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Seriously. it's a problem. >> okay, so here's the thing. everyone -- and listen i don't know -- but i have a bunch of friends in the military and they say -- john and matthew, and john dean, they say that it take the s f-86 very seriously as members of the military because they can be prosecuted if they get it wrong. so as a general, someone who's a general in the armed services, would general flynn not take it as seriously as the ranking file members who come in? >> i think he'd take it more seriously and it's something he clearly had experience with. this is something that you don't want to ...

Jeffrey is saying this leads things away from the president. but what's not clear and david gergen raises the point, is the president has always defended flynn whereas he hasn't defended other people in the same way nearly as much. was the president directing flynn to do stuff? was flynn, you know, keeping the president apprised of whatever it was he was doing and was there anything improper with that? again, we don't have any evidence that there was. but that seems to be what the investigation would try to figure out. >> well, there are a couple open questions. to david's point, yes, it was a...

Convinced. >> well, because we don't know anything about what flynn has to say. what we know about flynn is he's in trouble in the eastern district of virginia for his failure to register as a foreign agent. we know that he has been lying to people from collusion and the sf 86, the security form and has got two other people breathing down his neck so we know he's got a story to tell about himself. so the question is, who else does he have to tell it about. if we know that, we'll know if he's cooperating. >> knowing congress, the fact that senator whitehouse on senate judiciary, you know, is ta...

Everyone i know -- listen, i don't know, you know -- i have a bunch of friends who are in the military and they say that they -- john and matthew and john dean, they say that they take the sf-86 very seriously as members of the military because they can be prosecuted if they get it wrong. so, as a general, someone who is a general in the armed services, would general flynn not take it as seriously as the rank and file members who come in, you know, as civilians then come in? >> i think he would take it more seriously and it's something he clearly had experience with. this is something that you...

You could say, that was complete oversight on my part, but not when it starts to be a pattern. right? congressional investigators say they have no record of flynn ever identifying a single foreign government official he had contact with in seven years prior to submitting his application. john dean, that's a problem. >> it is a problem. also, that fs-86 form has a very conspicuous statement at the beginning and at the end that misstatements on it are subject to criminal prosecution under 18 us-c-1001 which is a tough statute which prosecutors know a lot about. >> do you think he's cooperating -...