What happened in the 18 days between when the White House received a warning about Flynn and his firing?
"But also more importantly, for the discussion today about Russian Federation, [she was] really laying out that this was just not a heads-up she gave the White House".
Republican Sen. John Cornyn said her actions with regard to the executive order were "enormously disappointing" and accused her of undermining the powers of the President because she disagreed with Trump's order "as a policy matter". Mr Obama had cautioned against Mr Flynn, whom he fired in 2014 as head of the Defence Intelligence Agency because of his poor record in administration and personnel management.
She had come here, given a heads-up, told us there were materials and, at the same time, we did what we should do. She was anxious because she suspected she was not the only one who knew that Flynn had lied.
"This is someone who ultimately didn't even want to enforce it", White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. Yates had been fired during that gap.
Spicer also said that the White House team took the subsequent 11 days to account for "an element of due process, reviewing the situation".
"The process worked, frankly, when you look at the time we had to make the decision", Spicer said.
Still, in the short term, the testimony of Yates likely means another lost day ahead for the White House as it uses up time and political energy brushing off a new round of questions and allegations about ties to Russian Federation.
It's clear from recent revelations that President Obama and his holdovers had a morbid fear of Lt. Gen. Flynn, an anti-Islamic terror hawk, and were gunning for him early in the transition, long before rumors he was involved in any alleged Russian conspiracy. "Flynn was cooperating with Russians, not being blackmailed by them".
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"The Russians also knew about what Gen. Flynn had done, and the Russians also knew that Gen. Flynn had misled the vice president and others", Yates said.
Trump tweeted Monday that Flynn was "given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration - but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that".
"He could face criminal prosecution if he lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, yes".
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017Biggest story today between Clapper & Yates is on surveillance.
A person familiar with Yates' plans says she is likely to testify she expressed alarm about discrepancies between the statements and what occurred. Trump immediately fired her.
Yates is expected to illuminate what led to the ouster of Michael Flynn.
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"That created a compromise situation, where the national security adviser could essentially be blackmailed by the Russians", she said.
Flynn previously said, through a lawyer, that he would testify in exchange for immunity.
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