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Attempt at sentencing that day. it still glows red hot, right, the judge to mike flynn, "im going to be very frank with you, this crime is very serious. as i stated, it involved false statements to fbi agents on the premises of the white house. in the white house. in the west wing. by a high-ranking security officer. thats a very serious offense. you lied to the fbi about three different topics and you made those false statements while you were serving as national security adviser. the president...

Attempt at sentencing that day. it still glows red hot, right, the judge to mike flynn, "im going to be very frank with you, this crime is very serious. as i stated, it involved false statements to fbi agents on the premises of the white house. in the white house. in the west wing. by a high-ranking security officer. thats a very serious offense. you lied to the fbi about three different topics and you made those false statements while you were serving as national security adviser. the president...

Andrew white, evidence that destroyed the credibility of their primary witness, while at the same time putting excruciating pressure on him, flynn. prosecutors countered that they gave. he pled guilty for making a false statement in 2017.sean. >> a couple of things here. sydney powell, she wrote the definitive look on andrew wiseman. how many people were prosecuted over the, watts, 200 plus years? and what about john carey and his contact with the iraniansth? >> judge sullivan, in the flynn case...

It has been delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed. but today the sentencing for trump national security adviser mike flynn just got another delay. i thought they were finally ready to go ahead with this, but apparently they still arent. the judge overseeing flynns case today says that they have a few more days. he now wants written responses from both sides in the flynn case. by the end of this month. he wants responses from both sides about flynns cooperation with ...

Not exonerate the president? >> it does. >> your investigation is not a witch hunt, it? >> it is not a witch hunt. >> your investigation found evidence that russia wanted to help trump win the election, right? >> i think generally, that would -- the charge in our case, absolutely. >> the trump campaign officials built their strategy, their messaging strategy around those stolen documents? >> generally, thats true. >> thats the story of what happened. that is the story of what robert mueller said...

Some make, both sort of mainstream pundits and conservatives as well, the white house that this was not, you know, a sort of showstopper in terms of the performance of mueller himself. obviously he was sort of reticent at times, seemed not to have full command of the report. and as such, if the whole point was a kind of illustrative show, that it didnt do what you wanted it to do. what do you think of that argument? >> i disagree with that. maybe it wasnt a showstopper by the witness, but i thin...

The witness, but i think it was an absolutely breakthrough moment for the judiciary committee and for congress and for public sentiment, which abraham lincoln said was everything. you know, what we did was we took this abstraction of obstruction and we made it real in the case of tampering with particular witnesses like manafort, like stone, like, you know, the flynn case. in my case, i was talking about michael cohen. we talked about the president trying to get people to lie, trying to get peop...

Wrong doing." that process other than the criminal justice system for accusing a president of wrong-doing, is that impeachment? >> im not going to comment on that. >> in your report you also wrote that you did not want to "potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct." for the nonlawyers in the room, what did you mean by "potentially preempt constitutional processes " ? >> im not going to try to explain that. >> thats coming from pay o page one of volume tw...

Chris? >> yes, please. >> its not only ground for launching impeachment inquiry, the reality is that obstruction of justice was the heart of the nixon impeachment and it was the heart of the bill clinton impeachment. congress has established through history and through its own precedents that obstruction of justice is right up there with bribery and treason as a betrayal of the basic oath of office. and thats what trump did. his duty is to take care of the laws are faithfully executed, but he tr...

Unsuccessfully somewhat remarkably in the final analysis to divert and disrupt a federal investigation. >> the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction, and that it completely and totally exonerated him. but that is not what your report said, is it? >> correct. that is not what the report said. >> and what about total exoneration? did you actually totally exonerate the president? >> no. >> now, in fact, your report expressly states that it does not exonera...