Neither side will comment on whether President Trump discussed the Justice Department’s profound concerns about his national security adviser during a private dinner in January with FBI Director James Comey at the White House.
But according to the statements of White House and Justice Department officials, Trump would have been aware of Mike Flynn’s FBI troubles when he sat down for dinner with Comey.
The dinner happened on Jan. 27, one day after acting Attorney General Sally Yates came to the White House to brief White House counsel Donald McGahn on Justice Department concerns that Flynn was compromised because he had lied about his contacts with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
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In February, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that upon hearing from Yates on the 26th, McGahn “immediately” briefed the president and a small group of senior advisors.
Three days before Trump’s dinner with Comey, on January 24, FBI agents came to the White House to interview Flynn about his discussions with Ambassador Kislyak.
That means Trump would have known about the FBI and Justice Department concerns about Flynn — one of his closest advisers — when he sat down to dinner with Comey.
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Whether Trump asked Comey about Flynn is something people close to Comey won’t discuss. But one Comey friend told NBC News he is eager to tell his side of the story about the dinner and other matters, preferably at a Congressional hearing.
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Trump invited Comey to dinner within 24 hours of learning Flynn under FBI investigation, @KenDilanianNBC reports https://t.co/WH29XuQ65v
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) May 15, 2017
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