woop. anyways. >> speaking of rumors. who whole lot. >> developments and about the trump administration. >> but first, some serious questions about how the administration handled the dismissal of former national security adviser michael flynn. among the questions why was vice president mike pence kept in the dark for weeks about the fact thatly communication with russia. abc's jonathan carl has the the details on how the story has played out so far. >> reporter: surprising revelation from the white house. the president has known for nearly three weeks that national security adviser michael flynn deceived the vice president and the public about his conversations with the russian ambassador to the u.s. president fired him. >> the level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. >> the story begins on december 29th. when president obama sanctioned russia for meddling in the election. that same day, less than two hours after sanctions were imposed, flynn spo

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woop, got to run, see you, click. so you know, when i say this is not for the faint of heart, this heart. for the faint of so the ebb and flow of this discussion is going to continue, and we'll hear stories about so so says this today. today. so says that but the name of the game in this up is to g recognize that the status quo is unsustainable. so you are familiar with the blueprint. familiar with this document, and it's a proposal, essentially an invitation all across the country for people to engage, that we f the things learned from the passage of the affordable care act is how not to do this. but people feel jammed, if they feel like nobody is listening, if they feel like they don't opportunity to get their word in or to express theselves, then the system, process will actually seize up and it will collapse in on itself. similarly, you can talk yourself to death. you can contemplate yourself to death, and you can also create an environment where decisions are not made. pleased at the pace with which chairman brad

. >> woops, i lost my ear bud. >> that's a little bit better. >> hang on a second, i lost my ear bud. >> please, go ahead. one moment. that's what happens if you put a fuzzy hat on over your head in order to make a reference to the snowstorm here. there we go. >> there we go. sorry about that. >> can you hear me now, chris? >> yes, i can. >> no problem. in any case, so you're here in a moment where there's a lot of focus on pensions. the problems they've been having hitting their traditional growth targets. you guys are among those who have taken your sights down, haven't you? what do you expect as reasonably achievable going forward? >> well, the board just voted last week to lower the investment assumption to 7.25 for this year and then on down to 7% for next year, and i think, you know, over the next 30 years i think that's a very realistic number to shoot for for a retirement fund. our asset allocation does have growth when we have it, so last year we made an 8% return and it looked pretty good. >> you think that's reasonable over 30 years. so isn't that roughly what we've gotten,