for the president-elect, michael flynn, spoke to the russians. you all say he spoke to the russians about the sanctions that were in place. then afterwards he lied about it rememb , he said he didn't, the vice president said he didn't. explain what happened. >> we understand there were multiple conversations. what's crucial, is a crucial conversation a few days after christmas, the day before the obama administration imposed sanctions for the hacking. those sanctions were an open secret at that point. flynn's message, we're told, in that phone call is don't overreact, whatever is done can be you be done, the obama administration is your adversary and not the united states and we will be in office soon. we're told they didn't get into specifics, didn't promise specific sanctions relieved, but that message was there, seeming to reassure the russian ambassador at that point that the trump administration wanted different, probably better relations. you know, there's law against