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Public over the next two weeks. rhett bring in ken dlan kran. ken, good to have you. tell us what thing is as soon as part of this flynn document had been released first in december. youll remember there was great fanfare about it and then it landed and at that time there was great anticipation about and you read it, it just another example of how you there were efforts to influence the testimony of a key witness in the mueller investigation. why was no one charged with an obstruction of justice...

They never speak. >> that is true. >> when you never speak and you speak sometimes, it carries a lot of weight. the presidents team that constantly says its a hoax and the 12 angry democrats, theyre going to wave this around and credit the mueller team with getting something correct thats to the benefit of the president of the united states who constantly attacks them, even though they are public servants. they will be proving by waving this around that they actually credit the kinds of things t...

Latest statement -- theyre not saying, we have absolute confidence in the story. they are saying that -- >> they will re-report the story. >> i dont want to paraphrase it. these things matter. we a you say they added stay tuned. >> its incredibly unusual for a big news outlet to be in this situation. to be out there on a limb with a story nobody else could match for almost 24 hours. now to have that story knocked down not by a trump white house spokesperson who has -- >> i dont know in knocked d...

Document that came in with respect to michael cohens guilt plea in which they said they made it clear the deal in moscow concluded before the iowa caucuses. they did not take the step of saying what the southern district prosecutor said, which was he did at that time the direction of the president, which is why then months later you see the buzzfeed article say something that clearly sounds like the mueller team should have known, it was under the direction of the president. they didnt bother to...

Memo on cohen, this is getting white house attention too, cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contact with persons connected to the white house during the 2017-18 time. go. im guessing they are going over in their minds and conversations and email and text about what those contacts could have been. >> i would guess the same thing and dont have any more details than that but it does seem clear mueller and his prosecutors are drying connections and getting closer in some ...

Charged, that may not be on the main point, or it may be related. theres so much we dont know. what was so striking about the flynn documents, the document talks about what he knows in the trump orbit who had contact with russian officials, so that would be the main thrust of the investigation. what i think is interesting apart from the legal maneuverings, theres a back and forth, mueller is aware of the political environment in which he is operating and will ultimately operate when theres a rep...

Happening tomorrow is the comey behind closed doors on capitol hill. the former f.b.i. director. and the sentencing deadline for michael cohen. and that is the u.s. -- attorneys in the southern districts of new york have to deliver their filings to the judge in the southern district by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. a lot of convergence. we could get information. the frustrating thing for covering this and looking at the flynn document are all the redactions and what we dont know. >> sandra: there is more ...

I think this flynn document is another example of how theres threads to pull on. the question about why mike flynn lied and what did donald trump know about that out reach and when was he informed about it. theres got to be a reason for those redactions. >> daniel, do you agree with that assessment from ken? >> i do. i think theres a lot of smoke around roger stone. i think we have seen e-mails now between stone and jerome corsi. we have heard about many witnesses being called into the grand jur...

Clinton never knew. barack obama did not know his father either and viewed in 41 someone who he admired and who was a huge source of consolation to him. and its interesting that president obama was one of the last people to visit president bush before he died. >> the last public visit was from james baker his best friend and president obama. and that friendship -- i believe that the 43 and michelle have, they have -- 41st president to extend that generosity to bill clinton. >> weve been watching...

Countrys business interest above the united states. he was the person running the national security apparatus for a brief time. >> youre absolutely right. look at the way robert mueller has structured his attack using the flynn document. michael flynn the intelligence agency. the gulf states all impacted his decisions before the election. as we know, a lot of this investigation really started with mike flynn talking to the russians three to five times before the election in relation to something...