michael flynn putting some things on hold when the obamas said, look, we'll go ahead and do it, and that way, the heat won't be on the trump white house in its opening weeks, but flynn putting it on hold. so, i think what we have here is it goes to the nuance of all of this. not all of it very clear cut. two great examples. did michael flynn put things on hold because it served his business interests with the turks? did he put on hold because the trump administration wasn't ready to commit to new policy on isis and wanted a chance to review everything? still a lot of nuance in some of these issues, kate. >> a lot of nuance, but you really hit on the perfect question. barbara starr, thank you so much for bringing that to us. i appreciate it. neda, let me get your reaction to that breaking news. how significant is this? >> that's very significant. when it comes to intelligence operations, putting anything on hold and possibly for a foreign power that does not have u.s. interests at heart is significant. when it came to raqqah, under