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Brown. national security advisor michael flynn and the u.s. ambassador did speak about sanctions in at least one phone call. jake tapper reports the details. >> reporter: a bombshell out of washington today. nine current and former government officials told "the washington post" that national security advisor michael flynn discussed u.s. sanctions with russia with russias ambassador before taking office. both flirn and the white house insisting that's not the case. sources tell cnn these meetings occurred in september, just when obama was announcing retaliatory sanctions kbrens russia for inte...

The russian ambassador. don't overreact to these sanctions. we'll have time to revisit this later. >> the private conversations between flynn and russia's was explicit contradictions to president obama's actions. >> what i can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the united states took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. >> that forceful denial turns out to be false. did the vice president know he was repeating a falsehood or did general flynn lie to pence? vice president pence's o...

But in this case, we have a guy who is going to be the most senior intelligence official in the country, de facto, at least, go to the russians before the election -- or before the inauguration -- and say we're going to lift these sanctions, don't worry about it, don't overreact, help me help you. >> right. right. >> and the fact of the matter is, that is something that is a very bright line, i think. and i think you're going to see the leaks continue because the intelligence community is quite obviously the number of sources in both the "times" and the "post" stories today were astounding. an...

Like ted kennedy goes over to russia and talks smack or jimmy carter goes to some third world nation and criticizes the u.s. and makes all of these statements. but in this case, we have a guy who is going to be the most senior intelligence official in the country, de facto, at least, go to the russians before the election -- or before the inauguration -- and say we're going to lift these sanctions, don't worry about it, don't overreact, help me help you. >> right. right. >> and the fact of the matter is, that is something that is a very bright line, i think. ani think you're going to see the l...

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 y...