Former Attorney General Sally Yates testified for three hours in Senate on Monday. In her testimony, she said she warned the White House about Michael Flynn.
Former Attorney General Sally Yates testified in Senate for over three hours about Russia on Monday.
In her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Yates, who was fired by President Donald Trump in January, said that she warned the White House that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his connections to Russia. She said that she worried that Flynn could be “essentially blackmailed by the Russians” in her testimony.
Yates said that she met with White House Counsel Donald McGahn on three occasions about the matter, with the first being January 26. In all three, she told McGahn that the statements made by Vice President Mike Pence to the media based on conversations with Flynn were false. She said she wanted to let the Trump administration know so they could take action against Flynn.
But that didn’ t happen until 18 days after she came forward when Flynn resigned under intense scrutiny .
Watch her full testimony in the video below:
“We weren’ t the only ones that knew all of this, that the Russians also knew about what General Flynn had done and the Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others, ” Yates said in her testimony.
Yates opened her testimony — alongside former Director of National Security James Clapper — saying that she promised to be as “fulsome and comprehensive as possible” with her answers to inquiries from senators on the committee.
Both Yates and Clapper were questioned on how several pieces of sensitive information regarding Flynn’s meetings with the Russian ambassador to the U. S. made it to newspapers, and both said they were unsure as to how that happened.
Former U. S. Attorney General Sally Yates is testifying before Senate on Russia on May 8. She’s married to Comer Yates, the couple has two children.
