reviewing the situation when it came to michael flynn, and then later on there was a story in the post that the justice department informed the white house a month ago that there was this conversation that occurred that dealt with sanctions and the fact that michael flynn did not tell the vice president this before he went on national television and vouched for the national security advisor that that potentially could be used as blackmail to compromise the national security advisor. the question is, wolf, if the white house was told a month ago about all of this, what did they do with that information? i think one name that's going to come up at this briefing, wolf, if the questions are allowed to be asked by folks in this front row and the front couple of rows, were among several reporters in this room are going to ask this question is did the white house chief of staff -- not the chief of staff, but the white house counsellor don mcgan inform the chief of staff reince