arabia and russia's nuclear power agency. let's discuss now, john q. barrett is here, who was associate counsel for the iran-contra investigation. matthew whittaker. and cnn contributor, john dean. former nixon white house counsel and author of ""conservatives without conscience." i love having you on together or individually. john barrett, i'm going to start with you. your reaction to this. flynn may have misled officials on his security clearance form about two middle east trips during the presidential campaign. one of hitch involved russia and that $100 billion nuclear deal i talked about earlier. i just mentioned. what do you think? >> well, forms are hard to fill out. it's laborious. but they're very high stakes and they're very important. and security clearance personnel position clearance form is something that someone like general flynn knows to take seriously. it's a problem. >> okay. so here's the thing.