president said i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he plead guilty to those lies. it is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. how damaging, michael, will these past comments be? well, i think that what will be the most damaging is if the president repeats under oath stories that mueller does not believe to be true. so all of these tweets now may be fodder for the interview but really it is the under oath interview that matters most in terms of president trump s legal jeopardy. what we have now, don, is a series of acts. the firing of comey, the hostile workforce with mccabe, the stand down, communications with comey vis-a-vis flynn, the loyalty, all those things are little pieces that mueller has to look at in terms of an obstruction of justice mosaic.