on the other side of the wall. that is, what's the evidence and the nature of his cooperation. >> when you were invited to dinner by the president on july 27th, that afternoon -- >> january 27th. >> excuse me. thank you for correcting me on that. the day before then deputy attorney general sally yates had briefed the white house that mike flynn had lied to the fbi. when you got that call to have dinner with the president, did you know going -- did you think going in he was going to ask you about flynn? >> no. i worried it might come up. if you see my memo, i made clear to note it did not come up at all. >> it does come up in february. he says, can you lay off mike flynn. why didn't you tell him that was inappropriate? >> that's a great question.