to answerful? f he wasn t talking to the russians, we ve had a hearing for no good reason. clearlily he s talking to the russians and we know about it. so if there s to fisa warrant, i ll going to find out about it, by the way. the other way is if he was incidentally surveiled. so those are the two options. do we know who unmasked the conversation between russian
regard to russian interference with our 2016 election and the trump team s connections to these efforts, we need to get to the bottom of this. so i thank chairman graham is our ranking white house members for these hearings. i just had a number of town hall meetings and hundreds of people came. and believe me, they care that we get to the bottom of this. the trump administration blames president obama for failing to suspend general flynn s clearance. in a press conference today, sean spicer said, quote, every one in the gov goes through the same process and quote, he said, quote, there s no difference of a security clearance once it is issued. and basically as far as this administration is kerneled, nothing more needed to be done by them regarding general flynn s clearance. director clapper, isn t it true the fbi has a separate vetting
acting attorney general conveyed. i don t know how much of that made its way to the president. precisely. that is a concern that i have. that it sounds like perhaps the president was not aware. and in fact going on in march, the president tweeted that flynn should be given immunity, and the fbi satisfies investigation is, quote, a witch hunt. so i would like the and both of you, should these tweets, these kinds of tweets and other similar assertions by the president have any influence at all on the fbi s ongoing investigation into russian interference in our elections and team trump s investigations into these efforts? it shouldn t and i am confident it the won t. i hope so. i have a question about the foreign agent registration act. a number of trump administration officials are belatedly disclosing and registering their work on behalf of foreign