evaluated, his role. stunning. >> it's pretty stunning, and to go back to the point that you and david were discussing. just imagine a circumstance where essentially the incoming national security adviser, michael flynn is confronting this issue of russian sanctions, the obama administration put sanctions on. what is the chance that he would freelance on that and reach out to a foreign above the agovernme contact and promises about sanctions without checking with the president-elect? >> it seems hard to imagine. >> it is hard to imagine that that would be a circumstance. so the crucial question has to be, did donald trump tell mike flynn to make contact with the russians and tell putin, don't overreact to these sanctions, we're going to water them down when i come in. we don't know, but it also fits into a larger pattern here, which has been puzzling. donald trump's world view, as we know it, is the rest of the world has always been trying to screw the united states. our allies try to screw us. the chinese, his words are