as you know, flynn recently fired his longtime lawyers instead hired a new lead lawyer, a regular on fox news where she calls robert mueller the real crook and the fbi the real crime family and says that flynn never should have pled guilty and the judge in this case doesn't know what he's doing. because of flynn hiring that lawyer, there's been a lot of speculation that flynn might have hired that new lawyer because he's trying to persuade the president to give him a pardon. this isn't the kind of lawyer you would hire to persuade that judge to give you a light sentence. we've been watching this over the course of this week, watching for signs that any sort of a pardon effort might be coming from flynn. today we got a pretty good sign. the president's first tweet of the day praising flynn for hiring this great new lawyer. a presidential thumbs up for mike flynn. the president has so far not pardoned anybody in connection with the russia scandal but it does feel like those are the train tracks being laid down in the flynn case. so watch this space. stay with us.