adviser. katie pavlich is the editor at townhall.com and a fox news contributor. katie, the hot topic, michael flynn, and they seem to press on no matter how many times mr. spicer said hey, look, that was a long time ago, these papers happened before he came to the white house, basically we don t know anything. i think it s becoming increasingly clear that michael flynn should have never been hired by the administration. he was very dishonest in a number of ways. when he filled out his background check forms which is alarming considering the closeness he had with president trump. he served as a distraction for the administration for months. you saw the commerce secretary was there today and the goal was to talk about this tariff on lumber from canada. to talk about putting america first, in the sense of harvesting lumber in the u.s. that s not the headline. the headline, again, is michael flynn. so he s become a distraction. it s very clear that he really should have not been put in