--- title: Russia Investigation: House Will Subpoena Cohen and Flynn description: The House Intelligence Committee has approved subpoenas for two Trump associates and their respective businesses as part of the Russia probe canonical: https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-31T21:43:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:04:57.118Z article:section: Politics og:title: House Intelligence Committee Subpoenas Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn og:description: For "several individuals for testimony, personal documents and business records" og:url: https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac3a47312cc9fdf8/6988cddf0b72e3f0636edd97/michael-flynn1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5384 og:image:height: 3029 og:image:alt: 170518_Michael Flynn og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: House Intelligence Committee Subpoenas Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn twitter:description: For "several individuals for testimony, personal documents and business records" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac3a47312cc9fdf8/6988cddf0b72e3f0636edd97/michael-flynn1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # House Intelligence Committee Issues Subpoenas for Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn > Sponsored content. 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Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, speaking publicly for the first time about concerns she brought to the Trump White House on Russia, told Congress on Monday she warned that Michael Flynn "essentially could be blackmailed" by Russia_  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson May 31, 2017 9:43 PM UTC Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, speaking publicly for the first time about concerns she brought to the Trump White House on Russia, told Congress on Monday she warned that Michael Flynn "essentially could be blackmailed" by Russia  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson May 31, 2017 9:43 PM UTC The House Intelligence Committee has approved subpoenas for two associates of President Donald Trump along with their respective businesses as part of the ongoing investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election. The ranking committee members, Reps. Mike Conway and Adam Schiff, said they will subpoena Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The subpoenas are for “several individuals for testimony, personal documents and business records,” Schiff and Conway said in their statement. “We and expect that anyone called to testify or provide documents will comply with that request, so that we may gain all the information within the scope of our investigation. We will continue to pursue this investigation wherever the facts may lead,” they said in a joint statement. ABC News first reported Tuesday that the Senate and House [intelligence committees ](http://time.com/4791661/michael-flynn-senate-intelligence-committee-business-subpoena/)had issued invitations for Cohen to appear and to provide documents, but that it was not a subpoena. He told TIME he declined the request because the questions were too broad, but that he would testify if he were given a subpoena because he has nothing to hide. Asked on Wednesday if he would still testify, Cohen said in a brief phone call that he would. “The answer is yes, okay?” he told TIME. The Senate Intelligence Committee had already subpoenaed Flynn for, among other things, his communication between himself and Russian officials. He initially declined to comply but will now [reportedly hand over](https://time.com/4798768/michael-flynn-senate-intelligence-subpoena-russia/) some documents. Flynn’s lawyer did not respond to request for comment. ## Transcript I had two in person meetings and one phone call with the White House Counsel about Mr. Flynn. We told them that we were giving them all of this information so they could take action, the action that they deemed appropriate. I remember the Mr. McGahn asked me whether or not General Flynn should be fired, And I told him that that really wasn't our call, that was up to them, but that we were giving them this information so that they could take action. We were concerned that the American people had been misled about the underlying conduct and what General Flynn had done, and additionally, that we weren't the only ones that knew all of this. That the Russians also knew about what General Flynn had done. And the Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others, because in the media accounts, it was clear from the vice president and others that they were repeating what General Flynn had told them, and that this was a problem, Because not only did we believe that the Russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information. And that created a compromise situation. A situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians. Every time this lie was repeated And the misrepresentations were getting more and more specific as they were coming out, every time that happened, it increased the compromise and to state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/"},"headline":"House Intelligence Committee Issues Subpoenas for Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn","datePublished":"2017-05-31T21:43:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:04:57.118Z","description":"The subpoenas are for \"several individuals for testimony, personal documents and business records\"","url":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/","keywords":["Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac3a47312cc9fdf8/6988cddf0b72e3f0636edd97/michael-flynn1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac3a47312cc9fdf8/6988cddf0b72e3f0636edd97/michael-flynn1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170518_Michael Flynn","caption":"President Donald Trump","creditText":"Jabin Botsford — The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/","name":"House Intelligence Committee Issues Subpoenas for Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Sally Yates Told the White House Michael Flynn 'Could Be Blackmailed' by Russia","description":"Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, speaking publicly for the first time about concerns she brought to the Trump White House on Russia, told Congress on Monday she warned that Michael Flynn \"essentially could be blackmailed\" by Russia","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/t1CmGtRt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-05-08T21:34:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/t1CmGtRt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/","duration":"PT1M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4800383/michael-flynn-michael-cohen-russia-investigation-subpoena/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```