don't want to waste any time getting that relationship up and going. flynn did not ultimately make that happen, but according to james comey's contemporaneous memos, we think that putin probably was the first to call trump after his inauguration and trump was super mad at flynn for not telling him, he's going to be so mad. oh, god, what's going to come out now? guess flynn should have made that day one video conference happen. falling down on the job, mike. there's always been this sort of biographical element in the room when it comes to flynn and his appointment at national security adviser, which is that weird stuff has happened between him and russia. yes, he was working as an emissary when he went over to meet with the gru in 2013 but he did a lot of stuff with the gru that has never happened before. he did sort of oddly collegial things with our most aggressively competitive long-standing international intelligence foe.