Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170509:05:03:00
On what general flynn had told him. we knew that that just flat wasn't true. >> reporter: and she said her biggest concern was that the russians would use that as leverage over flynn. >> not only did we believe the russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. >> reporter: yates said she first alerted white house counsel don megan to her concerns in late january. two days after the fbi interviewed flynn and a full 18 days before fl...