the white house wrote a memo how they were explaining the departure of michael flynn. what happened there? so there was a multi-page memo written, it was nobt just about sean spicer, sammy yates the deputy attorney general and how the flynn case would have went and frankly the memo doesn t shed a whole lot of light on what happened. the circumstances around flynn and his dismissal remain one of the murkieriest episodes in this white house tenure, there was a briefing between the white house counsel and sean spicer before sean spicer went to the podium and made a number of misstatements, some greater in scope than others. the thing the white house counsel is most concernedant, he overstated a degree to the investigation and the counsel s office says there was nothing