How the White House Learned That Michael Flynn Was 'Compromised'

May 09, 2017, 04:54 AM

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Former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified Monday that she had warned the Trump Administration that former national security adviser Michael Flynn may have been "compromised" by Russia more than two weeks before Flynn was finally fired in February.

"We believed that General Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians," Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. "To state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians.