have to keep repeatedly telling him not to contact flynn. this is -- i'm sorry. you're at new york magazine now. this is a remarkable sort of development if you just look at the flynn subpoena in and of itself and signals that there's nowhere to go here but forward on this. >> right. i think donald trump did not like the way that things were proceeding, and he wanted to put a stop to it. this is the most trump thing that has ever happened since he took office basically. and it really does have trump written all over it. it's very difficult to believe their news story that this was not his idea. >> michael, this is a quote from ken dilanian, my colleague, from someone in intelligence. it's former senior intelligence official. the way this was done i think was done to send a message to the fbi agents left behind. it's not that they removed him. it's they did it in the thuggish and most humiliating way possible. instant execution. the bodyguard delivers the letter to headquarters. i think thats with designed to send a message. cut this stuff out, or this will happen to you.