Prior to the Senate committee's hearing, questions were raised by Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, as to Barack Obama's handling of Flynn. "What if we just dismissed someone because a political opponent of the president had made an utterance?"
"We did what we were supposed to do".
Spicer also slammed Yates, referring to her as "someone who is not exactly a supporter of the president's agenda" and who was widely rumored to have supported Hillary Clinton for president. "You would argue that it was pretty irrational to act from that manner", Spicer said. And Yates implied that Flynn misled the Federal Bureau of Investigation during a January 24 interview about his conversations with Kislyak.
- Matt Viser (@mviser) May 9, 2017Spicer won't detail why Trump kept Flynn on the job for 11 days between WH seeing Yates evidence & Flynn axing but "we did the right thing".
In the almost three weeks that passed between finding out Flynn misled the Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the US and Flynn's resignation, Spicer said, there were no known restrictions to his access to information.
Sally Yates gave Republican senators a constitutional law lesson during her testimony on Monday.
Spicer told reporters that the day after Yates' initial meeting with McGahn on January 26, the White House counsel asked her to return "to discuss certain issues that she had left unclear at the time".
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who chairs the subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, said after the hearing, "I want to know what kind of system we have in place in America that allows us to incidentally collect on American citizens, political figures and who can obtain it and what they can do with it".
Yates calmly replied that she remembered her confirmation hearing as one "where you specifically asked me in that hearing that if the president asked me to do something that was unlawful or uconstitutional... would I say no?..."
On Feb. 13, The Post reported the Yates intervention with McGahn.
Yates testified that she had been so concerned over Flynn being "compromised" and open to "blackmail" that she had two meetings with Trump's White House lawyer, Don McGahn, to whom she expressed her fears. The President asked him to conduct a review of whether there was a legal situation there. It represents a serious breach when the Russians compromise a senior national security official with a direct reporting line to the president. When Yates then ordered the Justice Department not to defend Trump's executive order seeking a travel ban of seven Middle Eastern countries, Trump fired her.
A White House spokesperson sent a lengthy email minutes after this article initially published online with a subject line of "evidence".
Flynn became Trump's first appointment as his national security adviser, a key position in the White House overseeing the administration's foreign and defence policies. The Russian government-funded news outlet that U.S. intelligence agencies say played a key role in disseminating stolen emails meant to damage the candidacy of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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