when he appointed him to be national security adviser? >> correct. you wouldn't know that until he filed. nobody would have known that because he didn't file until two days ago. >> he filed a lobbying disclosure in november. >> that's different than filing a foreign request. >> it's one question friday. >> it's very much -- the other question is did flynn disclose he was acting as a foreign agent, in a security review before he came to the nsa? >> that's something i don't know. you'll have to follow up with general flynn on. >> bring in richard painter and cnn commentator, matt lewis. good evening to both of you. i'm going to ask you, mr. painter, the white house is saying that the president didn't know flynn was being paid to represent turkey during the campaign. and you heard what sean spicer said. what do you make of this? >> this is complete chaos.