i have with me former u.s. attorney greg brower and political analyst gloria borger. i want to know what each of you are watching for in today s filing. all of that that jessica is talking about. i think the major question wool g e we ll get an answer to is did flynn help mueller get to the bottom of the question of the improper communications between flynn, if they were improper, and proper communications between flynn and the russian ambassador and also trying to influence a vote in the united nations on israeli settlement before of course they took office. and did he lie to the feds about what he said and what he did? i mean, don t forget, you had an acting attorney general running to the white house counsel with
her hair on fire trying to tell him that mr. flynn, general flynn, could be subject to blackmail. and it took 18 days for the white house to get rid of flynn saying that he had lied to the vice president about actually what he had done. so some of these questions i think are going to be answered in this memo and we ll be able to see how much cooperation he gave. i think sentencing was scheduled four times and pulled back every time. that showing you they thought they could get some more out of him. greg, that being said, what are you watching for? that was an ex-lent summary by jessica. there s clearly a lot there. flynn s kwop raecooperation has ongoing for some time now, more than a year. so given the fact that he was at the center appears to have been at the center of whatever communications the trump
settlement questions. so, yes, it does bring more people into this sort of question about was he getting advice from the president on what he should do vis-a-vis sanctions? was he talking to anybody else? this was the national security adviser. and that is why it s so important and that is why sally yates was so concerned about any kind of improper communications with the russians that could leave him and the administration vulnerable. so, you know, i mean there are lots of layers to this onion and it includes a lot of people. so this has gone on for a very long time. we have to presume that mueller knows a lot. greg, president trump keeps tweeting, sending encouraging messages saying he would definitely not testify against the president.
of this. gloria borger is back with me. also joining us former u.s. attorney greg brower assistant u.s. director for internal affairs. he s are his belief and this is now the top law enforcement officer in the nation. how do you feel about that? well, i know matt whitaker to be a smart lawyer and a dedicated public servant but he face as significant problem now in terms of the way this whole thing went down with the firing of the attorney general. the problem, in my opinion, has three parts. the first part of the problem is that of public perception. clearly we ve seen in the last 48 hours there s this public perception that this was a political move by the president himself, which is not the way that the chief law enforcement officer of the country is supposed to be chosen. secondly the second problem is that on capitol hill obviously democrats on capitol
the question is now that he s in the job and let s see how long he s in the job, will he be telling donald trump things about the mueller investigation? will he be slowing the mueller investigation down in any way? these are big concerns? why would he say and greg, you told our producers that obviously he was lying when he said he didn t know matt whitaker and we played the clip of him a month ago. it s donald trump. he s distancing himself. whenever be in gets into a little bit of trouble that was fast. well, paul manafort worked on the campaign a couple of days, steve bannon. this is the way trump operates. when there s trouble, he runs in the other direction. even though you have it on tape, it doesn t seem to matter. but it really does indicate that he understands, at least, that there are problems with