and kayleigh mcananey's first press briefing she was unable to do that. you pointed out her mischaracterizing fbi notes when it comes to the michael flynn case. there are also other things that were a lot more easily identifiable. for example, she said that a $40 million in taxpayer money had been wasted on the mueller investigation. the disclosures from that investigation put the total cost at $32 million. but the amount of fees and penalties that stand to be collected from those convicted in that stand to exceed that. paul manafort alone could lose as much as $40 million in fees and penalties from his convictions in that case. so it will be at best a zero sum investigation. also, when she talked about the president's tweet supporting michigan protesters who stormed the state capitol there, she said the president was expressing the fact that they have a first amendment right. americans can read the tweet themselves. it said nothing about the first amendment. but what it did say was that some of these protests were "very good people." these protests, as y