john mccormick, senior writer at the weekly standard. david, is this whole flynn controversy, i'm going to name it that, obviously broader than that i that, is this going to dog the whole obama -- i mean, the whole trump administration? >> well, given the first 25 days, there will probably be a new controversy that pops up by friday. i mean, look, but i do think we still don't know exactly why flynn was released or asked to resign. i mean, there are still sort of discrepancies on the reporting on that. but i think the bigger question president trump hasn't answered this yet, if there was an erosion of trust, he knew michael flynn lied to the vice president weenks ago, why did h not ask for his resignation weeks ago? president trump hasn't answered that. that's a question he's going to have to answer eventually. >> i think what you're hearing democrats and some republicans start to tiptoe around very carefully is asking was there some sort of a quid pro quo