but then in the courthouse today they started talking about the logan act. i'm telling you right now, lou -- lou: the unprosecutable logan act. >> that's when everybody laughed, even the judge. there where two different stories here. nothing is making sense and there are still a number of questions regarding why these two fbi agents went to question flynn in the white house without an attorney present. lou: there is one constant in all of this, and that is that it remains a witch hunt. and prosecutors without sense of proportion or any comprehension of the proper conduct on the part of a nonpartisan prosecutor instead of a political and very partizan persecution of an administration, a presidential administration. sara carter, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next with no evidence of collusion, the left wing national media working overtime to tie michael flynn to president trump. here we go. >> the flynn-trump relationship seems to be the beating heart of the mueller probe and the obstruction case. >> this is where you get to ha

the talk again about 18 usc 953, the that's the logan act. ey literally quote "the washington post," and an article, "prior to the defendant's fbi interview members of president-elect's trump transition team" -- i think they might be talking about vice president pence -- "publicly spoken they had spoken to the defendant and he denied speaking to the russian ambassador about the ivsanctions." look, i don't know what your guys' lives is like. i can tell you what my life is like. the number of conversations i have on a daily basis, if you ask me who i talked to yesterday, i will not be able to recall with any sense of certainty. most people live busy lives. i was there, i watched this. this was as busy as a time as anything else and i'm sure there are a lot of pleasantries back and forth. we look forward to working with you. we will work on a lot of issues together, which would seem perfectly appropriate to me. >> if they thought he said something that wasn't accurate, why not circle back with him? he served our country, was a threery star genera

use of the logan act was outrageous. the fact that fbi agents went to question him in the first place was really part of what seems to me. >> sean: come on, unauthorized private diplomacy for a guy that's going to be in power in 20 days. >> senator kerry went recently to visit the foreign affairs ministries of iran themselves in person. so, obviously, somebody coming in and transition would be totally inappropriate to do this. but, remember, did not like general flynn. they did not. >> sean: we just got this in. rudy giuliani, the president's attorney has come out with a statement and he likened the offense in the flynn guilty plea to spitting on the sidewalk with major repercussions for many. he said that there was nothing in the sentencing memo at all to suggest collusion. denounce the mueller team and over zealous media inspired prosecutors and that quote: they are sick puppies, your reaction? >> i think that mayor giuliani had pretty stiff penalties for spitting on the sidewalk in new york during his time there. but t

these are -- the logan act is not a thing. right? it's just tsh its t-- it's the nobody cares. >> those took place before the election. >> it was a debatable point. point being, tom cotton, elected member of the u.s. senate, right, writes a public letter wa numb with a number o other -- 30, 40 some odd members of congress to supreme leader about the iranian deal. claims he should be prosecuted for the act. secretary kerry goes around telling the iranians here are eight ways to invade the -- worked with the europeans, make the trump administration get out of the iran deal. the same people on either side of that, both sides, by the way, republicans and democrats on opposite sides of the issues said the other should be prosecuted for the logan act violation. nobody has ever been prosecuted. it doesn't matter, right. >> it's not just a thing. that's a law, a dead letter that nobody thinks is. >> during the flynn affair, the justice department was considering the logan act as they were investigating him. i agree with you it's very unlikely

it's not come as a said previously, it's on the logan act or talking to the ambassador.ue. >> capri: survive can i go back to what your sink? no more cutting the baby. [laughter] forgive me for being -- using an old saying. >> judge napolitano: with italian slang. >> capri: anyway, back to what you're saying about the difference between law and the media. i agree with you. >> harris: the perception of it. >> capri: the perception of reality. there has been so much fixation on these investigations, we are litigating them and the court of public opinion. and they are then, subsequently, mitigating the value and understanding of the legal process. i think we are doing a disservice to what these investigations are doing. because people like james comey are out there, trying to -- same thing you can say with rudy giuliani, too. >> harris: i give the make it public a lot of credit. they tune in when they think it's kind of at that fire pitch, which is where we are today. this couple things going on. outside this courthouse in washington, d.c., you see the cameras purged for wh

>>i am not sure, the logan act in the robert flynn case. is debates about whether the logan act should be used against flynn. he was the representative of an elected president. the very same people are saying, you should prosecute flynn for that. secretary kerry can talk about evading the effort to get out of the iran deal. these are debatable. the logan act is not a thing. it is the law. but >>nobody cares. before the election. >>debatable point. tom cotton, member of the u.s. senate, writes a public letter about the iran deal. secretary kerry tells the iranians here are eight ways to avoid the trump administration. the same people on either side of that, republicans and democrats, said the other should be prosecuted. nobody has ever been prosecuted. it doesn't matter. that is not just discretion. that is a dead letter. >>during the flynn effect, the justice department did consider the logan act. i agree with you it is unlikely they will prosecute under it. that was the basis of their prosecution. >>let's keep going. this gentleman has bee

maybe the logan act, and the judge left after that. then you look at comey's testimony and he says it, the reason we want to question flynn was because of vice president mike pence said a statement that we knew not to be true. instead, they sent to agents. there is no attorney for flynn, and he's out there talking to them at the request of mccabe and comey keeps getting caught in lie after lie or he keeps changing his testimony. >> judge jeanine: the amazing part is when the judge seems to be pushing flynn, do you want to withdraw your plea, everything we had seen up to this point, he was game for that. but now, here is my concern. if he has already cooperated to the point where the government says we want no incarceration, why do we need him to work for the next 90 days on the case of his partners, who were charged with the foreign agents act? >> it has absolute nothing to do with trump collusion. this is the judge who said, he was deeply concerned about the fbi interview with michael flynn they encouraged him not to get a lawyer. the

i do want to say in mueller's defense, there is a mention of the logan act but mueller does not say in any way that flynn violated it -- >> laura: yeah. come on. to speak about the other thing to keep in mind is that mueller does say -- not what it is -- but he does say that flynn provided important information about connections between the trump campaign and the russian government, or attempts to make connections. all i'm saying is -- you're right, he doesn't say flynn did that, but he did say that flynn provided information. again, if there is nothing there, that may be one reason mueller is not talking about it, or it may be that mueller is a professional and it's not appropriate to release that information. >> laura: the left tonight is going crazy. they are like, okay, downey jr., they are -- it is speculation overdrive tonight. the collusion is all in the reduction. collusion, delusion, all in the redaction. but again, we go to what victor davis hanson said, we have proven instances of blatant lying to cover up how this whole thing started in the first place. lying to federal jud

they were going to create their own -- you know, the breaking of the logan act, create their own foreign policy, cut their own deals places. israeli settlements were mentioned in the document released tonight. and i think we might have to separate michael cohen from flynn in the sense that flynn and cohen don't have a lot of interaction. but flynn and jared kushner had a ton of it, and it's not just donald trump that should be very worried tonight. it's a significant evening. but i think the pressure on jared kushner must be immense right now. >> let's talk about that separate criminal investigation. it says, flynn is also helping with a separate criminal investigation. that's to you, frank. any idea what that could be about? and the rest of it's redacted. you saw it. it's just like -- >> yeah, no. i mean i don't know what that is, but it sure is one of the most tantalizing details. i think it's investigations plural, right? >> it says the defendant has provided substantial assistance in a criminal investigation. >> well, doug mentions jared kushner. i don't know if that's what it's abou

based on our reporting some of the main questions that came out of that issue wasn't the logan act. no one inside the fbi or the department of justice was seriously going to prosecute michael flynn for the logan ac. no one's been prosecuted since 1852. the issue was why he was lying to fbi agents based on the transcripts that were reported. when someone's sitting in front of you lying about something that you know to be true because you have corroborating evidence to it goes back to why. why was eliing? was there some kind cuff quid pro quo going on vis-a-vis the trump campaignable in russiaia. >> it also says several senior nebraska of the transition team publicly repeated false information about communications between him and the russian ambassador regarding sanctions. that sentence is followed by three and a half lines of redacted information. the white house sales flynn was fired for lying about his conversation to pen with sergey kislyak. do you think pence was really in the dark herele? >> it seems to me -- what i first thought of i thought was pence and it seems mueller has so

to say they are prosecuting under the logan act because it is on prosecutable. and secondly, their conduct with general flynn, this poor man has been -- i mean, the judge basically tried to got this man today. instead of defend him. as a defendant in front of the awesome power of federal prosecutors. i mean it is outrageous! >> that is exactly right, lou. and it is precisely why the judge missed a golden opportunity to at least inquire of the government about its conduct. the missing text messages, failure to produce the original three o2 in the notes. failure to doevidentiary disclosures. this was the most bizarre judicial proceedings . the judgment after the wrong people. lou: he went -- he became part of the mueller witchhunt. >> unbelievable! lou: and it seems to me, that the president who has been calling this a witchhunt from the outset, we can call it lots of things. but what it isn't, is a responsible, nonpartisan investigation and prosecution. it can only have one purpose. and that is to attack the administration.it is a group of radical dimms assembled

only because we'll only had two people prosecuted on the logan act. john kerry all of august and september met with the iranian foreign ambassador in paris and he admitted they were discussing the iran deal which is against the president and the administration. nobody called that a logan violation or at least seriously did. we have the swamp in washington, everybody is dealing with foreign agents, they're representative governments. christopher steele was a foreign british subject and he was supplying data to the hillary clinton campaign for money. and he was seeding it throughout the government. nobody talked about the agents there. and then more importantly, in that document, there's worry that flynn was working in a way that was unethical with the turkish government or maybe with the russian government. but it had no effect because when donald trump came in, when you look at russian sanctions, the oil policy of the us, increasing production, arming ukraine, attacking russians in syria or whether it was ending the obama romance with turkey we were mu

the russians. i don't know.but he could conceivably have lied out of fear of a logan act prosecution. go, what about the mueller probe?what are your thoughts on where we are and what it looks like in the new year with a new congress? >> we are where we were before. there is -- robert mueller was put in place only because it was necessary to have someone to have an independent counsel to investigate the question of whether there was a criminal relationship between the trump campaign and the russians. there has been no showing of any such connection. people have been indicted for problems that had nothing to do with the russians. michael cohen has been, paul manafort has been, but nobody makes that connection. and that is where we started. maria: we will see what comes out of it. it has now been two years. >> right. maria: judge, great to see. >> thank you. spoon always fantastic. a federal judge has ruled obama care unconstitutional. how the tax reform law signed last year led to the judge's last year led to the judge's hi.i just wanted to tell you that chevy won a j.d.power dependabili

and they said "maybe, it was a violation of the logan act." and the judge says "nobody has been prosecuted for filing the logan act." that brings it back to what exactly general flynn did that was wrong, other than live to the fbi, which is, in fact, a crime. harris, i am having a very difficult time seeing that that sequence does political damage to the president of the united states. i don't think it exonerates general flynn for his life to the fbi, but it looks like this thing is sort of melting down to something very small and specific that the judge is trying to focus on. >> harris: i want to read just a little bit from our crew again. we just had catherine herridge on, we have a wide dearth, if you will, of reporters there now. here's something coming up. judge sullivan said he still had further questions regarding the circumstances of the fbi questioning that were raised in the defense's sentencing memo, which he hopes will be answered before sentencing from both sides. so, this is partially why all parties have agreed now to a status re

it's either debatable, provide the logan act, he was writing a letter. it is not a thing, the law but nobody cares. tom cotton, the u.s. senate, the public letter with a number, 50, 40 some odd numbers. be around deal. the obama deal, the deal with the iranians. the europeans, the iran deal, the same people inside of that, both by the way, said the other prosecuted the open act. nobody did because it doesn't matter. it's not a thing. that's not just discussion, that's a lot of things that nobody thinks -- >> justice department really was considering the logan act. as they were investing it again. i agree that it's unlikely they will ring a prosecution under it. that was the basis of their investigation. >> let's get going. let's take two. >> the panel on this question in terms of government secrets or privation about government activities which are unfavorably reflective of the government. i'm so old, i can remember back to the church commission and the bike commission. the cia thought this was going to be the end of the world, the worst possible thing an

violating the logan act.he logan act is an archaic law that was passed, get this, in 99 and it was only responsible for two indictments in the 1800s. foreign relations act fara which is called was used only seven times since it became law in 1966. it was all in that memo we had last night. this is how desperate and how pathetic robert mueller is remember lieutenant general flynn was first a victim of a crime himself because they knew nothing about general flynn except that they illegally surveilled him. illegally unmasked him. they put aside the -- what we now call you are supposed to do mitigating. supposed to literally once you american is on the line you are not supposed to identify them. raw intelligence on general flynn was leaked. that illegally leaked information was then used against him by team mueller. lieu ten grant general michael flynn pled guilty to a process crime. that's true. can't get him on any underlying crimes about collusion with russia and lying to mueller's investigators neither comey

again, the logan act has never been successfully prosecuted so it's unlikely that you would ever get a case but that is what alarmed people at the justice department. that's what sally yates was most concerned about when she talked about a potential logan act matter even more than the context with kislyak. >> the russian sanctions piece is pretty important. the whole idea of the logan act is to prevent a private foreign policy and you have obama sanctioning, as a sitting president, russia and dealings, secret dealings by the trump campaign to lift those sanctions with the ambassador. that has to stop. >> i agree, but we don't know what exactly was in the conversation. we know from the plea there were actual phone calls made by trump transition members to u.n. ambassadors trying to get -- >> that's why i highlight individuals within the campaign and the transition team. we know who does know what happened in that phone call, mueller and his team, because that's what mike flynn has been doing. one other aspect that is relevant to mueller and i want to know why it's impressive to you bot

the government lawyer said it might be the violation of the logan act to which the judge seemed to laugh suggesting no one had ever been charged with that law criminalizing unauthorized contact with u.s. officials with the foreign government. president trump tweeted good luck and slammed the treatment by the fbi. >> the fbi that we know had a clear political bias, we've seen that time and time again. >> legal experts say three month delay may help all sides. >> there was a pause today, the judge wanted to be sure the defendant was pleading guilty because in fact he was guilty. >> judge sullivan thought to clarify some of his actions at no point where his questions meant to suggest flynn committed treason, the special counsel lawyer said they have no reason to believe he committed treason. >> bret: new transcripts from the former fbi director for monday's testimony, jim comey. >> there are a lot of nuggets, house republicans pressed call me comey on why he didn't release the memos -- once you got that confirmed, you didn't believe that it was appropriate to tell the president of the unite

>> it is a violation of the logan act.one has ever been prosecuted for a violation of the logan act but he did prior to taking office and that started the inquiry in the first place. why he lied is the big mystery. there was no reason to lie because he wasn't facing prosecution anyway but was prosecuted for lying to the fbi and that set forth the chain of eventss resulting in donald trump asking fbi director james comey to go late on general flynn, a charge donald trump has denied and that started the chain of events which has led us to where we are today with the pending indictments against roger stone and more trouble for manafort. rob: you look at roger stone, he is going to plead the fifth the. a lot of people think that doesn't look good. never looked good to me when you won't talk. what do you think? >> it is okay to plead the fifth. i come from the criminal defense background and that is a fairly routine thing for people to do especially in the initial stages, everyone takes the fifth. the idea is they don't want to

by that time the logan family, not logan himself, he was long since dead, were on the other side of franklin and pennsylvania politics. the oven and was andrew hamilton. he's mentioned a little bit more but he was this kind of foulmouthed heavy drinking, very aggressive trial lawyer is probably the finest leather in a comment litanies -- finest lawyer in the colonies. a case that established freedom of the press, landmark case, still refer to in media law in america. he was the attorney in that case. he was also speak of the house of representatives in pennsylvania. he and franklin became very close. he wasn't really a of the people. he was a real estate speculator, a successful machine politician but he had franklin became very close. when hampton died, franklin had a problem. he had to find other patrons. you couldn't survive in 18th century without patrons and friends. it would be that kind of a world. >> now, franklin comes across as often pretty naÏve, which is forgiving and a young man. but can you cite a few examples of his naÏvetÉ? i always have a mental picture of santa claus and fr

no one has ever been convicted under the logan act, but this was the previous administration, certainly an attempt to undermine what the policy officials in the last administration were doing. >> yeah, forcing everyone to remember once again what the logan act is, because everyone had to dig up the legal dictionaries once again. matt, this is one of the things that the president is watching. the president, that is rattling the president. with all that cnn is reporting, that the president is worried about the possibility of being impeached by the house. do you see that this concern, this possibility that he's worried about, do you see that changing the way that he operates, though, whenever flynn is sentenced or whenever there's a move when it comes to the manafort trial, or whenever mueller puts out his report? >> i don't anticipate president trump really changing. i mean, he's not shown much evidence of doing so. but i think it's important to just look at the walls sort of closing in, and all different directions. you have the flynn, manafort today, ms. butina, michael cohen, and on mu

they were looking into the logan act.t the blackmail, submit it doesn't appear to her knowledge in. there is a lot that has not been -- a lot of people have not been held accountable and their role is letting up this narrative which is turning out to not have this. we don't have evidence of mike flynn being a traitor. that is important. >> bret: thank you very much. when we come back, a tribute to the 41st president with a little humor. ♪ oh good, you're awake! finally. you're still here? come on, denise. we're voya! we stay with you to and through retirement... with solutions to help provide income throughout. i get that voya is with me through retirement, i'm just surprised it means in my kitchen. oh. so, that means no breakfast? i said there might be breakfast. i was really looking forward to breakfast. i know... voya. helping you to and through retirement. >> bret: finally tonight, you are looking live in houston, texas, at st. martin's episcopal church. the next stop for the 41st president of the united states before

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truth of the matter is no one seriously thought that michael flynn was going to be prosecuted under the loganing to a former ambassador as far as his responsibility on the transition because no one's been prosecuted since 1852 for this very obscure law. the question is why did he sit across from fbi agents and lie to them? having conducted those interviews and you're talking to someone and you nope whknow wha they're saying to be false, it puts you back on your heels and you wonder why is this person lying to me? robert mueller coming to the defense of these eights sagents weren't mistreated, you should have known better, this is on you. >> we see the notes from peter strzok after that interview. you have done these interviews, you've taken notes following interviews. does everything look like it was done by the book? >> so there are a lot of redactions in there. we only know what we know looking at this. this is important for viewers to understand. this 302, a testimonial document an fbi agent does, conducts an interview and writes up a report, this is an fbi agent sitting down with the othe

van grack, the facts could potentially support a violation of the logan act, which i think is perhaps what the court is referring to. the judge, is that the act that no one has ever been prosecuted under? mr. van grack, that's right. which is why i want to be clear in terms of the government's consideration of potential charges against general flynn. that is not one of the charges the government was considering. again, the logan act is about private citizens conducting foreign policy negotiations that undermine the sitting government of the united states. here's prosecutors saying they were not considering those kinds of charges against flynn. the judge says, okay, fair enough. good. that's the answer i wanted. then the judge continues. were there other charges that could have been brought against mr. flynn, other than fara violations or false statements? i'm not minimizing either one of those. van grack says, the government's statement of offense represents a representation of the unlawful activity that the government believes the defendant committed in terms of beyond a reasonable d

. >> and, john, there is a reference to the logan act in what the special prosecutor filed tonight. that law that has never actually been brought to a trial and tested, but a very old law that says you cannot conduct foreign policy when you are not a part of the government, which he was not yet. it was during the transition. >> right. >> that they were investigating. but, but the -- ultimately here, all he was facing, all he was pleading guilty to was one count of lying to the fbi, for which his maximum sentence for that one count was going to be six months. and so in the -- in what they agreed to charge him with, there was already a kind of compromise made because in these documents they say he lied several times to several different members of the federal government. >> right. there were other equities here that people have discussed and speculated about related to his son and whether or not there may have been some kind of deal where he was trying to do this as much to protect his son from other potential vulnerabilities that he has. we don't know about that right now. but, look,

the prosecution said it could have bent logan act. ne as ever been prosecuted on the logan act. he said i have concerns, i keep asking you if you want to withdraw the plea, and you keep say nothing you are resisting to knee there was displeasure from both sides and they pushed it down the road at flynn's request. liz: let's get to the james comey transcript from the second dine tap hill. catherine: we are still going through the transcript but on flynn there is an interesting exchange with congressman jim jordan and mark meadows. both house republicans. they say to comey, if you confirmed you thought flynn had lied to the vice president and other people about his contacts with russia. that on its face is a national security risk. why didn't you tell the president you thought someone close to him may pose a national security threat. and director comey said i chose not to because we had an ongoing criminal investigation and counter-intelligence investigation. the reason that matters is the fbi directors job is not just to build evidence

after a long pause, it might be a violation of the logan act. and the judge seemed to laugh. president trump tweeted good luck to flynn before the sentencing. >> he was ambushed, that fbi we know had clear political bias. we've seen it time again. reporter: legal expert say, the 3 mop delay may help all sides. >> there was a pause. judge wanted to be sure that he was pleading guilty because he was the in fact guilty. reporter: telling court, at no point were his questions men to suggestion that plai that -- fln committed treason. kennedy: no way to tell when mueller will wrap up the investigation. that is not stopping democrats from launching as membership 85 investigations. to trouble trudge. -- trump administration, oversight committee chair cummings said he will get ball rolling the minute that democrats takeover the house on january three. what happened to promise to legislate, instead of investigate? ned ryan is joining me, and fox news political analyst jehmu green. >> hello. jehmu with you, are house democrats going to legislate or investigate? >> they will to do both,

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same person who is the common theme every time a russian ambassador is mentioned, and the idea of the logan act and the sanctions against russia and telling vladimir putin not to retaliate, what does he know? and the notion that mueller operates and every prosecutor does operate better when people do not know what is coming next. the first domino to fall is the person that makes everybody nervous and says i better go first. the first to squeal may get the best deal. and the first person to squeal in the issue has no jail time, and compare and contrast to michael cohen. you think about the case, especially the anxiety is building more, and you have the anxiety building about who might be next and people are raising their hands and trying to perhaps secure the deal, because the speculative pardon no longer seems appealing. >> and laura sort of touched on it, the shear amount of unrelated criminality going on in the trump campaign. we gloss over it in the documents with michael flynn, and he was working for turkey while serving as trump's campaign adviser, and paul manafort, campaign chairman

the logan airport is near zero. that is a new development. satellite shows a system offshore and it will mix things up later today. the main disturbance is at least 8:00 or 9:00 or 10:00 with fog. san jose is 48 and napa 46 degree. here is the plan for this morning with areas of dense fog and in the afternoon, upper level clouds. the clouds could produce a few showers into the evening. let's check in with sal to update the roadways. i guess you can take a view? >> they are all fogged in. most are wide pick you can tell there is something down there. this is that you look at the flow of traffic on the computer at the ultima pass. livermore, no crashes there. there is 880 looking better. it is a tough sell for our cameras. westbound bay bridge is a lot -- slight delay before you make it to the span. >>> firefighters are investigating the overnight house fire in east bay. they got the call this morning. they arrived to find the fire in the kitchen they believe it was started by someone who was cooking. they think the house will be a total loss. t

after a long pause the government lawyers said it might be a violation of the logan act to which themed to laugh suggesting no one had ever been charged with that law criminalizing unauthorized contact by us officials with foreign governments, donald trump tweeted, his aides slammed is treatment by the fbi. >> we know they had clear political bias, we've seen that time and again. >> legal expert say a 3-month delay help all sides. >> there was simply a part today. the judge wanted to be sure the defendant was pleading guilty because he was guilty. >> judge sullivan authorized some of his actions telling the course and no point where his questions meant to suggest flynn committed treason. the special counsel lawyer said they had no reason to believe flynn was guilty of treasonous acts. >> donald trump's foundation is dissolving a lawsuit from the new york attorney general alleging illegal conduct and, quote, unlawful political coordination. trump organization attorney says the foundation was seeking to dissolve its remaining assets to charitable causes since donald trump's victory in

possible collusion with a foreign power this is actual collusion with a foreign power in violation of the logan act which means that you can't mess around with a foreign policy of a sitting administration that's exactly what they were doing you don't hear much about that perhaps it was about israel and russia. about these conversations with f.b.i. agents and finally have to come clean so that's what he's being sentenced for here today but because he's. given so much cooperation to robert mueller the special counsel the recommendation is that he serve minimal jail time of any jail time at all thank you very much indeed you have a chance in reporting that. well than forty million voters in the democratic republic of congo go to the polls on sunday using electronic voting machines for the first time electoral commission says the devices will cut costs and speed up the voting and counting process but opposition civil society groups and some averred observers fear the machines are not practical in a huge country with limited transport and electricity and they could be used to rig an election catheri

not contacts between the designated national security advisor and the russian ambassador violated the logan act which is to say you can't be engaging in foreign policy. given the very limited use of that statute in the two century history, i highly doubt it. the question was why was mike flynn lying about this one? it's perfectly acceptable for him to be reaching out during the transition to want to keep lines of communication open. so still we don't have a real explanation. mike flynn absolutely knew you cannot lie to the fbi. before that interview he was speaking to the deputy director of the fbi. we want to talk to you about your contacts with this russian individual. it's sort of baffling. if there is something he's covering up for. one thing is there. and the why question. other people are involved in the communication with the russian a.m. pass is a door. she amended her statement to the fbi about this after mike flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the agents. >> clint, it must be a feeling, a singular feeling. you're the only one on the panel who has done this. represented the fbi and s