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Acting attorney general sally yates is prepared to testify before the senate judiciary committee next week. but she gave a forceful warning to the white house regarding then national security adviser michael flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired. this contradicting the administration's version of events. in a private meeting january 26th yates told white house counsel that flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed u.s. sanctions on russia. in conversations with russia's ambassador to the u.s. sear guy kislyak. his misleading comments yates explained made...

Flynn had lied to vice president mike pence about his conversations with the russian ambassador. flynn resigned that night. yates testimony on may 8th will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about that white house meeting. source familiar with the situation said yates will be limited on what she can tell the committee because many details involving flynn remain classified. yates previously scheduled appearance in front of the house intelligence committee you may remember was cancelled by chairman nunez. that move sparking outcry from democrats who believed...

Quote, a story to tell -- that is mr. flynn -- if he didn't have a story to tell. so i really do believe -- and, chris, i practiced many years. a lawyer doesn't throw out an invitation to give his client immunity if there's not something there. >> well said. let's look at this. the associated press is now reporting that former acting attorney general sally yates will testify on may 8th, that's pretty soon, that she, quote, alerted white house counsel don mcbegan about discrepancies between the administration's statements on flynn's contact with the russian ambassador and what really transpired...

Republican leaders in the trump campaign, so i hope that we will hear that the fbi investigation is moving forward, that there aren't roadblocks to them getting to the bottom of this. this is one of the most significant events in american democratic history and i think we need to get to the bottom what have happened, not just in the interest of our last election but our next election so that we better understand how to defend american democracy against future interference by russia or other countries that wish us ill. >> in addition to the wednesday hearing a week from today, may 8th, the form...

Is aware of it and it is now part of the their investigation. and now there's other investigations on the hill where they're moving forward. and the other thing is interesting if he is granted immunity. >> well the inspector general's investigation we just learned about this week, the speaking he got from the russian media mouthpieces. thank you so much. may 8th is when we're hear from the former acting attorney general yates, as well as thor director of national security. from washington to new york to all across the country we're watching this protest and people gathering for trump's 100th d...