text: Mueller clears way for Michael Flynn sentencing | TribLIVE.com
  Former President Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, right, arrives at federal courthouse July 10, 2018 in Washington, for status hearing.
  According to his plea, Flynn admitted to discussing U.S. sanctions with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States, on Trump's behalf during the presidential transition and said members of the president's inner circle were well aware of, and at times directing, his efforts. Flynn had pushed Kislyak not to respond to sanctions imposed on Russia by the Obama administration in response to interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.