top of the hour, there is new reporting on multiple fronts this morning, all pointing to a special counsel drawing ever closer to the white house. an nbc news exclusive has new details of the stunning fall of michael flynn. we learned that jeff sessions spent hours last week answering questions in the russia investigation. and the washington post details an encounter in the oval office where president trump probed the acting fbi director about his political leanings. welcome back to "morning joe," it is wednesday, january 24th. we us, we have clint watts and michael schmidt and ari melber