resistance. >> all this as sources tell cnn that former acting general attorney sally yates will testify next week that she forcefully warned the trump white house in january that then national security advisor michael flynn lied about discussing sanctions with a russian ambassador, directly contradicting the white house's version of events. >> they wanted to give, quote, a head's up to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he had sent the vice president out in particular. >> yates' testimony likely to raise further questions about why it took the administration nearly three weeks to fire flynn, a decision that was ultimately made on the same day the story was reported in the washington post. >> not to be ignored, that other russia headline this morning, the phone call between president trump and russian president s d vladimir putin. they talked about syria as well