The resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn has shone a light on the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, who late last month carried concerns from the justice department to the president about Flynn’s links to Russia.

“The White House counsel informed the president immediately” of a 26 January conversation with the then acting attorney general, Sally Yates, in which Yates “flagged” intelligence reports on Flynn’s communications with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, the White House spokesman said Tuesday.

Donald Trump denied knowledge of the report on Friday 10th February. “I don’t know about that,” Trump told reporters. “I haven’t seen it.”

“The president was immediately informed of the information” passed by the justice department to McGahn, Spicer said. “His view was that this was not a violation. He was instinctively correct.”

Yates reportedly had warned McGahn that Flynn may have violated the Logan Act, which bars private US citizens from dealing with foreign countries that are in diplomatic disputes with the United States. At the time of the calls, Flynn was still a private citizen.

But McGahn’s knowledge of the content of Flynn’s conversations two weeks before the White House expelled him complicates Flynn’s version of events.

"Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive"

Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign

The daily Gallup tracking poll announced Monday that just 40% of Americans approve of President Trump's job as president so far, compared to 55% who say they disapprove.
Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton all enjoyed approval ratings in the high 50s in Gallup tracking polls during the early months of their administrations.

Less than the percentage of Americans who voted for him, though. Looks like his support is sliding, even among the Trumpeteers.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 4 hours ago
Thank you to Eli Lake of The Bloomberg View - "The NSA & FBI...should not interfere in our politics...and is" Very serious situation for USA

White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway told NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday: "Misleading the vice president really was the key here."

That sounds about as credible as when the president told CIA employees that the media had invented the story about his enmity toward the spy agency, not even two weeks after he had taken to Twitter to compare the CIA to Nazis.
It's about as credible as President Donald Trump's insistence that it didn't rain during his inauguration.
Or that millions of people had voted illegally in the election he just won.

The point here is that for a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it's strange that Flynn's "lie" to Pence would get him fired.
It doesn't add up.

All of Trump's tweets this morning + what they mean
Trump has a new opponent: A gusher of leaks from anonymous sources hinting at nefarious collusion with Russia and painting a picture of a White House in crisis.

Trump is questioning the motivations of the leakers and accusing the "fake news media" of "going crazy." But he's not refuting the accuracy of the reporting by CNN, The New York Times or The Washington Post.

With his own gusher of tweets, Trump is trying to reframe the story.