immediately is does the president today regret not taking president obama s advice about mike fwlin? if he had taken the advice and not made michael flynn his national security adviser, we would be talking about something else today. that also harkins back to the president s decision to fire james comey from the fbi. there s widespread believe had the president not fired james comey, there would not be a special council investigation into his campaign s dealings with russia. shannon, all these reports out there tonight including our own about how this was a thunder clap, this was a surprise in that west wing, devils advocate side of that question, how could it have been? a lot of news organizations have been preparing their mike flynn packages of coverage in anticipation. absolutely. everyone knew not everyone. a lot of people close to the president certainly knew flynn