'Flynn spoke out on behalf Trump with Russians

washington - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is Michael Flynn has not asked to speak with the Russian ambassador Sergei Kisljak on the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration against Moscow, but if it had been necessary, he would surely have done.

' He did his job and I was with him. I had given him the assignment as he defended Trump had not done '', his security adviser, from whom he took leave Monday. ' I fired him for what he said to Mike Pence, very simple. ' Flynn had provided, among others, the Vice misleading information about his contact with the Russians. That leaked out.