they're waiting to see because they don't know yet the terms of this plea agreement. they have to wait for that to be entered but the president's legal team both inside and outside the white house is working the phones right now to try to get a better handle on all of this. they were clearly caught to some degree by surprise by today's developments. though it should be said after manafort was indicted, they expected that something was going to come down on flynn and then you had the withdrawal of the information sharing agreement which really tell graphed to the president's attorneys that something was about to happen. so not a surprise. i think to the white house and the president's outside attorneys that something like this happened, what does remain, though, unclear is what the terms of this plea agreement are. those will become very clear in the minutes ahead. >> sandra: with all this happening during the transition period for michael flynn, john, could you sort of take us back? flynn was a very early vocal