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the sequence suggested that trump might have known of flynn's role, but it was unclear what flynn had about his conversations with kislyak. so new detailed reporting on who, what, where, and when in terms of figuring out that, yes, the national security adviser mike flynn was having conversations with the russian government that he was lying to everybody about. got it. the vice president personally going down to the situation room to review the transcripts of the intercepted phone calls between kislyak and flynn? okay, that's interesting. the vice president's assertions about what he knew about mike flynn and when on flynn's calls to russia, on flynn's discussions about sanctions with russia, on flynn's work as a foreign agent during the campaign, on flynn bringing his son on board during the trump transition, on a lot of different things between pence and flynn, it has all been super tenuous in terms of the vice president's knowledge and his public statements. so placing the vice president personally in the situation room, personally analyzing and reading flynn's transcribed calls wi
the sequence suggested that trump might have known of flynn's role, but it was unclear what flynn had about his conversations with kislyak. so new detailed reporting on who, what, where, and when in terms of figuring out that, yes, the national security adviser mike flynn was having conversations with the russian government that he was lying to everybody about. got it. the vice president personally going down to the situation room to review the transcripts of the intercepted phone calls between...
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we saw mueller do this with michael flynn's son.use family members, the threat of prosecution of them as leverage, as a means to coerce subject or target to do what the prosecutor wants them to do. so i think what mueller wants to hear from manafort has to do, of course, with that infamous meeting with the russian lawyer. now mueller has an inside man, somebody who is obviously there. manafort also was the chair of the campaign during the wikileaks dump of all of that e-mail that was damaging to hillary clinton. and the last thing, nicole, is if the president made any kind of suggestions to manafort about a pardon, that's smoking gun evidence of obstruction of justice. >> i was going to ask you about that. the manafort cooperation agreement had something in there about witness tampering. and i wonder if you think that we're supposed to be putting together almost like taking these -- building a collage. do we take these key words out of the mueller indictments and charging documents. that our best road map into what he is really up t
we saw mueller do this with michael flynn's son.use family members, the threat of prosecution of them as leverage, as a means to coerce subject or target to do what the prosecutor wants them to do. so i think what mueller wants to hear from manafort has to do, of course, with that infamous meeting with the russian lawyer. now mueller has an inside man, somebody who is obviously there. manafort also was the chair of the campaign during the wikileaks dump of all of that e-mail that was damaging...
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. >>> tonight bob woodward on trump's war on truth and what he says people are calling the mike flynn mystery. >>> and donald trump jr. says he's not afraid of jail time that may result from the russia case while he laments that his father can't trust that many people on the inside anymore. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a tuesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 600 of the trump presidency, and on top of the daily threat that the ongoing russia investigation represents for this white house, they are about to be handed an all but certain natural disaster along our most vulnerable coastline, a threat to any white house, and this president seems convinced we've never been more ready. >> we are totally prepared. we're ready. we're as ready as anybody has ever been. it looks to me and it looks to all of -- a lot of very talented people who do this for a living like this is going to be a storm that's going to be a very large one. far larger than we've seen in perhaps decades. it's tremendously big and tremendously wet. >> th
. >>> tonight bob woodward on trump's war on truth and what he says people are calling the mike flynn mystery. >>> and donald trump jr. says he's not afraid of jail time that may result from the russia case while he laments that his father can't trust that many people on the inside anymore. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a tuesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 600 of the trump presidency, and on top...
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on flynn, it does indicate he's done with him. usually you'd keep him around if he might need to testify. but in all of these, we're find with manafort, cohen, et cetera, mueller has belt and suspendered everything. we have the testimony from weisselberg and pecker on what cohen has to say in general. you have a really comprehensive and duplicative investigation by mueller. so i think he thinks he can let flynn go. >> i cut you off. >> if you step back and look at the forest end of the trees which is hard in a trump presidency. mueller has had cooperation from manafort, cohen and flynn. think about that. so he knows everything. he may or may not have discovered things that would be legitimate grounds for impeachment, either on collusion or obstruction. i think he's probably discovered enough he'd feel he'd have to let congress know what he's discovered. so one way or another, i think we're looking at presumably, fairly soon after the election, the next two or three months after, a mueller report one way or another. if trump fires
on flynn, it does indicate he's done with him. usually you'd keep him around if he might need to testify. but in all of these, we're find with manafort, cohen, et cetera, mueller has belt and suspendered everything. we have the testimony from weisselberg and pecker on what cohen has to say in general. you have a really comprehensive and duplicative investigation by mueller. so i think he thinks he can let flynn go. >> i cut you off. >> if you step back and look at the forest end of...
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flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador.aximum of a five-year sentence, but senior federal prosecutors not involved in the case told nbc news at the time of flynn's plea deal, that it is unlikely that he will spend even one day in prison. >>> and there is a new investigation targeting brock long, the top official at fema. according to the "new york times," house republicans plan to investigate reports that long repeatedly misused government vehicles to commute from washington to north carolina where his family resides. house oversight committee trey gowdy requested documentation about his use of the government vehicles. according to the "wall street journal," the investigation has been turned over to federal prosecutors to determine whether criminal charges should be pursued. >>> an indicted representative chris kcolilins has announced h will in fact seek a fourth term in congress despite facing insider trading charges. he made the announcement yesterday in a stunning reversal. the republican decided to stay on the ballot on
flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador.aximum of a five-year sentence, but senior federal prosecutors not involved in the case told nbc news at the time of flynn's plea deal, that it is unlikely that he will spend even one day in prison. >>> and there is a new investigation targeting brock long, the top official at fema. according to the "new york times," house republicans plan to investigate reports that long repeatedly...
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it comes on the same day we know they are ready to sentence michael flynn.e's been cooperating ever since. with us to talk about all of t daniel goldman, a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. i'll get straight to the point. how big a deal is this? >> brian, i think this is the most egregious and flagrant, obstructive conduct that the president has ever exercised since he became president. i think in many respects, it may be worse than firing jim comey, and here's why. the president is under investigation. he absolutely has the power to declassify documents, but what he is doing here is he is declassifying documents related to an ongoing confidential investigation into himself and his family. so it's kind of a dual-pronged, improper abuse and attack on the rule of law. because, first of all, it would be wrong under any circumstances to declassify anything relate to do an ongoing investigation. congress absolutely has oversight power, but it does not have oversight power during and over a pending investigation. when you layer
it comes on the same day we know they are ready to sentence michael flynn.e's been cooperating ever since. with us to talk about all of t daniel goldman, a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. i'll get straight to the point. how big a deal is this? >> brian, i think this is the most egregious and flagrant, obstructive conduct that the president has ever exercised since he became president. i think in many respects, it may be worse than firing jim comey,...
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she previously served as advisor to michael flynn and was a close ally of his.ack in the summer of 2017, she told investigators that she never talked with flynn regarding his meeting with sergei kiy kislyak. when she spoke with flynn in late december of 2016, a general statement made to her that things are going okay could have been a reference to sanctions. the post reported that for a while investigators viewed her statements as inconsistent, putting her in potential legal peril regarding possibly lying to the fbi however, according to people familiar with the probe, macfarland and her legal team convinced the fbi that she was not intentionally misleading but had spoken from memory the special counsel now appears satisfied with macfarland's refused account. according to flynn's guilty plea, before he spoke to kislyak, he spoke to macfarland about sanctions. >>> let's get a check of our forecast with bill karins. how quickly is it going to get cold >> this weekend we clicked into fall and now it's cooled off dramatically especially in new england along the i-95
she previously served as advisor to michael flynn and was a close ally of his.ack in the summer of 2017, she told investigators that she never talked with flynn regarding his meeting with sergei kiy kislyak. when she spoke with flynn in late december of 2016, a general statement made to her that things are going okay could have been a reference to sanctions. the post reported that for a while investigators viewed her statements as inconsistent, putting her in potential legal peril regarding...
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as part of a plea deal last year, flynn admitted to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russianfficials. prosecutors have delayed his sentencing as the investigation continued. they now have asked the judge to set sentencing for november 28th so the specifics of flynn's cooperation would be kept private from the public until after the midterm elections. >>> for the second year in a row the united states is cutting the number of refugees it accepts. up to 30,000 will be allowed into the country next year. 15,000 less than this year. it's the lowest number of refugee admissions since 1980. >> this year's refugee ceiling also reflects our commitment, our commitment to protect the most vulnerable around the world while prioritizing the safety and well-being of the american people. >> president trump has made limiting immigration a centerpiece of his policy agenda. >>> and coming up on the morning news, a trip of a lifetime. spacex reveals its first moon passengers. >>> and a surprise on emmy night. a winner pops the question to his girlfriend. this is the "cbs morning news." and tal
as part of a plea deal last year, flynn admitted to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russianfficials. prosecutors have delayed his sentencing as the investigation continued. they now have asked the judge to set sentencing for november 28th so the specifics of flynn's cooperation would be kept private from the public until after the midterm elections. >>> for the second year in a row the united states is cutting the number of refugees it accepts. up to 30,000 will be allowed...
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this hour, new rescues, new deaths and new warning in the florence disaster. >>> flynn's fate.ys the president's fired national security adviser is now ready to be sentenced after michael nin spent months cooperating. what does it tell us about the status of the russia investigation? >>> and paul's conversion. now that paul manafort flipped, there's intense speculation about what he is telling the special counsel. the russia probe is clearly in a crucial new phase tonight. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> this is "cnn breaking news." >>> breaking news tonight. a republican senator now says there will be a full opportunity for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his
this hour, new rescues, new deaths and new warning in the florence disaster. >>> flynn's fate.ys the president's fired national security adviser is now ready to be sentenced after michael nin spent months cooperating. what does it tell us about the status of the russia investigation? >>> and paul's conversion. now that paul manafort flipped, there's intense speculation about what he is telling the special counsel. the russia probe is clearly in a crucial new phase tonight. we...
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for this nonsense. >> mike flynn was negotiating policy. john kerry met with a former colleague about a world event. and he said wait him out. judge jeanine: in addition to munich he met him in norway and at the u.n. he admits he's talking to him aboutal damaging the iran deal. that's negotiating with a foreign power. >> he was not negotiating. they are chatting. it's like you and i. we want to talk politics. judge jeanine: i'm not the secretary of state and you are not a prime minister. danaminister.dan, hit it. >> this is why people cannot extend liberals. i don't mind democrats. it's liberals like chris. did you see how he snakes his way out of that? john kerry was involved in a dispute with the united states over the iran deal. he was unauthorized. he went over seas and told the iranians, an enemy of the united states, what to do to battle back against the trump administration. >> i told him to wait it out. judge jeanine: why would kerry be so invested in this iran deal? is he invested? >> of course he's invested. he's the one who got i
for this nonsense. >> mike flynn was negotiating policy. john kerry met with a former colleague about a world event. and he said wait him out. judge jeanine: in addition to munich he met him in norway and at the u.n. he admits he's talking to him aboutal damaging the iran deal. that's negotiating with a foreign power. >> he was not negotiating. they are chatting. it's like you and i. we want to talk politics. judge jeanine: i'm not the secretary of state and you are not a prime...
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flynn or go easy on mr. flynn, which was one of the things -- along with firing mr. that triggered the appointment of the special counsel. although that was the state of play perhaps back in may of 2017, there have been significant developments since then on the collusion front. in july of 2017, we found out about the trump tower meeting. and indications of potential collusion going on with high-ranking campaign officials. around that same month, there was the indictments of campaign chairman paul manafort and his deputy rick gates, as well as the guilty plea of george papadopoulos. there have been further development along the lines, michael cohen's guilty plea and testimony. i'm not sure how much it matters now that we've got that in the mix. regarding what the state of play was back in may of 2017. >> melissa: from a legal perspective, sort of the way you described it is that it's not supposed to be that you put together special counsel to then go find a crime. they are supposed to know about a crime and then go investigated. the way you just described it, it's ki
flynn or go easy on mr. flynn, which was one of the things -- along with firing mr. that triggered the appointment of the special counsel. although that was the state of play perhaps back in may of 2017, there have been significant developments since then on the collusion front. in july of 2017, we found out about the trump tower meeting. and indications of potential collusion going on with high-ranking campaign officials. around that same month, there was the indictments of campaign chairman...
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. >>> former national security adviser michael flynn set to be sentenced on december 18th. he pled guilty over the conversations with the former ambassador. the sentencing suggests the cooperation is coming to an end. >>> chris collins has returned to campaign for re-election while under indictment on federal insider trading charges. the buffalo area republican says the stakes are too high. last month, collins suspended his campaign while the gop looked for a way to replace him. collins was one of president trump's earliest supporters in the 2016 campaign. he is calling the wire fraud charges meritless. >>> the trade war with china may have killed 1 million u.s. jobs. that is according to jack ma. ma runs the biggest chinese company alibaba. he pledged to create 1 million u.s. jobs. that followed a meeting with then president-elect president trump. now ma says his plan is off. the promise was made on the premise of friendly u.s. and china partnership and rational trade relations. that premise no longer exists today. our promise cannot be fulfilled. alibaba confirmed ma's co
. >>> former national security adviser michael flynn set to be sentenced on december 18th. he pled guilty over the conversations with the former ambassador. the sentencing suggests the cooperation is coming to an end. >>> chris collins has returned to campaign for re-election while under indictment on federal insider trading charges. the buffalo area republican says the stakes are too high. last month, collins suspended his campaign while the gop looked for a way to replace...
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flynn: it seems like it. this is not unlike the early days of the fourth quarter company and federal regulators were trying to remove ford. tesla is based on elon musk being able to carry out his vision. this is a huge hit to his credibility that is why the market is concerned. alix: david, 420 you had to know that, come on. you know me better than that. of thehis is one craziest things someone has done for their girlfriends, but the issue is coup would actually fired musk? what is it going to take? i would think you would get a settlement out of it rather than the sec following through. if they did, he would be barred from running any public company. with his involvement in so many different things, that is a problem for your he was going to settle, and they canceled it at the last minute. it is a hammer to get him back to the table. not only the sec but the market. same thing with italy. cutting the price for tesla. you're getting big reaction by people in the markets. the third story comes out of the inter
flynn: it seems like it. this is not unlike the early days of the fourth quarter company and federal regulators were trying to remove ford. tesla is based on elon musk being able to carry out his vision. this is a huge hit to his credibility that is why the market is concerned. alix: david, 420 you had to know that, come on. you know me better than that. of thehis is one craziest things someone has done for their girlfriends, but the issue is coup would actually fired musk? what is it going to...
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flynn would know a lot, i don't know what kind of deal flynn is going to get at the end of the day i haveheanyt ming out of the mueller world showing pollution between trump and the russians, but that's let a guy like mueller do his job. i trust him to be honest and fair and time will tele. >> dickerson: what i was open hoping your experience as prosecutor and i am preachment manager who had to deal with a tase that started back in a land deal, a different thing when it wt to you. ouis started with collusion may end up somewhere else. the president has called it, continues to call it a witch hunt. so, given that record, though, is it a witch hunt or is it proceeding as would you expect a prosecutor to go forward? >> i think it's proceeding in a ty that these things start with a land deal and wind up with a hlue dress. this started with an accusation of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. fow we've got all kind of things w new york and mr. manafort's sobbying business apart from refore he met trump. so i don't know where it's going to go. only thing i can tell you, not on
flynn would know a lot, i don't know what kind of deal flynn is going to get at the end of the day i haveheanyt ming out of the mueller world showing pollution between trump and the russians, but that's let a guy like mueller do his job. i trust him to be honest and fair and time will tele. >> dickerson: what i was open hoping your experience as prosecutor and i am preachment manager who had to deal with a tase that started back in a land deal, a different thing when it wt to you. ouis...
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if he ends up prosecuting flynn and manafort and nobody close to the presidents, and -- >> and managed the campaign. >> look at manafort. people believe in the presumption of innocence. manafort is in solitary confinement without having been convicted of any crime. and he has been indicted. you can indict a ham sandwich and there are thousands, tens of thousands of minority young people in prison without having been convicted of any crime. and indictment is enough in right there is. go visit it someday. this is a scandal. how many today are in jail before there is a conviction? without a conviction? something very wrong with that whether it is paul manafort or 20-year-old black kid who can't raise the bail. >> one last question. we have an audience question about brett kavanaugh. what decisions he might overturn? i want to ask about the one that relates to the matter which is clinton versus jones which requires bill clinton to testify in a civil suit followed jones brought over sexual harassment, similarly involved president nixon. brett kavanaugh's writing has been misinterpreted beca
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as of now, as of tonight the judge in his case has finally set a date for michael flynn to be sentenced. we've got a firm date now. december 18th, 11:00 a.m., courtroom 24a. mark your calendar. that does it for us tonight. time for lawrence o'donnell. >> december 18th was going to be a christmas shopping night for me, but i'll be here. i will be here december 18th. rachel, you know what, i've got to say i was taking some notes here. and when you said the highest ranking member of the trump administration to plead guilty, i was so deep in kavanaugh i said what and had forgotten about this name named michael flynn. brett kavanaugh has taken up that space. >> and between now and december 18th we're going to get all sorts of interesting filings which prosecutors will tell us how much he has cooperated. so between now and when he gets sentenced we're about to learn a lot about how flynn has factored in this case. which should be interesting in terms of understanding where mueller is his team are at. >> we've now embarked most of an hour discussing the lies the members on the senate judiciary
as of now, as of tonight the judge in his case has finally set a date for michael flynn to be sentenced. we've got a firm date now. december 18th, 11:00 a.m., courtroom 24a. mark your calendar. that does it for us tonight. time for lawrence o'donnell. >> december 18th was going to be a christmas shopping night for me, but i'll be here. i will be here december 18th. rachel, you know what, i've got to say i was taking some notes here. and when you said the highest ranking member of the...
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michael flynn was his national security adviser.ed, who have pled guilty have close connections to the president, as much as he now wants to distance himself from it. so this does not spell good news for the president. clearly there have been indictments in this. again, people that pleaded guilty. of course the president is shaking in his boots. i wonder if his ridiculous, offensive statements about questioning the death toll in puerto rico are efforts to distract from all of this other stuff going on. what we do know is going into an election where everybody, including republicans, are so nervous about this president, his connection to the republican party, i think republicans would do themselves a great service by distancing themselves finally from the president, calling him out on his incompetence. >> i'm sorry we ran out of time. good to get your perspective. thank you both. >>> katie har tongue is in north carolina. stay close. you'll make my morning, buty the price ruin my day.ou? complicated relationship with milk? pour on th
michael flynn was his national security adviser.ed, who have pled guilty have close connections to the president, as much as he now wants to distance himself from it. so this does not spell good news for the president. clearly there have been indictments in this. again, people that pleaded guilty. of course the president is shaking in his boots. i wonder if his ridiculous, offensive statements about questioning the death toll in puerto rico are efforts to distract from all of this other stuff...
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the last week of november, so after the midterm elections, they now plan to finally sentence mike flynn for the felony charge to which he pled guilty. that means among other things that in court filings between now and then, between now and his sentence, we're going to learn how much cooperating mike flynn has actually been doing. we will get a description of the extent and the helpfulness of his cooperation from prosecutors in the special counsel's office starting relatively soon now, now that they have scheduled his sentencing. we also just got this statement from the white house tonight announcing that the president has ordered the declassification of a whole bunch of internal fbi and justice department documents from the ongoing russia investigation. he is going to start making public more text messages among fbi and doj officials and specific pages from the applications for search warrants and fbi materials related to bruce ohr, who was the top justice department official working on russian organized crime and its connections to the russian government. bruce ohr is now the next sen
the last week of november, so after the midterm elections, they now plan to finally sentence mike flynn for the felony charge to which he pled guilty. that means among other things that in court filings between now and then, between now and his sentence, we're going to learn how much cooperating mike flynn has actually been doing. we will get a description of the extent and the helpfulness of his cooperation from prosecutors in the special counsel's office starting relatively soon now, now that...
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flynn originally made false statements when he was asked about the conversations he had with russia'she has pleaded guilty to lying to the authorities about that. and has been cooperating with mueller's investigation, and jim, this is significant, right, for a reason you pointed out this morning. >> that's right, it would seem to indicate that robert mueller no longer needs michael flynn's cooperation or that in the time since, because remember, when he was charged, he was charged so many months ago, delaying the sentencing because part of his agreement was to cooperate in this investigation. and if they're moving forward on this, it would seem he has gained all he can from that cooperation. >> they have been pushing off that sentencing for months. >> something they had to justify. >> all right. >> coming up next, the woman accusing judge kavanaugh of sexual assault has been given now less than 24 hours to decide if she will testify, whether in public or in private. democrats want her story heard. and want to know why republicans are in such a hurry. i can't believe it. that everythin
flynn originally made false statements when he was asked about the conversations he had with russia'she has pleaded guilty to lying to the authorities about that. and has been cooperating with mueller's investigation, and jim, this is significant, right, for a reason you pointed out this morning. >> that's right, it would seem to indicate that robert mueller no longer needs michael flynn's cooperation or that in the time since, because remember, when he was charged, he was charged so many...
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flynn is ready for sentencing on november 28 or 7 business days after that.om that? >> some think they're not going to use him in a prosecutorial intention with someone else. we just know a very small portion of what's actually happening. i think the bigger issue people are curious about or need know about is why do we even care diplomat? it's been a tsunami of this information. and today happens to be constitution day. 1787 was a majority of the delegates signed the document and why does in matter? it matters because we're talking about five of the president's closest advisors and potential serious wrongdoing by the president of the united states and the big issue is what's going to happen next? i think this is careening towards a resolution faster than anyone expected, in part, because as dick said, mueller is a pro and how could this resolve? it could resolve through congress doing an impeachment, the president resigning because he's worried about his children, he's worried about the implications for his business. it could -- the 25th amendment is not a po
flynn is ready for sentencing on november 28 or 7 business days after that.om that? >> some think they're not going to use him in a prosecutorial intention with someone else. we just know a very small portion of what's actually happening. i think the bigger issue people are curious about or need know about is why do we even care diplomat? it's been a tsunami of this information. and today happens to be constitution day. 1787 was a majority of the delegates signed the document and why does...
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special counsel mueller and flynn's attorneys proposed sentencing being set for november 28th or anylty last december to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador. and agreed to cooperate with mueller in exchange for a reduced sentence. the crime calls for a maximum five-year sentence but senior federal prosecutors not involved with the case tell nbc news that the time of flynn's plea deal, that is unlikely he will spend even a single day in prison. you have people at the side of president trump during the 2016 presidential campaign in paul manafort, in flynn, you can extend that to cohen as well. it does seem that the walls are closing in around the president. >> yes, and willie, this dance has a rhythm to it, right, so this release of otherwise classified information that we were talking about, it's not a cowednesd coincidence it comes on the heels of the manafort cooperation. every time bob mueller makes some progress, and think of the progress he's made. at the end of the day, a criminal investigation is not about a fisa application. it's who gets convi
special counsel mueller and flynn's attorneys proposed sentencing being set for november 28th or anylty last december to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador. and agreed to cooperate with mueller in exchange for a reduced sentence. the crime calls for a maximum five-year sentence but senior federal prosecutors not involved with the case tell nbc news that the time of flynn's plea deal, that is unlikely he will spend even a single day in prison. you have people at...
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. >> betsy, he also did that with flynn for a while, remember? he was sort of teasing him, offering him, i'm really sad for the guy. then he sort of stopped that stuff. he's still working on manafort. >> what's interesting about the flynn situation is that he has been working with mueller's team for months and months now. and the date of his sentencing keeps getting moved forward. now, there hasn't been public reporting as to what exactly flynn is helping mueller find out, but it's generated a ton of speculation, and i imagine some stress in the white house that this person who is deeply involved in the president's campaign, deeply involved in those consequential early few days in his presidency, has been quietly talking with mueller for months. >> so many concerns if you're trump. anyway, the panel's staying with us for the hour. and up next, this guy. >> you know, you're really beautiful. >> this may be the best of all. oh, you dirty boy. oh. oh! donald, i thought you were a gentleman. >> you know, he is an actor. and we're watching that today
. >> betsy, he also did that with flynn for a while, remember? he was sort of teasing him, offering him, i'm really sad for the guy. then he sort of stopped that stuff. he's still working on manafort. >> what's interesting about the flynn situation is that he has been working with mueller's team for months and months now. and the date of his sentencing keeps getting moved forward. now, there hasn't been public reporting as to what exactly flynn is helping mueller find out, but it's...
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mystery, the mysteries of michael flynn and what went on in those days at the white house before he was fired. and so that seems like that's up to special prosecutor to explain that one. >> well, it's something that, you know, a congressional investigation could explain, too. we don't seem to be having that on the house side. remember, we're waiting for the senate intelligence committee's investigation which may or may not be better than the house intelligence. there still are dozens of questions, particularly in the trump-russia scandal that bob's book doesn't address, doesn't get to, and the public deserves answers to. and trump, of course, is trying to distract mightily from that. >> david marinas, before we go, future historians when they come to bob woodward's book and they come to what we now know about this presidency, what would be the historian's take on bob woodward's book, reading it 50 years from now? >> i think they'll find it largely reliable, as historians have found when they've gone over the notes of his books on nixon. john farrell who wrote a great biography of ni
mystery, the mysteries of michael flynn and what went on in those days at the white house before he was fired. and so that seems like that's up to special prosecutor to explain that one. >> well, it's something that, you know, a congressional investigation could explain, too. we don't seem to be having that on the house side. remember, we're waiting for the senate intelligence committee's investigation which may or may not be better than the house intelligence. there still are dozens of...
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now, flynn, where the fbi said he didn't lie, but mueller's people said he did lie. so i don't want to be set up with a perjury trap. >> now, here is that picture of that table. we'll put it up for you in that meeting in march 2016, papadopoulos lawyers also punched back about what happened in that room you're looking. they say while some rebuffed it, trump nodded, deferring to sessions who appeared to like the idea. now, mueller is now effectively done with that defendant. but today he was putting another witness into that intimidating grand jury room. it was a busy day for mueller, randy creditco who has links to julian assange and roger stone was back there testifying. of course, it makes you wonder, was mueller interested in wikileaks today or roger stone or both? we learned the answer. take a look. >> how much of the questioning have you -- of assange? >> very little. no, don't -- the major -- the majority of the questioning had to do with roger stone. specific questions we're not going to get into. >> you saw the lawyer trying to get creditco not to answer. tha
now, flynn, where the fbi said he didn't lie, but mueller's people said he did lie. so i don't want to be set up with a perjury trap. >> now, here is that picture of that table. we'll put it up for you in that meeting in march 2016, papadopoulos lawyers also punched back about what happened in that room you're looking. they say while some rebuffed it, trump nodded, deferring to sessions who appeared to like the idea. now, mueller is now effectively done with that defendant. but today he...
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you have flynn and -- look at them, manafort, cohen, gates, flynn, pecker. >> those are people he dealtrsonally and in a businessmaner, david peck her secrets in a safe at the nation "national enquirer." the president has to be sitting back and thinking all these people are talking and paul manman manafort is just another man on the list. >> the nature of our politics today is we're constantly talking about prosecutors and people flipping, people going to jail. we should be talking about the state of the country. this is obsessing us and understandably so. >> i think part of the story perhaps with the president and all of these people who have been indicted or have come under questioning. is that he may not have any deep insight into their nature because he didn't really know them. so he almost can't judge where they're going next, the people around trump during the campaign were an island of broken toys. they were individual operatives, they were driven by their own drama. donald trump couldn't get anybody else, he couldn't get the grown ups to join and he got what he got. >> and that
you have flynn and -- look at them, manafort, cohen, gates, flynn, pecker. >> those are people he dealtrsonally and in a businessmaner, david peck her secrets in a safe at the nation "national enquirer." the president has to be sitting back and thinking all these people are talking and paul manman manafort is just another man on the list. >> the nature of our politics today is we're constantly talking about prosecutors and people flipping, people going to jail. we should...
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former national security adviser michael flynn has been cooperating.ump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos has been cooperating. i mean, when the president looks at this list and i would argue in the titles of most of these people on this list, how could he not be concerned? >> of course. these are key figures that the president well noepz can put together a narrative starting ten years ago with michael cohen and business relationships president trump was trying to build in vladimir putin's russia, trying to understand russia, trying to understand finances and construction and business development in russia. then going forward to folks like rick gates and paul manafort and michael flynn, who had firsthand experience in the politics of russia in how putin thinks, in what was going on between russia and ukraine. again, it's sort of a collection of people that could build into a narrative around russia. whether that gets to collusion, whether that gets to president trump wanting to build a certain kind of relationship with putin and havin
former national security adviser michael flynn has been cooperating.ump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos has been cooperating. i mean, when the president looks at this list and i would argue in the titles of most of these people on this list, how could he not be concerned? >> of course. these are key figures that the president well noepz can put together a narrative starting ten years ago with michael cohen and business relationships president trump was trying to build...
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wrote and said about that and to whom she was speaking and also the issue of investigating michael flynn festering issue on capitol hill. sally h, the obama appointee was obama's attorney general for ten days. there were these two huge issues. it was her decision for the justice department not to defend the first version of the travel order that president trump did i believe on january 27th. and senator grassley, chairman of the senate judiciary committee said that really handicapped the justice department. >> martha: makes a kind of difficult when the attorney general says we are not going to defend it. also, she was involved with the decision for the fbi to go interview michael flynn, the president's national security advisor on january 24th, just four days into the administration and there were a lot of reports at the time that she was concerned that michael flynn might have violated the logan act, which we heard a lot about at that time, 200 plus-year-old law that has never, ever been successfully prosecuted. questions about whether that was really a legitimate premise to go to that.
wrote and said about that and to whom she was speaking and also the issue of investigating michael flynn festering issue on capitol hill. sally h, the obama appointee was obama's attorney general for ten days. there were these two huge issues. it was her decision for the justice department not to defend the first version of the travel order that president trump did i believe on january 27th. and senator grassley, chairman of the senate judiciary committee said that really handicapped the...
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who have denied writing it., yon you were lied to by michael flynn, he was fired for lying to you. do you believe the denials this time? >> i do. because i know the men and women who serve with us in this cabinet. but i also do because whoever wrote that editorial, and the narrative that comes out of some other writings recently, just doesn't know what really happens in this white house. i've seen this president in action. is he demanding, yes. is he a strong leader who expects things done yesterday, yes. but for someone to say that what we've accomplished in the last 18 months is in spite of this president'sde ts aboutresident adminition.bout our >> brennan: one of the claims-n disc 25th amend tomorrow even remove the president from offi office. have you ever been part of a conversation about that? >> no. the truth of the matter is over the last eight years despite what we heard from president obama on friday -- >> by the time i left office, household income was near all all-time highs and uninsured rate had all time low, wages were rising, poverty rates were falling. i mention al
who have denied writing it., yon you were lied to by michael flynn, he was fired for lying to you. do you believe the denials this time? >> i do. because i know the men and women who serve with us in this cabinet. but i also do because whoever wrote that editorial, and the narrative that comes out of some other writings recently, just doesn't know what really happens in this white house. i've seen this president in action. is he demanding, yes. is he a strong leader who expects things...
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with mike flynn. >> yeah. >> did you ever talk about russia with mike flynn? >> no. >> never talked about russia with pike flynn, and you were hoping after the election to get a job working in foreign policy for the trump administration. >> of course. >> and it was in that context on january 27th, 2017 when you met with the fbi and lied to them about your meetings with joseph mifsud. why did you lie to them? >> as you stated quite eloquently, at the time of my interview with the fbi, i think around three or four days before that i was at the inauguration attending parties with senior level transition officials. i understood there was an incipient investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election, and i found myself as somebody who worked incredibly hard over the past year with the campaign to actually have candidate trump be elected and then i found myself pinned between the department of justice and the sitting president and having probing questions that i thought might incriminate the sitting president. >> you were trying to protect the president.
with mike flynn. >> yeah. >> did you ever talk about russia with mike flynn? >> no. >> never talked about russia with pike flynn, and you were hoping after the election to get a job working in foreign policy for the trump administration. >> of course. >> and it was in that context on january 27th, 2017 when you met with the fbi and lied to them about your meetings with joseph mifsud. why did you lie to them? >> as you stated quite eloquently, at the...
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warrant on flynn.arter page they did admit had taken place. we said, "what about the transcripts?" they initially said there were no transcripts and then they filed something last night. they told me there was never any court hearing on any of the page warrants. there was the initial warrant and then three subsequent renewals. and to me, it's astonishing and disturbing. when you look at these applications, it isn't about carter page. it's about the trump campaign. it's about candidate number one, president trump. three of those warrants were filed while he was either going to be president or when he was president. and these courts are supposed to provide oversight of the process, refused to do so. and of course they were gained by relying on the justice department of the fbi. so you've got the court falling asleep at the wheel here. and of course you've got the underlying corruption of the doj and fbi. and the leadership at the justice department and fbi are completely out to lunch in terms of highligh
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correspondent constantine flynn eggert reporting from vilnius lithuania many thanks indeed thank you. now should he stay or should he go the leaders of the three german coalition parties are discussing the fate of the country's embattled domestic spy chief right at this moment last week there were calls for hans-georg mohsen to be sacked after he questioned the authenticity of a video apparently showing farid violence in the city of chemists he was removed from his post but then received a promotion to the interior ministry well that infuriated even more people including members of the social democrats their leader and analysis then demanded that the decision on mohsen be renegotiated the fallout from the case has threatened to topple merkel's coalition government. our chief political editor michelle there has been following the story for us and she joins me now for more on all this so michelle the coalition leaders are still in talks at this very moment but has anything a leaked about a possible new solution for the muslim case what we think is the vision is very near and here mr haa
correspondent constantine flynn eggert reporting from vilnius lithuania many thanks indeed thank you. now should he stay or should he go the leaders of the three german coalition parties are discussing the fate of the country's embattled domestic spy chief right at this moment last week there were calls for hans-georg mohsen to be sacked after he questioned the authenticity of a video apparently showing farid violence in the city of chemists he was removed from his post but then received a...
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warrant on flynn.arter page they did admit had taken place. we said, "what about the transcripts?" they initially said there were no transcripts and then they filed something last night. they told me there was never any court hearing on any of the page warrants. there was the initial warrant and then three subsequent renewals. and to me, it's astonishing and disturbing. when you look at these applications, it isn't about carter page. it's about the trump campaign. it's about candidate number one, president trump. three of those warrants were filed while he was either going to be president or when he was president. and these courts are supposed to provide oversight of the process, refused to do so. and of course they were gained by relying on the justice department of the fbi. so you've got the court falling asleep at the wheel here. and of course you've got the underlying corruption of the doj and fbi. and the leadership at the justice department and fbi are completely out to lunch in terms of highligh
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we haven't heard a lot object what mike flynn has been saying.ynn has been talking to the prosecutors for a long time, i think interesting stories from that conversation right now. >> to finish this off, this is all about the way one government is trying to influence another and the reasons they are trying to build. we were leading a segment youof with bruce ohr trying to flip oem gas, russia heret this united states for instance you had recent conversations about how to if you will launder money in the united states to deep infrastructure. >> when you have a conversation where almost everything is for sale and russia has money to spend you have a perfect marriage. allowing russia to gain a foothold the fact that these persons were buying tickets for the inauguration, it may seem like small thing. it gives an iningof how they can buy access. >> thank you for joining us today. we'll be right back. you for jo today. we'll be right back. with my bladder leakage, the products i've tried just didn't fit right. they were very saggy. it's getting in the
we haven't heard a lot object what mike flynn has been saying.ynn has been talking to the prosecutors for a long time, i think interesting stories from that conversation right now. >> to finish this off, this is all about the way one government is trying to influence another and the reasons they are trying to build. we were leading a segment youof with bruce ohr trying to flip oem gas, russia heret this united states for instance you had recent conversations about how to if you will...
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not only that followed that up subsequent to that by firing general flynn on the grounds that he had lied about his conversation, had lied to the president of the united states and more seriously lied to the american public about that, and so this is the very story that he said was untrue and based on no sources whatsoever. this what is we're dealing with. it's a very weird environment and but in that sense he helped circulate the story we had in the first place. we're grateful for that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. i'm a freshman in the college. i'm curious in regards to overclassification in the regulation of information on a federal level, to what extent should i as a private citizen have faith that when my government acts, it's actually acting in my best interest? or should my relationship with this institution be at the best of times cautious and at the worst of times adversarial? >> the latter. [ applause ] >> that's a great last question. who wants to answer it? >> you stated in the comment, it is a good close for this panel. >> anyone? >> maybe jameal or carrie can t
not only that followed that up subsequent to that by firing general flynn on the grounds that he had lied about his conversation, had lied to the president of the united states and more seriously lied to the american public about that, and so this is the very story that he said was untrue and based on no sources whatsoever. this what is we're dealing with. it's a very weird environment and but in that sense he helped circulate the story we had in the first place. we're grateful for that....
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favorite incidents of that is when we reported that his initial national security adviser michael flynn had conversations with the russian ambassador about the lifting of sanctions prior to the administration taking office, that -- and flynn had denied that, we reported that he had had the conversations and spoken to the russian ambassador. subsequent to that, the president gave a speech and said that we had nine sources, we said we had nine sources. he said, they say they have nine sources but they have no sources. immediately after saying that, he called for a leak investigation. [laughter] >> i don't know how you reconcile the two. if we had no sources, what is he investigating? not only that, he followed that up subsequent to that by firing general flynn as he had lied to the president. and lied to the american public about that. and this is the same stories -- story that was untrue and was based on no sources whatsoever. so this is what were dealing with, it's a weird environment. in that sense, he helped circulate the story that we had in the first place. and we are grateful for t
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and you note that mike flynn was part of that dream team.ke flynn is now scheduled to be sentenced on december 18th, after the midterm elections. can you tell us if you learned anything new about mike flynn and his actions during the course of the election and transition over the course of your reporting? >> well, we called the initial appointees the dream team, because you know, as i was saying, they see donald trump emerge from the pack. he is the most russia-friendly of the candidates. and then as candidate trump begins to appoint his top foreign policy advisers, there is paul manafort who had done business for years in ukraine, essentially on russia's behalf. there was carter page, who russia had tried to recruit in 2013. and there was mike flynn, whose world view really was that the u.s. and russia should ally against radical islam and who had famously sat at the side of vladimir putin at a gala dinner in moscow not too long before. so, you know, now we're going to -- you know, one of the great mysteries of the mueller investigation has
and you note that mike flynn was part of that dream team.ke flynn is now scheduled to be sentenced on december 18th, after the midterm elections. can you tell us if you learned anything new about mike flynn and his actions during the course of the election and transition over the course of your reporting? >> well, we called the initial appointees the dream team, because you know, as i was saying, they see donald trump emerge from the pack. he is the most russia-friendly of the candidates....