Conway says situation with Flynn was 'unsustainable'

Top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway says Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser because he misled Vice President Mike Pence, telling NBC’s “Today” show that “the situation became unsustainable.”

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway take their seats before the start of a joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Late last month, the Justice Department warned the White House that Flynn could be in a compromised position because of contradictions between the public depictions of US phone calls with foreign officials and what intelligence officials knew to be true based on recordings of the conversations.

Conway says it is true Trump was “loyal” to Flynn, but adds that, “Misleading the vice president really was the key here.”

— AP