congressman michael patrick flanagan who can help us kind of gauge the situation a little bit here thanks for being with us here on our to international very interesting a bizarre day. i mean in terms of today in the events with the judge and that plan sentencing hearing a special counsel robert mueller had recommended very lenient treatment for general flynn because of his cooperation also the defense of course argued for very lenient sentencing there they were both in agreement why do you think he met with such a hostile reaction from this particular judge. well there the unsealing of the two two indictments of flynn's business partners the day before and i think the judge was badly informed of the timings and and and information and how these all related to each other because later in the day judge sullivan walked back his comments and about the treasonous behavior of being a foreign agent while you're on to say that this simply wasn't true it's the timings are different and so the judge had to can eat his words a little bit later in the day but flynn in the face of a hostile and badly

a former republican congressman michael patrick flanagan talked to us about how the g. twenty in the strait at the current relationship between the russian and us need is . for sure that they have discussions regularly as there are various there are individual i should say foreign ministries and state department permit them ask them and encourage them to do it and i think mr putin's being very straightforward about what was happening in in the black sea and with ukraine and his view of it whether we agree with it or not is helpful to the discussion and i think mr trump was was happy for that i can't imagine he would have been. whenever these gentlemen get a chance to talk frankly it's a good thing in history putin doesn't seem to be isolated at the summit at all but he seems to be doing a good job on behalf of russia taking in taking on the issues of the day i don't i don't really see his isolation happening so if that was the plan it failed these summits are not designed to come to conclusions at least as far as i understand them they are designed to give the world lea

twenty former republican congressman michael patrick flanagan give us his view on the relationship between presidents trump and those in. mr putin doesn't seem to be isolated at the summit at all but he seems to be doing a good job on behalf of russia and taking taking on the issues of the day i don't i don't really see his isolation happening so if that was the plan it failed but these summits are not designed to come to conclusions at least as far as i understand and they're designed to give the world leaders a chance to air confusion and misconception with each other and to make their point decisions are made by pure accuracies and larger organizations later afterward i'm sure that they have discussions regularly as their various. individual i should say foreign ministries and state department permit them ask them and encourage them to do it and i think mr putin's being very straightforward about what was happening in in the black sea and with ukraine and his view of it whether we agree with it or not is helpful to the discussion and i think mr trump was was happy for that i can imagine

we heard from former republican congressman michael patrick flanagan he gave us his views on the g. twenty summit so far and president putin's remarks about the courage straight to dispute with ukraine. these summits are not designed to come to conclusions at least as far as i understand them they are designed to give the world leaders a chance to air confusion and misconception with each other and to make their points mr putin took advantage of the opportunity with mr trump to draw a map and say you know this is this is what happened this is where it was and this is our position and we believe it's true and righteous the very forcefully made his point he didn't didn't get lost in the details he didn't get confused or rattle he he believes what he believes is the truth and stated plainly there's not much more you can ask of any leader than that and i think mr putin is doing a fine job the summit seems to be successful as far. central paris was brought to a standstill on saturday by the so-called yellow vast movement against the soaring fuel prices riot police were out in force using