hope you can let this go. why did he do that? it's also been reported that the president additionally asked the national -- the director of national intelligence dan coats if he too could please intercede with the fbi to somehow make them go easy on mike flynn, not go after mike flynn. why did the president intercede to do that on flynn's behalf, given what we had all just learned about flynn? why did the president initially say that mike flynn was fired because he had lied to mike pence about his contacts with russia, but then later the president changed his story to say he had to fire flynn because actually, flynn lied to the fbi. frankly, why did mike flynn lie at all about his contacts with the russian government about sanctions. all right? he is the incoming national security adviser. it wouldn't be that weird for flynn to be talking to a foreign government about an expected change in policy under the trump administration when it came to