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Actually, I think Dan Bongino (whose podcasts made me see the terrible things our country has done to a man who served it honorably) had the best take on this, and it is what I have come to believe...that Pence did not lie. Not at all. I believe that the PNG (Persona Non Grata) ejections and Sanctions are two completely separate things, and I am not alone in this. Many parts of the media saw it that way as well, as Bongino pointed out with articles from various sources who seemed to well understand the distinction. Which makes this all the more heinous. If the 302 interviews can be trusted at all, Flynn had zero foreknowledge of the PNG actions which apparently Kislyak informed him of, and he was surprised by the fact that 35 had been ejected. In reading the 302, the questioning of the FBI sounds TORTUROUSLY contextual. I read it a bunch of times, and it sounds either they questioned deliberately to trap him, or wrote it up in the 302 in such a way to produce the effect of a lie. Sally Yates helpfully told White House Counsel McGahn that Flynn "may have lied" followed up by a Washington Post article the DAY BEFORE McCabe was to meet with Pence (the article no doubt "leaked" deliberately to stoke the appearance of disorganization in the new administration and a DNI who lied to his direct superior, all done to produce the effect in Pence of “This is totally opposite, it’s not what he said to me.” Obama and his comrades must have been rubbing their hands in glee and satisfaction that it was playing out the way they wanted it to.  