Was The White House Unprepared For Flynn Plea?

No one in the White House was prepared.
White House staffers, fresh from their in-house holiday party Thursday, prepared to welcome the press to the annual media party later in the afternoon.
There were no leaks in advance that former national security adviser Michael Flynn planned to plead guilty to a single count of lying to FBI agents—lies he told in January, after Trump took office, about his contacts with Russia’s former ambassador to the U.S.