book. and she was obviously talking about this. >> you're having this interaction with reince priebus at that time, the white house had been warned that mike flynn was perceived to potentially be compromised by a foreign power. the fbi interview happened, the warning from the acting attorney general happened. and at that time, mike flynn was still in the white house. was he asking if mike flynn skurndly under surveillance or under a serious form of investigation? do you know what he's getting at by asking that? >> not for sure. i think he was asking, is there current electronic surveillance under the foreign electronic surveillance act of the national security adviser. >> and you did give him an answer? >> correct. >> pete, that makes the point how inappropriate that was. >> well, of course, tantalizingly, he doesn't say what the answer was. and where he told the answer is blacked out in the memo. so he basically says in the interview with rachel that he wanted to use it as, in her