floor of the senate. president also looks forward to seeing doctor scott gottlieb to serve as commissioner of the fda. as far as the paris climate agreement the president has been meeting with his team for quite awhile on this matter and he will not be making an announcement regarding that agreement until after he returns from the g-7. with that, i d be glad to take your questions. caitlin. thank you, sean. we have two questions for you today. first one is, why did the president wait 18 days to fire mike flynn after the white house was informed of his conduct and warned that he was a potential target for russian blackmail? because you realize the timing of this makes a logical thing that he would have been not been fired if the story had not come out in the media. let s look at the timeline. sally yates came here on the 26th of january. then she informed the counsel s office that there were materials that were relevant to the
really something that makes a ton of sense. he asked for it. he got it the first time. i don t think he would go back and say, would i have asked for it here here and here? he got it. can you speak on, did the white house put any security restrictions on mike flynn at any time? was he limited to access to classified information, national secrets? i m not aware of any. the decision that we made was the right one. the president made a decision. he stands by it. jenna? you have yates coming to the white house on january 26th and the 27th. you then have mcgann going to the doj february 2nd to see those documents. it s not until february 13th that flynn actually resigned. tell us what happened between,
committed crimes and whether in her view she would issue a recommendation on terminating him. she cited all the reasons would you relieve him of duty. the white house has a decision to make. jeremy, same question. what did you learn? three conversations between them. wasn t a mere heads up as was stated from the podium it was. three subsequent conversations. on the 26th of january, the 27th of janel and a phone call on the 28th sheflt laid out in granular detail, his lie, the fact the russians knew about it, that the vice president was misleading the that be. she said i m telling you so you can remove this clear and treatment dags. and within statement by jim clapper if ever there was a clarion call for vigilance, this
talk about that. president trump, i hope you re watching, we re okay with talking about it and, in fact, the obama administration fired, fired general flynn. jeremy, is the president backing himself into a corner here? about a 1.5 million have top security clearance. that s not unusual. the obama administration did let flynn go over mismanagement of the defense intelligence agency prior to that. but it was really the incoming team that vetted flynn for the top job of national security adviser. and most tellingly on december 29th, the very day that the president was imposing sanctions on russia for their interference in the election, flynn was having a phone call with the russian ambassador. when sally yates who will testify today, went to don mccann on the 26th of january, she wasn t just saying hey, here s a head s up about something that may be going on. she was informing the white house there was a federal criminal encounter intelligence investigation. before that they did not kno
previous administration. that s the day general flynn had a conversation with the russian ambassador, okay? mark that date. now we move into january. a lot of action in january. sean spicer apparently alluded to on the 13th of january inauguration date on the 20th. the first official press conference from the white house when spicer talked about flynn s contacts as well. it was after that date where there was contact on behalf of the f.b.i. where they interviewed general flynn at the white house or some other location. and then on the 26th of january is day the department of justice at that time informed the white house of the information they had regarding general flynn s conversations. now you move to february and this is what we understand. it was the 9th of february where mike pence was brought into the operation and you go to this past monday night when mike flynn exited there in the west wing of the white house. so karl, those are the big events we think right now. what is the ma