As the Today show cameras rolled on Tuesday morning, host Matt Lauer asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway the question she presumably anticipated when she agreed to appear on the morning show. Hours earlier, national security adviser Lieutenant General Michael Flynn had resigned after less than a month on the job. Donald Trump’s White House was in disarray amid mounting furor surrounding Flynn’s pre-inauguration phone call with Russia’s U.S. ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during which the two reportedly discussed easing President Barack Obama’s sanctions once Trump took office. Flynn told Vice President Mike Pence, among others, that the question of sanctions never came up—a statement that Pence then publicly repeated. In his resignation letter, Flynn wrote that he had “inadvertently briefed the vice president–elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador.”

It was unclear why Flynn misrepresented the conversation, which was reportedly recorded and transcribed by U.S. intelligence agencies—a routine practice for calls involving foreign diplomats, and one that Flynn should have known. It is also unclear whether Trump or other members of his administration were aware of the contents of the call. As The Washington Post reported Monday night, former acting attorney general Sally Yates had warned White House counsel Donald McGahn last month that she believed Flynn had misled senior administration officials about his conversation with the ambassador, potentially opening him up to being blackmailed by the Russians. When Trump was asked by reporters last week to respond to the Post story alleging that Flynn and Kislyak had discussed U.S. sanctions, the president said he had not heard anything but would look into it. (Trump fired Yates last month after she refused to enforce his travel ban.)

It was, in other words, a mess of Trumpian proportions. Here was Conway to the rescue.

Lauer asked Conway why, mere hours before Flynn’s resignation, she had claimed on MSNBC that the national security adviser still had the full trust of the president, even though he should have known about the issue for a month. “You’re saying that [misleading Vice President Pence] was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but the White House knew about that last month when the Justice Department warned the White House that General Flynn had not been completely honest in characterizing that conversation with the Russian ambassador. They even went further to say that as a result of that dishonesty, he was at risk for blackmailing by the Russians,” he told her.

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Conway responded with her typic fluttery obfuscations. “That’s one characterization,“ she said. “But the fact is that General Flynn continued in that position, was in the presidential daily briefings, was part of the leader calls as recently as yesterday, was there for the prime minister’s visit from Canada yesterday. As time wore on, obviously the situation had become unsustainable.”