comments from the other day through his lawyers that this was kind of trivial. he had been entrapped. and instead, the judge said, hmmm, we re going to watch this for a while and make sure you cooperate, continue to cooperate with the special counsel. why do you think the federal judge was so forceful in rejecting flynn s characterization of his interview back in the white house only a few days after the president took office i think it was january 24th of 2017? well, i think the judge wanted to emphasize that it is a serious crime to lie to the fbi. and the fact that flynn and his lawyers tried to walk back responsibility in that brief they filed, i m sure caught the judge s attention. and we cannot have a system of law where you have michael flynn and the president of the united states essentially saying it s okay to lie to the fbi. it s not, and our system of law would collapse if people thought
you already have michael flynn making their case, his team making their case about this. the president, we ll have to see. you saw him tweet about flynn, saying he believes he is stronger than some of the others, that he s not weak. clearly the president has been supportive of his former national security adviser through this. so we ll have to wait and see how the white house responds. we know you ll continue to read through it. thank you, pamela. what else are you guys seeing? one of the other interesting notes is that in a phone call from january 24th of 2017 when the fbi initial lily reaches ouo lieutenant flynn, they say they want to talk to him and they ask him questions about his conversations with the russians. he said they say that he explained that he had been trying to build relationships with the russians, that he had calls in which he exchanged