or congress? that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. the defendant even provided a voice mail recording of one such communication. in some of these instances the special counsel was unaware of the outreach until be alerted to it by the defendant. so before and after mike flynn pled guilty people connected to the trump administration and also people connected to congress, who's that? they were reaching out to mike flynn to talk to him about what exactly he planned to tell prosecutors and whether he planned to cooperate with them and how much and on what topics. we know that one of those instances of outreach from persons connected to the trump administration was referenced as the voice mail here, which we think is probably the same reference from mueller's report about a lawyer for the president, quote, the president's personal counsel leaving mike flynn a voice mail.