{"id":90275,"date":"2017-12-01T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=90275"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:48:42","slug":"so-whats-wrong-with-making-contacts-with-the-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=90275","title":{"rendered":"So what&#8217;s wrong with making contacts with the Russians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>ABC News: Flynn Prepared to Testify Trump Directed Him to Contact Russians<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_90276\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GetFile-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90276\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GetFile-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GetFile-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GetFile-3-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Reuters)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with Russians when he was a presidential candidate, ABC News reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters has not verified the ABC News report, which cited a Flynn confidant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 Thomson\/Reuters. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/flynn-russia-mueller\/2017\/12\/01\/id\/829317\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/flynn-russia-mueller\/2017\/12\/01\/id\/829317\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: Flynn Prepared to Testify Trump Directed Him to Contact Russians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}