that fly into some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. let's get to it! first from fox news desk, the white house defending its handling of the former national security adviser general michael flynn. this comes a day after sally yates told lawmakers she warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by russia. yates testified that less than a week into the trump presidency, she told white house officials that flynn lied to vice president pence about his russian contacts. also, that the russians knew that he had lied and that they could use that information to black male him. the president did not fire flynn for another 18 days. last night president trump tweeted, sally yates make the fake media unhappy today. she said nothing but old news. today sean spicer said the white house made the right call about flynn when it fired him.