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And move ahead with the investigation just like chairman nunes said he's going to. >> and jeremy dimon getting a statement from deputy press secretary sarah sanders about the question of sally yates testifying and that hearing being canceled, as we were discussing. let me just read it, because the white house should have their say in this. this is a statement -- "the "washington post" story's entirely false. the white house has taken no action to prevent sally yates from testifying, and the department of justice specifically told her that it would not stop her and to suggest otherwise is compl...

It says it did not stand in the way of sally yates testifying. have you seen any evidence that the white house got involved? >> well, it depends on whether you call the department of justice part of the white house. i believe the department of justice was trying to silence her. >> well, but -- >> they wrote -- they wrote a left saying that you need to check with the white house essentially to see if the white house is going to invoke executive privilege. the white house didn't do that, so as far as i can tell by reading the letters, i'm not sure that anyone tried to actively stop it. >> well, ...

The action was if you don't act we'll assume the following. great. i don't think you can read that any other way. she's i'm sure -- he is a very talented lawyer and wrote it specifically for it. we read it that way and chose not to act because we have no problem with her testifying. plain and simple. >> so executive privilege is not an issue for sally yates testifying. >> that's correct. >> one issue. you want to add? >> no. it's interesting, this is very clearly worded. and yet somehow you're asking me how to interpret that in any other way than literally reading plain english. >> okay. inter...

The big question, why did it take the president weeks to act on flynn. we have it all covered. jessica schneider. >> reporter: chris, that is the question. why did it take 18 days for michael flynn to resign? former acting attorney general sally yates tried to lay it all out for lawmakers disclosing she warned the white house three times about michael flynn's misstatements and filled in the chain of events that led to general palestinian's ouster as national security adviser. >> we felt it was critical we get this information to the white house. we believed general flynn was compromised with...