Times reported several trump aides had repeated contacts with russian intelligence in the year runup before the election. They cite electronic intercepts. Just today a question along those same lines was asked of sean spicer at the briefing. Back in january, the president said that nobody in his campaign had been in touch with the russians. Now, today, can you still say definitively that nobody on the Trump Campaign, not even General Flynn, had any contact with the russians before the election . My understanding is that what General Flynn has now expressed is that during the transition period well, we were very clear that during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador m talking about during the campaign. There is nothing that would conclude to me that anything has changed with respect to that time period. A quick timeline with how we got here. December 29, the Obama Administration reveals new sanctions on russia. December 30. Putin says russia will not retaliate. That sa
that it was a trust issue is what they re trying to make this out to be. i was speaking tonight with a senior white house source, and i asked that person why the world vice president pence wasn t told about this sooner. and the source said it was attorney-client privilege. don mcgann only told the president because that s who he is sworn to, and the president didn t tell vp pence because this was a very close hold, because they were still investigating exactly what happened. there are a lot of questions surrounding that, though, because mike pence went on national television and vouched for general mike flynn, said he did not talk sanctions. there s also a lot of questions surrounding how in the world general flynn could forget about talking sanctions when there is a lot of questions about how much of the conversation, at least one, that he had with the russian ambassador was dedated to talking sanctions. s not something you forget, it is a breach of protocol.
asked that person why the world vice president pence wasn t told about this sooner. and the source said it was attorney-client privilege. don mcgann only told the president because that s who he is sworn to, and the president didn t tell vp pence because this was a very close hold, because they were still investigating exactly what happened. there are a lot of questions surrounding that, though, because mike pence went on national television and vouched for general mike flynn, said he did not talk sanctions. there s also a lot of questions surrounding how in the world general flynn could forget about talking sanctions when there is a lot of questions about how much of the conversation, at least one, that he had with the russian ambassador was dedicated to talking sanctions. it s not something you forget, it is a breach of protocol. even this white house official told me this was something that they cannot understand why flynn would mislead the administration