The Senate Intelligence Committee will not offer President Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn immunity to testify in front of lawmakers.
NBC News reported Friday that a senior congressional source said immunity for Flynn is “not on the table,” and that the committee denied his request. Flynn wanted immunity to testify in front of the committee about the role of the Russian government and its possible interference in the presidential election.
Flynn has made similar requests to the FBI and to the House Intelligence Committee, but the status of those requests is unknown.
Flynn resigned from the administration earlier this year after just a month in office. The White House said he was forced out because he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn had previously been paid to speak in Russia and was a frequent guest on Russia Today, a Kremlin-sponsored English news network. He also campaigned with Trump during the election while working as a lobbyist for the Turkish government.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the committee, declined comment on the report Friday morning. A request for comment to committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr’s office was not immeidately returned.
