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FILE PHOTO: Then White House National Security Advisor Flynn walks down the White House colonnade at the White House in Washington
- Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, entered a federal courthouse for his plea hearing on Friday morning.
- Flynn has been charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.
Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, arrived in a federal court in Washington, DC on Friday morning for a scheduled plea hearing in which he is expected to plead guilty to charges filed against him by special counsel Robert Mueller in the ongoing Russia investigation.
The plea hearing began at 10:30 a.m. Flynn has been charged with making false statements to federal investigators about his conversations in December with Russia's ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn arrived to crowds of reporters, but did not address any of them as he made his way into the courthouse. Take a look at a video of his hectic entrance:
Michael Flynn is in the building. pic.twitter.com/xObzcAdFcy
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