if you take a look at the note they turned over to mike flynn's attorney, it appears the goal here isine the prosecution that essentially these notes should have been turned over or earlier. the issue is if you look at this note, it is not clear what it is about. you see that the fbi at the time writes some notes about sowhat e goals is here is to get flynn alive and prosecute him. that's what flynn's attorney are pointing to. see, we told you the justice department that the fbi at the time was trying to entrap flynn. the bottom line here is this. mike flynn and even if the fbi lied to him or tried to trap him, all he had to do is tell the truth. he lied at the time. he lied to the fbi and twice by the way pleaded guilty before two separate judges in this case. one of the questions that is burning here whether the justice department is going to continue to support this prosecution or whether they're going to drop the charges. it is not clear what the judge in i c this case is going to do. what is the justice department going to do? and the bottom line is the president who has the powe

mike flynn was first fired because when he was asked to tell the vice president and the truth about hisntact with the russians, flynn lied. he had a choice to make, and he chose to live. when it comes to the legal case, the child of the totality of the discussion,we n. from my reading of the question that was handwritten in, there were questions about how they were conducting their investigation. that doesn't mean it was a bad investigation. this agent asked question as part of that process. again, when michael flynn, who is a highly trained intelligence military officer, he is not stupid, he is not easily taken for a stupid person. when the fbi required and by law to tell the truth, he did not do so. that was his choice. he pled guilty because of it. that, in my mind, is the end of the story, harris. >> harris: melissa? >> melissa: yeah, i think that if i read a note in fbi handwriting saying, "it is our goal to get him to lie or to get him fired?" say that was written about marie harf and they were going to her house. i wouldn't like it. i wouldn't stand for it. i would have something

on top of all that they go after mike flynn after the agent said he was fine and hadn't done anything they go after a three star general, that's how determined they were to get this president. chris wray has been there for two and half years and he won't give us any information, either. only bill barr and sidney powell pushing was the reason we were able to get this information. >> martha: so what happens now is a question? we seen all of these individuals go through this process and there really hasn't been any accountability. will that happen now? >> we keep talking about it and will try to persuade jerry nadler and the oversight committee to actually have hearings, bringing in michael horowitz. we talk about the truth and the facts that are starting to come out and then we wait frankly for john durham's investigation to be completed and see what happens. i hope to prosecute someone. i still think jim comey is the big problem here, he was the guy in charge, the guy with the arrogant attitude and he was the guy that sent these agents over to interview him. we are going to try to trap

when you have the fbi that for 3 years has withheld written notes and 300 tos for the fbi in the mike flynn prosecution which meant he pled guilty without all the facts, without understanding the tactic the fbi was engaging in, without understanding the fbi's motivations and that is so contrary to our fundamental precepts and notions of justice and fair justice and blind justice that it shocks. rob: is one of michael flynn's attorneys on hannity. >> devastating evidence of the length they were willing to go to to disregard all protocols, all prior, standard practice because they were determined to take him out. >> a lot of big familiar names are going to get wrapped up in this. what happens to them if this turns out to be true in this is as big as it looks right now? >> great question. people need to be investigated. we have to see if crimes were committed. obviously a violation of policy is not a crime, violation of the constitution may very well be, lying to the court is certainly a criminal offense and that needs to be investigated but mostly we need some sunlight and disinfectant. i rea

. ♪ >> laura: explosive new court documents suggest former national security advisor mike flynn was set he set up by? jim comey. handwritten notes unveiled that the fbi discussed using the 2017 interview with lynn to "get him vito live so we can prosecute hm or get him fired." in other words, to entrap them and ruin his career and later on, get at trump for the handwritten note ends with this intriguing little snippet. "if we are seen as playing games, the white house will be furious." joining now is congress when devin nunes, and john davis, author for "the federalist." you've been digging into this and digging into it, but this has to be one of the more egregious abuses of power, given how we know how this thing went down now. your thoughts? >> given general flynn is going to have a ivcivil rights case and it's going to cost the government millions of dollars. secondly, hopefully there's going to be prosecutions for this matter. and the judge really has an opportunity here to step in and sanction these lawyers. and with all that said, laura, we brought you this, the house republicans

our goal is to determine if mike flynn is going to tell the truth about his relationship with the russians we're seen at playing games, the white house will be furious, it said at one point. we have to protect our institution for not playing games. but i take your point. to see that note is disturbing. i'll say at the same time i've talked to former prosecutors about what they make of this and they say, yeah, that's a dumb thing to say in a note but that oftentimes agents will say, look, we know that this guy violated the law. we have the evidence. so if we get him to tell the truth, he admits to it. it's a confession. if we get him to lie, then we can charge him with lying about it. so you're right. that's the way they often think about these interviews. >> but big picture, pete, and that's gotten lost here, it appears michael flynn did do something wrong, correct? it doesn't cover up whether he did something wrong. the question is, how did the government decide to surface that wrongful -- surface that information to prove he did something wrong? >> well, don't take my word for it. take m

. >> i will say before you answer, ask your question, waiting for the mike flynn to get you want to make sure -- there it is. >> this question is coming from a mentor of mine. he was wondering, maybe so off-topic but how was the squirrel hunting in the back 40? >> he wanted to reiterate he has 40 acres in baldwin. it's not going well. so yes. the question was how was the squirrel hunting. i think it's two things. simple, i don't have, i can't do the magic silver bullet but number one, informed. just tap into this whole river of information because there's so many things going on today. it's very hard to keep track. even someone who this is why do for living i can't keep track of everything going on but awesome tools and community resources that can help you understand what's happening out there. the thing is there's a lot happening that's impacting wildlife that's impacting the space and public lands. and very seriously that the general public almost never hears about. and so all we can do is pick and try to capture those most important issues and jump on them when we can. number one is

i want to ask you about mike flynn because donald trump is tweeting about him anew. and at this point why doesn't he just pardon him already? it's clear that's what donald trump wants to do. >> well, i think that -- i was in the department of justice for over 20 years and i think the way i look at this is from the parochial point of view of what i think the department is doing which i think the department is trying to soften the blow and make it politically easier for the president to pardon general flynn. the disclosure of documents from a purported neutral team that is reviewing the flynn case, it seems kind of laughable to me. as far as i can tell, what was disclosed was really similar to what's already been disclosed. there's nothing new there, so i wouldn't be surprised if there's a pardon and it will be the first case in which there's a pardon where the person being pardoned is really somebody who was in bed with the president. in other words, this is one -- we've seen pardons which i think were fairly outrageous. i've seen that not just from this president but

the organization and i prepared policy papers and breathes and eventually i got to know general mike flynnandled the team and became a part of the official once there were two candidates left hillary clinton and donald trump i became a part of the official team and was offered the job of the deputy assistant for strategy which i started at 12:01 january 20, 2017. >> host: and he lasted how long? why just seven months? >> guest: you'd have to ask steve. i was on vacation in new england in the middle of august when a friend texted me and said have you seen the news and i said no i try not to be plugged in. i went to an area i could check the internet and i saw that he had resigned out of the blue. he was my immediate boss. i was the deputy assistant and without telling me, in the two months prior it had become clear that security advisor wasn't a fan of mine. i wasn't on the national security council but i was always present for the meetings regarding isis, china, russia and i was being left off so i knew i was being boxed out and then my top cover re-signed and i had a tough decision. with

i will say, before you ask your question, we are waiting for the mike flynn to get it to you, we want to make sure -- there it is. >> this question is coming from a mentor of mine. he was wondering if maybe a little off-topic but how was the squirrel hunting on your back 40? >> he wanted to reiterate he is 40 acres in baldwin if it's not going well. >> awesome. so yes. the question was how was the squirrel hunting on the back 40. part of what i do is i host a show for a media company, and we have a show right now called back 40 which is actually exploring the flipside of this going. this project i just spent the last three years on has all been about public land conservation. this new project i'm working on is about private land conservation. so we decided to dive into that world by purchasing a small property and documenting both what you can do on a property like that to improve it for wildlife of all sorts while also trying to balance that with recreational uses like hunting. one of the challenges of announcing that kind of thing is trying to do all sorts of different activities. o

prepared policy papers and brace for his debates and eventually became-- i got to know general mike flynnho headed his transition team and then i became part of the official once there were only two candidates left, hillary clinton and donald trump i became part of the official transition team and finally was offered the job of deputy assistant to the president for strategy, which i started at 12:01 a.m. january 20, 2017c when you have lasted how long? >> seven months. host: by only seven months? guest: you'd have to ask a steve bannon that. i was on vocation-- vacation where it friend texted me and said have you seen the news. no, i was cut off from the world and i like not to be plugged in and i went to an area where i could check the internet and i sort of see steve bannon had resigned out of the blue. he was my immediate boss and there was only one layer between me and the president. steve was chief strategist and without telling me steve said i'm leaving. in about two months prior to that, it had become clear to me that the new national security advisor hr mcmaster was not a fan of m

steele told the justice department he was desperate to stop trump and now we learn they go after mike flynnant to know why didn't bob mueller tell us this in remember when bob mueller was named special counsel, the greatest guy to come to washington, the most honest guy since george washington. why didn't he tell us this and more importantly where is christopher wray, why didn't we learn any of this from him? thank goodness from sidney powell and william barr, we would have never gotten the information. brian: true, let me ask you when you look at underlying documents that sidney powell requested that attorney general sessions didn't that barr, sessions, i don't know what he was doing, do you wonder, did mueller have the documents and he discovered that strzok was having an affair with page and said these guys got to go because of texts and others documents when they are actually working? >> jim: i have no idea. bob mueller 19 lawyers, 2 years to do this and we are just now learning this. thank bill barr and sidney powell pushing for this or we wouldn't get this information. again, i come b

but what we have been hearing about is the president fired michael flynn, so what's up with that? vice president mikeence was asked to do you believe that flynn should have been fired. and he said, i know what general flynn told me, and i am more inclined to believe that it was unintentional more than ever before. if so i think that they will revisit where they were getting their information about him allegedly lying to the vice president about his contact to the russian ambassador. >> jesse: greg gutfeld? >> greg: yes. i love that these guys got busted by their own notes. in an effort to frame general flynn. they actually frame to themselves and exonerated flynn by taking notes. i do think that trump, i don't know if it is possible, but could he name flynn head of the fbi? it's so amazing that you can incriminate somebody with your notes, that i thought that i would present my notes from today's "the five" meeting. here it is. jesse brags about murder committed in 1982. dana leaves methamphetamines by the coffee maker, and juan males in his ballot to vote for trump. >> jesse: i still have my calenda

mike pompeo, thank you for your time. new documents justin sealed tonight could be game changers in the michael flynn case. the former chairman of the house oversight committee and fox news contributor has a lot to say live next. .. you doing okay? yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. well, xfinity makes moving super easy. i can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. wow, that is easy. almost as easy as having those guys help you move. we are those guys. that's you? the truck adds 10 pounds. in the arms. -okay... transfer your service online in a few easy steps. now that's simple, easy, awesome. transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. visit xfinity.com/moving today. >> shannon: new developments tonight in the case of >> new development in the case of general michael flynn, newly unsealed internal documents show fbi officials discussing their motivations and plans are interviewing the the national security adviser the white house in january of 2017. trace gallagher is on the case. good evening. >> the fbi interview of michael flynn took place at the w

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the trump organization and i prepared policy be briefs for his debate and i got to know general mike flynn who had his transition team and became part of the -- once they're only two candidates left i became part of the official presidential transition team and finally was offered the job from deputy assistant to the president for strategy which i stood at 12:0 one on january 20th. >> us and how long? >> august. >> host: you ask 7 months? >> you have to ask obama that. i was on vacation in new england in the middle of the forest were a friend texted me and said have you seen the news? now? i'm cut off from the world i would like not to be plugged in and went to an area where i could check the internet and i saw that steve bannon had re-signed out of the blue. he was my immediate boss, there is only one leg between me and the president, steve was chief strategist and without telling me, steve said i'm leaving. in the two months prior to that it had become clear to me the new national security adviser hr mcmaster was not a fan of mine. he was not on the national security council but i was al