it is not clear that flynn ever read it. joining me now, craig miller, a national security correspondent with "the washington post," who helped break this story, and michael isikoff. greg, let me start with you. what really strug me about this was we know about the calls on sanction day. but apparently he was having lots of contact with the russian ambassador right after the election? >> yeah, in fact kislyak had previously told us that he had been in contact with flynn extensively before the election, and flynn has since acknowledged that he knew kislyak for several years. kislyak was involved in setting up a trip that flynn made to moscow when he was still head of dia. >> and this is the trump transition officials saying that they got worried about how much flynn was talking to kislyak? >> yeah. i think that the most interesting thing here to me and the most significant thing is that even within the trump transition or trump team, you had these sort of experienced