a national job but it does raise questions about why the white house didn't get this stuff out and whether the white house lawyers actually knew about these contacts before people like mike flynn. but it also speaks to the fact that the white house has found it absolutely impossible to get out from all of these russia revelations. every day there is a drip, drip, drip of questions and reports and that makes it impossible for the white house and the president to focus on the things that he was sent to washington to do on trade, on jobs, on his quest to dismantle regulations. politically, this is a problem that just will not go away. and these extra revelations about mike flynn, you know, he is not in the administration any more so in some sense not damaging but the constant drip, drip, drip of these revelation makes this a huge problem for the white house. >> errol, do you see anything to steven's point there than the thickening of smoke does this have any real value that could