https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/trump-know-flynns-talks-russia-know/
"Looking back at one of Trump’s own tweets, which he posted on Dec. 30 — the day after Flynn secretly urged Russia not to respond to the Obama Administration’s new sanctions — makes it hard not to wonder if he knew about his aide’s effort to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to delay. Putin’s decision to not respond to the new sanctions reportedly surprised intelligence officials and led them to look more closely at their surveillance of the Russian ambassador’s communications, including his intercepted talks with Flynn. But Trump’s tweet suggests that it might not have surprised him. Another new revelation — that Trump’s White House was warned late last month by Sally Yates, then the acting attorney general, that Flynn had lied about the content of his talks with the Russian ambassador –seems to suggest that Trump was feigning surprise on Friday when he was asked about reports that his aide had talked about sanctions. In an appearance on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Kellyanne Conway made it clear that the White House does not want to answer questions about when Trump knew that Flynn has discussed sanctions with the Russians."
