Mike Flynn defends talks with Russia: 'It wasn't about sanctions'

Mike Flynn, President Trump’s ousted national security adviser, said hours before his resignation on Monday that he discussed a review of the Obama administration’s eleventh-hour rejection of dozens of Russian diplomats with the Russian ambassador in December, but said he did not discuss sanctions relief during the now-infamous phone call.

“It wasn’t about sanctions. It was about the 35 guys who were thrown out,” Flynn said in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, his last before stepping down. “So that’s what it turned out to be. It was basically, ‘Look, I know this happened. We’ll review everything.’ I never said anything such as, ‘We’re going to review sanctions,’ or anything like that.”