News outlets including The Washington Post and New York Times confirmed last week that Michael Flynn talked about the sanctions with the ambassador. | AP Photo Spicer and Conway send split signals on Flynn's future Conway maintained that all is well with Trump and Flynn; Spicer said the president is 'evaluating' the situation.

Senior advisers to President Donald Trump sent conflicting signals on Monday about the fate of his embattled national security adviser, Michael Flynn, as the White House sought to respond to criticism that he was unfit for the job.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at the White House said that the president was "evaluating the situation," after reports that he lied about improperly discussing sanctions on Russia issued by the outgoing Obama administration with the country’s ambassador prior to Trump’s inauguration.


Spicer also said it was his understanding that Flynn had apologized to Vice President Mike Pence, who went on television and said, based on a conversation with Flynn, that sanctions weren't mentioned on the calls.

Spicer's comments came just hours after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said that Flynn enjoyed the “full confidence of the president” despite recent scrutiny into his contact with the Russian ambassador to Washington before the inauguration.

“General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president,” Conway told MSNBC.

News outlets including The Washington Post and New York Times, though, confirmed last week that Flynn did, in fact, talk about the sanctions with the ambassador. Stephen Miller, a White House policy adviser, pointedly declined to defend Flynn when representing the administration on Sunday television programs.

Conway, however, maintained on MSNBC that all is well with Trump and Flynn. She cited Flynn’s earlier statement that he could not recall whether sanctions came up in his contact with the Kremlin.

She declined to say whether Flynn has discussed the call and subsequent controversy with Trump, though she did confirm that he spoke with Pence twice on Friday.

