the first time mike pence has heard of it. it's impossible. mike pence was the head of the transition. while all of those news stories about mike flynn being on the turkish government's payroll were breaking, he was the head of the transition. when mike flynn was being vetted for the national security advisor job. he was the head of the transition when congress formally notified the head of the transition that mike flynn appears to be on a foreign government's payroll. he was the head of the transition when mike flynn's personal lawyers came and told the head of the transition that mike flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent. and now mike pence's explanation for this whole story inexplicably is he's never heard any of this. >> well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. >> that cannot be true. that cannot be true. that cannot be true. the mike flynn scandal in this white house, the inexplicable hiring of flynn, the secret foreign ties of flynn, the