you already have michael flynn making their case, his team making their case about this. the president, we'll have to see. you saw him tweet about flynn, saying he believes he is stronger than some of the others, that he's not weak. clearly the president has been supportive of his former national security adviser through this. so we'll have to wait and see how the white house responds. >> we know you'll continue to read through it. thank you, pamela. what else are you guys seeing? >> one of the other interesting notes is that in a phone call from january 24th of 2017 when the fbi initial lily reaches ouo lieutenant flynn, they say they want to talk to him and they ask him questions about his conversations with the russians. he said they say that he explained that he had been trying to build relationships with the russians, that he had calls in which he exchanged