moderator of "washington week" on pbs. sam stein back with us, politi s editor for the daily beast. good evening, welcome to you all. because it's most recent, mimi, i'd like to begin with you on this flynn filing by his lawyers. they write a little section in there that when the fbi was going over to the white house to talk to flynn, in their telling, flynn may not have been -- may not have had the warning repeated to him that a lot of folks go around knowing, that it's a crime to lie to the feds. >> right. so it's interesting, actually, what they actually say in the memo is that he wasn't warned about the penalties of lying to the fbi. so it's not entirely clear to me whether they're saying they didn't tell him it was a crime, or they didn't tell him how much trouble he could be in, but that argument really doesn't go very far. i mean, this is, you know, the former director of national intelligence, i mean, he's a military man. as you say, most people on the street would know it's a crime