president trump said he was unaware of reports on flynn. three days after that on february 13thth "the washington post" published a story that flynn had lied to vice president mike pence about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn resign that had night. the next day on february 14thth white house spokesman sean spicer described the yates meeting in january in far less serious terms. >> so just to be clear, the acting attorney general informed the white house counsel that they wanted to give, quote, a heads up to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what the -- he had sent the vice president out in particular. the president was informed immediately and the president asked to conduct a review if there was a legal situation there. it was immediately determined that will there wasn't. >> yates' testimony on may 8 will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about that white house meet pentagon. a source familiar with the situation says yates will be