ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SALLY YATES/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is expected to testify before Congress next week that she warned White House officials that former national security adviser Michael Flynn wasn’t being truthful when he denied having discussed U.S. sanctions with a top Russian diplomat, according to people familiar with her version of events.
The testimony is likely to contradict White House assertions that Ms. Yates had merely given White House counsel Donald McGahn a ‘heads up’ in a Jan. 26 meeting that Mr. Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his conversations with a Russian diplomat.
The vice president had earlier said that Mr. Flynn hadn’t discussed sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. The conversations between Mr. Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak took place on Dec. 29, the same day the Obama administration levied sanctions on Moscow for alleged meddling in the U.S. election. The timing of the conversation was coincidental, said Mr. Pence.”
-Del Quentin Wilber and Aruna Viswanatha, “Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to Testify on Warnings Over Michael Flynn,” The Wall Street Journal online, May 2, 2017 8:43pm