Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified to a Senate subcommittee Monday that she told the Trump White House in January that former Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn had opened himself up to be "blackmailed by the Russians."
Yates recounted for the senators a meeting with White House Counsel Doug McGahn in President Donald Trump's first week as president. She said she provided McGahn with information that Flynn had been "compromised by the Russians" because of false statements he had made to the public.While Yates did not expand on the details of the case at the hearing, it has been widely reported that Yates told McGahn that Flynn had lied about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak before Trump's inauguration.Continue reading on VICE News.
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