holiday season? white house officials are talking about things like many of these employees will receive their paychecks before the holid holiday. the effects of this would be minimal. obviously the president's also scheduled to be going down to florida for the holiday season himself. what would he do down there? all of those conversations are still going on. it doesn't seem clear yet that the white house has a final strategy for these critical moments. >> let's switch gears. i want to talk to you about michael flynn. we saw those charges filed against his associated yesterday. what does that tell us about what we can expect at today's sentencing for michael flynn? the special counsel has recommended he not receive any jail time for his substantial cooperation. >> michael flynn is almost certain to walk out of court today as a freeman, obviously with a criticism record. more broadly it sort of points out the effect of the special