As a results of these information stories, public pressure on Flynn increased. Based on the outcomes of the FBI interview, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates made an "urgent" request to meet with White House counsel Don McGahn, and so they met on January 26 and January 27. Flynn initially declined to reply to a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment proper towards self-incrimination, however he and the committee later struck a compromise.