perhaps a series of phone calls between michael flynn and russia's ambassador to the united states. on the same day that the obama administration announced tough new sanctions against russia including the expulsion of 35 russian diplomats. a phone call did happen, but they dispute the timing saying he spoke to him, but on date before sanctions were announced. and that the topic itself did not come up. we are joined now, david, let me start with that trump claim, contra addiction, what say you? >> i take the trump team at their word that it was the 28th of december not as i wrote the 29th. the 28th is the day in which many nudes organizations said that these sanctions were