Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said there “there was nothing improper” about the calls between then president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and the Russian ambassador in December 2016 and January 2017.
Grassley was responding to the release of newly declassified transcripts of several phone conversations between Flynn and then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The transcripts show that Flynn asked Kislyak to keep the Russian response to sanctions by the outgoing Obama administration “reciprocal” so that the two nations could cooperate to address the mutual threat of radical Islamic terrorism.
