katherine herridge face-to-face challenging james comey to get the deals.e begin with kristin fisher, the status of a possible government shutdown. >> reporter: there was a moment when it seemed may be a compromise was insight but the day ended with almost 0 progress. a senior senate republican sources we are is unsettled as we have been, the they knew anything about a specific plausible proposal that would keep the government. >> all talk right now. >> i don't know. if the white house has a plan they are keeping it to themselves. there is no way nancy pelosi is going to agree to a single solitary time for our border wall because she wants to be speaker. >> reporter: when they met with donald trump in the oval office they put two options on the table they claim could pass the house and senate. in a continuing resolution for all 7 outstanding appropriations bills were passed appropriations bills plus one your continuing resolution for homeland security that would include $1.3 billion for a fence but not a concrete wall. >> donald trump should support one of

katherine herridge brings us the latest. >> reporter: after an ethics review, acting attorney generalfree to oversee robert mueller's investigation. the justice department officials reveal more details about the internal ethics deliberations him a painting a more nuanced picture of the decision-making. during the process the source said an ethics official voiced concern over whitaker's previous negative media comments about the mueller probe. the official said it was a, quote, close call but recusal out of an abundance of caution. whitaker senior advisers consider the issue, recommended against recusal. the deputy attorney general who had primary oversight of the mueller team responded. >> bob mueller or rod rosenstein or matt whitaker, the investigation will be handled appropriately. >> reporter: bill bar is the choice to leave the justice department and in june as a private citizen he sent a letter to rosenstein questioning legal basis for any of section case against donald trump for firing fbi director james comey, quote, as i understand it mueller is premised on an insupportable r

heather: 245 times katherine herridge mentioned, could not remember -- these are substantive things likehow the investigation started, who was responsible for it, something most would know. >> you are a lawyer, i am a lawyer. i went back and read the transcript in preparation for this panel and what struck me about a number of instances were comey said he didn't remember, he was being read excerpts from transcripts and text messages, document he didn't have in front of him and asking for a verbatim accounting, is that factually accurate? he was very cautious and very intentional with his language especially because he had as you know an obligation to testify truthfully before congress, something michael cohen did not do it is facing jail time as a result. fair to say he was incredibly careful with his words but i empathize with him because in the 100 pages i reviewed ahead of this panel it was a grueling and arduous recitation of facts dating back to 2015. i certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with my memory without having document in front of me. >> if the democrats taught us the presid

we begin with breaking developments in robert mueller's probe with katherine herridge. >> the special counsel is recommending no jail time for flynn based on his substantial cooperation including 90 interviews and documents and communications he provided. the special counsel since then cooperated on multiple investigations concerning any links of coordination between the russian government, the trump campaign and trump transition team so they offer no specifics, also citing sensitive information, ongoing verification sections of the document are heavily blacked out redacted but here's one of the key quotes, the defendant provided information to the government not long after the government first sought cooperation. 's early cooperation a reference to flynn was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with long-term and first-hand insights regarding events and issues under investigation by the special counsel office. reacting to the flynn sentencing memo the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani spoke to fox news and likened the document to the guilty plea of th

katherine herridge is here to explain. >> reporter: conservative author jerome corsi found the 78 page ethics complaint against robert mueller accusing his investigators of bullying tactics to secure false testimony. according to corsi's complaint they wanted him to show that he was a liaison between republican political operative roger stone and wiki leaks out of julian assange on one side of the trump campaign on the other regarding act emails from the democratic national committee, quote, the special counsel's office is knowingly and deceitfully threatening to charge doctor corsi with alleged false statements during his first interview with the fbi on september 6, 2018. he told them he could not answer with certainty in which he had amended. in a recent fox interview he went further. >> special counsel happy with that until i couldn't give them what they wanted which was a connection i had with julian assange which i didn't have an. >> he drew down a key offer but michael cohen the president's former personal attorney cut a deal, for lying to congress about it from moscow real estat

katherine herridge fills us in. >> emmet sullivan give special counsel robert mueller's team 48 hours to provide underlying notes on the fbi's january 2017 interview of michael flynn in the white house situation room. court papers this week, flynn's attorneys claim andrew mccabe called flynn at short notice and sent two agents including peter stzrok% are transferred today charter trump text to the interview. the agency warned any false statements could be prosecuted. by contrast the legal team set other witnesses were warned of the probe's serious nature. comey said he was directly involved, he believed flynn of statements about context to the vice president conflicted with fbi evidence. >> something i wouldn't have done or gotten away with in a more organized administration, the george w. bush administration or obama administration. >> last year comey and mccabe told investigators the fbi reported no signs of deception from the flynn interview. despite the guilty plea the president's comment about flynn told fox he believed his former aide was pressured. >> convinced he did lie and m

katherine herridge was in the courtroom today. >> reporter: the flint sentencing was postponed at hisut the status reporting 90 days pending cooperation in a case of unrelated to the special counsel, today the judge would not rule out jail time. donald trump's former national security adviser mike flynn arrived with his legal team. on multiple occasions the federal judge sullivan pressed flynn and his lawyers whether he wanted to withdraw his guilty for lying to federal agents on the january 2017 fbi interview. and not formally warning false statements could be prosecuted. according moment came when flynn told the court he knew when the fbi asked about the russian ambassador and the conversation about sanctions. the judge responded i can't hide my disgust, my birthday and for your committal offense. not only do you like to the fbi but to senior officials in the incoming administration. he then asked are you continuing to accept responsibility for false statement? flynn replied i am, your honor. the judge seemed to chastise him for making false into the west wing including lies about t

katherine herridge is here live to donald trump's and start just critic

herridge. hi, katherine. >> thanks, neil. we could get that filing from flynn's attorneys at any time.we get a read-out, we'll bring that back to you. what we anticipate is more of an explanation as to why they believe that he's fully cooperated and is not worthy of any jail time. we may also for the first time get some insight into what kind of hardship the special counsel investigation has presented for michael flynn's family. a number of witnesses in the probe, these are people that are not even targets, have said that they spent upwards of $150,000 and $200,000 in legal fees. that's the case for flynn. the lawyers for paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, left the court here in washington d.c. they had a status hearing with the judge there, amy jackson berman. the federal judge wants more information before she decides whether she can side with the special counsel that manafort violated his plea agreement with the special counsel on a number of fronts, in particular his communications with the white house. manafort's team will see that as a well. the special coun

our chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge, was just inside the courtroom where it was all happening. katherine to the delay point? >> harris, this has to be one of the

our chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge, was just inside the courtroom where it was all happening. katherine, what happened exactly to get us to the delay point? >> harris, this has to be one of the most dramatic hearings that i have ever witnessed. i have been here in washington nearly 20 years. the bottom line for folks at home is that the sentencing of the former national security advisor, michael flynn, has been put off for another 90 days. there will be a status report filed in mid-march. let me just walk you through what has happened in the last couple of hours. the federal judge in this case, emmet sullivan, began the proceeding by stating to the court "i can't think of a day when the court has accepted a guilty plea from a defendant that is not guilty, and that is not going to start today." he then walked the former national security advisor michael flynn through several elements of the case. he gave him multiple opportunities to withdraw the guilty plea, the guilty plea agreement, with the special counsel. he gave flynn multiple opportunities to challenge the circumstances of his fb

. >> bill: catherine herridge back on this story today. katherine, it begins a new week.of the main headlines in the rush transcript released over the weekend the height of the presidential campaign the f.b.i. had four americans linked to donald trump under surveillance. the timing matters here because it three weeks after the f.b.i. closed its investigation into the first time into the opposing candidate hillary clinton. after 10 months of investigation by the f.b.i. and an intelligence gathered through a surveillance warrant for a trump campaign aide lisa page there on the left and now former f.b.i. director james comey have testified to house lawmakers underoath there was no hard evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. the comey transcript reads in part that's the way we treated the russia counter intelligence investigations. we opened them in late july 2016. didn't know whether we had anything. when i was fired as director in may of 2017 i didn't know whether there was anything to it. after the six-hour friday session comey was pressed why some qu