Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III charged former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Dec. 1 with making a false statement to the FBI about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. When he was forced out of the White House in February, officials said Flynn had misled the administration, including Vice President Pence, about his contacts with Kislyak. Flynn’s plea revealed that he was in touch with senior Trump transition officials before and after his communications with the ambassador. In a statement on Flynn’s guilty plea, White House lawyer Ty Cobb said: “The false statements involved mirror the false statements to White House officials which resulted in his resignation in February of this year. Kelner told Dowd on the call that he could no longer communicate with the White House lawyers.

Source: Washington Post December 01, 2017 14:35 UTC