answered but it wasn t central to the russia thing. i always assumed what trump was afraid of he had something to flynn and fnn could be flipped on that, and flynn would testify ainst the president that he had some conversation with flynn in terms of dealing with the russians affirmatively. and if that s not the case, where s the there there. if it isn t manafort because he wants to throw him under the bus where is the concern that trump has that has put him on defense for these months. kelly o donnell over at the white house, the president shortly before noon, before that, he was reportedly sitting and watching the coverage. well, we don t have a straight answer on that, brian, we had what we call a gaggle which is a journalism form of art for an off-camera briefing with sarah huckabee sanders while sean spicer traveled with the president to the speech.