so long to greenlight sending those troops over. now to be clear, the pentagon is defending these two generals. gave us a statement saying that piatt and flynn were honest when they spoke to the committee. these are two diverging narratives and it doesn t seem possible for both of them to be true. the fact that there is this new emerging narrative coming out right now about why it took so long, is a really significant development. we should just be clear, this document is scorching. he says that the ig report, it is a revisionist tract worthy of the best stalinist or north korea propaganda-ness. says these men are liars. unmitigated lying, that flynn committed perjury. the big issue that strikes me here is that these both men are on the record and i believe under oath saying, we didn t slow walk this. because a concern about optics. we weren t worried about how it would look at the national guard was called up. that wasn t the issue. what you have for matthews is he is saying that is