draw comey in, extract pledges of loyalty, kind of put him under his umbrella and comey recystir resisti resisting. what does that say to you? i think it s because he saw comey as a threat. he knew these investigations were going, we know that now. prior to the inauguration, the trump team knew that flynn was under investigation. there s one versionf the story that says he asked flynn to the next national security advisor. so he was aware of these things. and he probably saw comey as a threat from the outside. and so in typical trump fashion from everything he s done in his life, i m going to try and saddle up to this person and make him under my umbrella, and i think it completely backfired on him. paul, i m going to talk to michael isikoff in a moment who has a pretty amazing story about the president reaching out to flynn. from a legal perspective, what kind of advice would you give to a client who says i want to reach out to him and talk to him. what would you tell him? i d t