they've had their own hides to watch for a while. >> right. >> but even more so, the -- the burning desire and desperation really to get things like tax reform done, which they're going to do in the next stage in the senate tonight, is even more critical according to -- i talked to one republican senator tonight, because they even more so have to prove that they can get things done. even more so have to have a legislative accomplishment, given the political firestorm going on the russia side of this. >> jim, flynn's guilty plea is the first charge against a person inside the trump administration, and now cnn is learning that jared kushner was "very senior transition member, the one who directed flynn to contact the russian ambassador." what do we know about that? >> listen, the white house has tried to portray flynn, in these conversations with the russian ambassador during the transition, first they tried to portray them as innocent conversations, you had sean