The ex-adviser Trump revealed the content of negotiations with the Russian ambassador

Former US Presidential Advisor Michael Flynn, who resigned due to contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, during a telephone conversation on December 29, 2016 spoke about the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, and not about the abolition of sanctions. Flynn told about this in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“The conversation was, in fact, this:“ I know what happened. We will study everything. ” I never said anything in the spirit: “We are going to reconsider the sanctions” or something like that, ”explained ex-adviser to US President Donald Trump.

Flynn emphasized that “did not cross any borders” during a conversation with a sour. He also emphasized that he was concerned about the jail in the media of the details of his telephone conversations, considers this case “unprecedented” and insists that the withdrawal of information outside the classified system is a crime.

At the same time, representatives of the WikiLeaks project said that the record of the telephone conversation Filinn and Kislyak "should be open to the public."

Flynn left his post on February 14. Before this Associated Press and The Washington Post found out that the US Ministry of Justice warned Vice President Mike Pence, that Flynn can be compromised due to contacts with Russia's ambassador.

WP wrote that at the end of December 2016, Flynn held negotiations with Kislyak and advised Russia “not too violently” to respond to the sanctions, which the administration of the ex-president of the United States Barack Obama was going to introduce. Reuters clarified that this conversation took place before the White House on December 29 expanded the sanctions due to the alleged intervention of Russia in the election of the US president.

Flynn himself first rejected the information about the discussion of anti -Russian sanctions, but after that he said that he could not definitely say that this topic was never risen in conversations. The New York Times reported that in the early days of the Trump administration, the FBI interrogated Flynn in connection with his contacts with the Russian diplomat.