and don megan did not serve the president well. sally yates' testimony is accurate.nd then you have coarse trump giving these by twitter and clearly making us all wonder what is he so nervous about. >> i want to put up this twirt. so yates's was acting toerj for ten days now. november 10 obama warns trump about flynn. and then january 30 ag yates directs doj lawyers not to make legal arguments defending trump's executive order on immigration and refugees on travel ban. february 13, report flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail. and february 1 gts, flynn resigns as national security advisor. in those ten days, she warned the white house about lieutenant general flynn, told the department of justice not to enforce the president's immigration order. is there a bigger thorn in the president's side than sally yates right now? >> yeah, probably not at that time and probably not today. one thing i think in addition to it fact she took that action to counter-mind the executive order and those warnings to the administration about general flynn, i think also imine-wise makes her

. >> 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 flynn was fired following a bombshell washington post report that revealed the warning to the white house. >> we told them that they were giving them all of this information so that they could take action. the action that they deemed appropriate. >> reporter: yates' testimony contradicting the white house esertion that she merely gave a heads up. >> the acting attorney general informed white house counsel that they wanted to give, quote, a heads up to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he had sent the vice-president out in particular. >> reporter: yates testifying today she gave the white house the opportunity to look at the classified materials proving flynn was lying in a phone call with the russian ambassador, on the same day she was fired by president trump over her refusal to back the travel ban. >> we would allow them to come over and to review the underlying evidence. >> that was the

it doesn't shock me in the sense that we know that sally yates went to the white house and told don megan the white house that this guy was potentially blackmailable by the russians. and we know from reports that apparently the former president, barack obama, warned donald trump directly against hiring mike flynn. and you know there's a number of other issues that have come up around mike flynn. so i guess as much as this is something of a scoop for you guys, it's not all that shocking to me. >> we should also point out, i interviewed her on monday, sally yates took the unusual step of allowing the white house to review the intelligence, to review the information that she had. she made it available to them. i think it took them eight days from the time she made it available or from the time they requested. but nevertheless, they were able to review that. so whatever the intelligence was, the white house would have gotten a sense of it because they were actually able to go and look at it. >> yeah, that's right. and this points to the larger topic of just the sort of bizarre closeness with