but there was a real break here, and they were no longer going to be working together. there is a kind of unexplained loyalty or interest the president has in flynn s case going back to obviously talking to comey, right? taking extraordinary step to appear to intervene in an ongoing investigation. so flynn was fired on february 13th. and the following day is when comey s in the oval office and trump asks him to end the investigation. so this was clearly something on the president s mind and clearly something that concerned him. you know, it s sort of hard to believe why would the president go to such great lengths to interfere in an investigation. the other thing that is interesting is flynn was interviewed at the white house in the first week of the presidency, and it was that friday that the president had comey over to the white house and asked him to pledge his loyalty to him. so there are these different sort of weird coincidences around flynn and trump s interaction was comey.
interaction was comey. there has been some cooperation whether flynn will cooperate for a long time. the wall street journal reported in march that flynn was actively seeking cooperation. what are we to make of the fact that he essentially put this flag out back then. it appears that it is only now that that may have happened? i m not sure if he was that was his posture back in april. i think this is something more recent. i think one of the largest motivating factors here is the fact that flynn s son was essentially involved in the same things that he was, and that they did everything together. and his son faces the same criminal exposure, and that at this point, flynn s lawyers understand and flynn jr. s lawyers understand the amount of evidence the government has, the type of case that they have, and they understand the severity of it. and i think that s why we re seeing the things moving in place at this point in time. michael schmidt of the knorr new york times, thanks