u.s./russia relations, even sanctions specifically. it would be a little awkward. questions would be raised, but it wouldn't be that weird. nevertheless, he lied about it publicly and he lied about it to the fbi, and that honestly makes no sense if they were innocent policy discussions about sanctions and he is the incoming adviser who is going to be working on that stuff. you wouldn't need to keep that stuff secret. you wouldn't even need to try to keep it secret, unless perhaps those sanctions discussions were maybe linked to something that really truly couldn't get out and had to be kept secret. and it certainly couldn't be disclosed to the fbi. the reason i raise that possibility and the reason i think this is important on -- as we head into the sentencing portion of mike flynn's life is that it wasn't just mike flynn who lied about those sanctions discussions. it's troubling and interesting and intriguing enough that flynn was lying about those discussions with russia, but it