mr. president, can you help me out and make this investigation go away or the president offered to do so, that gets you a little further along to an issue of obstruction. so the kinds of things that michael flynn can talk about include conversations he had with the president, not only about turkey but also about his -- the president's interactions with jim comey, the firing of jim comey. and by the way, all sorts of things that we may not know about, including other cabinet officials and members of the president's family who also serve in some capacity for the president and they can include the president himself. i want to caution everybody that this is speculation but it's based on how the process has tended to work in the past. >> and just to sort of button it up, if you are president trump right now, knowing that this is your former national security adviser, somebody who you spend a lot of time with during your campaign, how worried are you that michael flynn is cutting a deal? >> it depends on what the president has done and what the president's conversations with