. >> on february 14 after general flynn redescribed, sean spacer said there's nothing in which general flintdisconducting himself. >> if he didn't reach that conversation with us, i can't speak to how he arrived at that. >> there was a period of time, 18 days during the course of this. during that period of 18 days, a number of things occurred. general flynn continued to serve as the national security adviser for 18 days after you briefed the white house about the counter intelligence risk that he posed. in those 18 days, general flynn continued to hire key senior staff on the national security council, announce new sanctions on iran's ballistic missile program, met with president abe from japan and talks act responding to a north korean missile launch and spoke to the press about his communications with russian ambassador kysliac. >> i was no longer with doj after january 30th. i was no longer aware of the actions that he took. i couldn't opine on that. >> general clapper, could you comment? if you had the warning from department of justice about