with respect to general flynn's conduct and how we knew it wasn't true and what our evidence was. >> did don mcc ann tell you what he was going to do with that information? >> no we went through and told him what we knew and why we were concerned about it. the pub was misled we were very concerned about the under lying conduct and went through an explained the compromise significance with the russians and told them we were giving them this information so they could act. >> it's important to know sean spicer has repeatedly characterized as just a head's up. >> the acting attorney general