he got it. >> members of congress still have questions about flynn's actions, but congressional republicans, many of them at least pushing back against democrats and they're call for a special committee to investigate the issue. joining us now to talk more about all of this, michael steele, former republican national committee chair and msnbc political analyst and david corn, msnbc political analyst. michael steele, i'll go to you first. i'm curious one of the charges, one of the suggestions that's out there is that this phone call michael flynn had -- excuse me that michael flynn had at t end of december when it appears some way the issue was raised, we don't know exactly, but the suspicion is out there, certainly, that trump, the incoming president, wanted him, ordered him to have this phone conversation. it was done with his knowledge. what do you think of that? >> well, i mean, i think that's what sort of eggs this story on. i mean, we don't know all of the surrounding facts that sort of led up to that phone call.