James Woolsey said the meeting occurred in September inside the Essex House hotel in New York. Woolsey told the paper he found the conversation startling and possibly illegal. Woolsey, who served under President Clinton, told The Journal that the conversation “seemed to be naïve.”“I didn’t put a lot of credibility in it," he said. Trump was unaware Flynn was consulting on behalf of the Turkish government, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary said earlier this month. Flynn wrote an op-ed in The Hill published in November about the U.S.’ relationship with Turkey.

Source: Fox News March 25, 2017 05:26 UTC