Flynn ouster leaves trump security team in turmoil
By Bloomberg
15 February 2017 |
3:59 am
President Donald Trump asked his national security adviser to resign after White House lawyers reviewed a warning from the Justice Department that Michael Flynn had misled officials about his conversations with a Russian envoy.
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