ran into road blocks with that. it's his position, however, on the muslim community that has really surprised a lot of his friends in the special operations community. they're all like, love mike. he's the most loyal froeiend to have but we don't know where he's coming from on this labeling of all of islam as a political ideology rather than he was part of a team that used scalpel-like precision to try to get the islamic militants as oppose to the wider islamic community. that you need your friends in that world and many people in the world part of the effort to hunt terrorists who risked their lives for americans and risked their lives for special operators. that leaves some of mike flynn's former comrades going, where did this extremist viewpoint come from? >> they're puzzled. talks about islam as a political