Why did Sally Yates warn Trump about Michael Flynn?
May 08, 2017 · Yates was fired by President Donald Trump after 10 days as acting attorney general when she declined to enforce his executive order on travel and immigration. Obama Warned Trump About Flynn
What did Yates tell McGahn about Flynn's FBI interview?
Dec 04, 2017 · Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates McGahn, according to the sources, even asked Yates if she would object if the White House …
Why did the DOJ inform the White House about Flynn's conduct?
May 08, 2017 · Sally Yates: ‘We believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised’. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates cast a harsh light on the White House on Monday, detailing how she had informed Trump ...
What did Sally Yates say about the White House?
May 08, 2017 · May 8, 2017. WASHINGTON — Less than a week into the Trump administration, Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, hurried to the White House with an urgent concern. The president’s ...
Jan. 24, 2017
Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn was interviewed at the White House by the FBI. During their first in-person meeting, Yates told McGahn, Trump’s top legal adviser, about Flynn’s interview with the FBI.
Jan. 25, 2017
The Department of Justice received a detailed readout from the FBI agents who had interviewed Flynn. Yates said she felt “it was important to get this information to the White House as quickly as possible.”
Jan. 26, 2017
Yates called McGahn first thing that morning to tell him she had “a very sensitive matter" that had to be discussed face to face. McGahn agreed to meet with Yates later that afternoon. Later that day, Yates traveled to the White House along with a senior member of the DOJ’s National Security Division, who was overseeing the matter.
Jan. 27, 2017
Yates’ second in-person meeting with McGahn happened the next day. McGahn called Yates in the morning and asked if she could come back to his office, and she returned that afternoon. One of the topics discussed was whether Flynn could be prosecuted for his conduct.
Jan. 30, 2017
Yates called McGahn “first thing Monday morning” to tell him he would be allowed to “come over and review the underlying evidence.”
Feb. 9, 2017
Pence first heard that Flynn misled him about his contact with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, according to White House officials, two full weeks after Yates first met with McGahn.
Feb. 13, 2017
Eighteen days after Yates raised the concern about Flynn to the White House, Flynn resigned from his post as national security adviser, pushed out by Trump.
Why was Sally Yates fired?
Fired acting AG to testify on Russian election interference. Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend immigration order.
What did Yates say about Flynn?
In telling the White House, Yates said that she was balancing sharing the "critical" information with the needs of the FBI but that once Flynn was interviewed, there was no longer a concern about an impact on an investigation. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Yates whether Flynn's conduct was serious enough that it compromised the security ...
Who is Sally Yates?
Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters. — -- Sally Yates, the former acting United States attorney general who drew the ire of President Donald Trump for issuing instructions to the Department of Justice not to defend his first travel ban executive order, testified that she informed the White House counsel that the Department of Justice believed ...
Who warned Trump about Flynn?
Yates alerted the White House about connections between Flynn and Russia. She warned that Flynn was at risk of being blackmailed; Obama personally warned Trump two days after the election.
Did the FBI know about Flynn?
The FBI and Department of Justice knew about Flynn's conduct, and more important, "the Russians also knew about what Gen. Flynn had done" and that he had misled Pence, Yates said. That created a "compromise situation," in which Flynn "essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians."
What is the relationship between Yates and the White House?
The relationship between Yates and the White House is complicated by the circumstances surrounding her firing. In January she instructed the Justice Department not to defend Trump's controversial order limiting travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.
When was Sessions confirmed?
Sessions was confirmed — amid questions about his own relationship with Kislyak — on Feb. 8 and sworn in the next day. Sessions said in March that he will recuse himself from any DOJ investigations concerning the 2016 presidential campaign.
Did Flynn mislead Pence?
By then, it had been reported in the news media that Flynn had misled Pence and other officials when he told them his phone calls with Russia’s ambassador did not include a discussion of sanctions. Yates said Russia was aware that Flynn had misled his colleagues and could have used that information against him.
Is Graham a hawk?
Graham is a staunch Russia hawk who has been one of the president’s fiercest Republican critics. He has vowed to get to the bottom of Russia’s meddling in the presidential election and any Trump campaign ties to Moscow. Graham said last week the White House raised no objections to Monday’s hearing with Yates.
Jan. 24, 2017
Jan. 25, 2017
Jan. 26, 2017
- Yates called McGahn first thing that morning to tell him she had “a very sensitive matter" that had to be discussed face to face. McGahn agreed to meet with Yates later that afternoon. Later that day, Yates traveled to the White House along with a senior member of the DOJ’s National Security Division, who was overseeing the matter. It was Yates’ first meeting with McGahn in his office, w…
Jan. 27, 2017
- Yates’ second in-person meeting with McGahn happened the next day. McGahn called Yates in the morning and asked if she could come back to his office, and she returned that afternoon. One of the topics discussed was whether Flynn could be prosecuted for his conduct. One of the questions McGahn asked Flynn was, “Why does it matter to DOJ if one White House official lies t…
Jan. 30, 2017
- Yates called McGahn “first thing Monday morning” to tell him he would be allowed to “come over and review the underlying evidence.” She didn’t hear back from him until that afternoon. However, she said she doesn’t know whether McGahn or anyone from his office came to look at the material “because that was my last day with DOJ.” Yates left her post with the DOJ that day beca…
Feb. 9, 2017
- Pence first heard that Flynn misled him about his contact with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, according to White House officials, two full weeks after Yates first met with McGahn.
Feb. 13, 2017
- Eighteen days after Yates raised the concern about Flynn to the White House, Flynn resigned from his post as national security adviser, pushed out by Trump. When asked whether Flynn might have been compromised during the 18-day period he remained national security advisor, Yates said she doesn’t have an answer for that, but that she was “really con...
Concerns About Flynn
The FBI and Department of Justice knew about Flynn's conduct, and more important, "the Russians also knew about what Gen. Flynn had done" and that he had misled Pence, Yates said. That created a "compromise situation," in which Flynn "essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians." Yates testified today bef…
How We Got Here
- Yates' testimony today comes after she notified the White House of her intent to appear before the House Intelligence Committee in March. That hearing was then postponed by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the committee, leading Yates' lawyer to question whether the White House took action to prevent her testimony — a suggestion the administration denied. "I h…
Yates and The Trump Administration
- The relationship between Yates and the White House is complicated by the circumstances surrounding her firing. In January she instructed the Justice Department not to defend Trump's controversial order limiting travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. She took a moment to defend her actions at today...
Russian interference
- Asked whether the U.S. government is doing enough to deter attacks by Russia, Yates said, "I think they are coming back and we need to do more to ensure that folks out there know when they are looking at news feeds that it may not be real news that they are reading." She added, "I think that we have to do more to deter the Russians and it wouldn't hurt to prosecute a few folks, but I don'…
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