The Kremlin denies that national security adviser Michael Flynn talked about Russian sanctions with the country's ambassador to the U.S., Reuters reports. | Getty Report: Kremlin denies Flynn and ambassador discussed lifting sanctions

The Kremlin is denying that President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, discussed lifting sanctions on Russia with the country’s ambassador to the U.S., Reuters reports .

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, has seen his standing with Trump become tenuous in the wake of reports last week that he discussed the Obama administration’s sanctions against Russia with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, before Trump’s inauguration and misled Vice President Mike Pence about it.


Flynn and Pence had both publicly denied that Flynn’s discussion with Kislyak involved the sanctions, but reporting in The Washington Post, The New York Times and other news outlets indicate that Flynn and the ambassador did, in fact, discuss them, a break with precedent that some experts say might be illegal.

Intelligence officials reportedly have a transcript of some of the conversation. It is unclear whether Flynn and the ambassador talked about the sanctions broadly or if Flynn said anything specific about ending them.

