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This answer allowed the fake news media to blend questions about pre-election campaign contacts with necessary, and entirely appropriate, transition team contacts.  Once Vice President Pence made the statement that Flynn had no contact with anyone from Russia, any contradictory statement from Flynn would make Pence appear compromised.  The toxic media environment now became a much bigger issue.  The FBI was prepared to pounce.  

This answer allowed the fake news media to blend questions about pre-election campaign contacts with necessary, and entirely appropriate, transition team contacts.  Once Vice President Pence made the statement that Flynn had no contact with anyone from Russia, any contradictory statement from Flynn would make Pence appear compromised.  The toxic media environment now became a much bigger issue.  The FBI was prepared to pounce.  

January 23, 2017, the day before the Flynn interview, [[Lisa Page]] texted:  

January 23, 2017, the day before Flynn was interviewed, [[Lisa Page]] texted:  

{{quotebox|“I can feel my heart beating harder, I’m so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails.”}}

{{quotebox|“I can feel my heart beating harder, I’m so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails.”}}