Former Acting Attorney General Yates says she was concerned Russians could blackmail Flynn
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates says the White House asked the FBI whether firing Mike Flynn would interfere with the agency's counterintelligence investigation about the national security adviser's contacts with Russian figures.
Yates told a Senate subcommittee on Monday that when she met with White House counsel Don McGahn, she told him that firing the national security adviser would not interfere in the FBI investigation.
Yates is testifying about going to the White House to report Flynn's contacts with Russians that ran counter to what he told Vice President Mike Pence, and what Pence told the public. Yates was raising concerns to the Trump administration about contacts between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.
