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Aware of a separate investigation happening by the fbi. and sometimes immunity deals can influence prosecution outside of congress and so it gets complicated. but so far, immunity is being floated, but its far from tshg far from happening. dara. >> kelly odonnell at the white house, great to have you this morning, kelly. >> thank you. and for more now on michael flynns immunity request, joining me is paul butler, law professor at georgetown university and a former federal prosecutor. good morn...

Happened. take whatever precaution you want or however your legal counsel advises you. >> nbc news was first to report that the senate intelligence committee is not willing toake an immunity offer to michael flynn. at least not yet. a senior congressional official said michael flynns lawyer was told it was wildly preliminary, and that immunity was not on the table at the moment. and the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff said, quote, there is still much w...

Spicer also struggled to explain why the president referred to the three ongoing russia investigations being carried out by the senate, the house, and the fbi under his own justice department as a, quote, witch hunt. two congressional sources told nbc news the senate intelligence committee has rejected flynns immunity request. one official saying it was wildly preliminary and immunity was not on the table at the moment. a top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff,...

Going on their work. they have to do more investigation before they would know what it is that michael flynn could offer or willing to consider immunity. we are ahead of the game here. it also is a case that there is a separate investigation being done by the department of justice and the committees dont want to interfere with that. immunity seems far off. not completely off the table, but unlikely based on the people we talk to now. thomas. >> i expect a good lawyer would get assurances over un...

Because prosecutors want to see that hes telling the truth and that his information is valuable and that hes going to offer somebody whos either in an equal position or a higher position than he occupied. and lets face it, he was at the top of the pyramid in the security part of the united states government. >> yeah, for the time that he was there. >> yes. >> and all along the -- and especially in the trump campaign, which is kind of the time period that is in question when it comes, obviously t...

Appropriate value is significant saying we should first acknowledge what a grave and momentous ste it is for a former national security adviser to the president of the united states to ask for immunity from prosecution. the president is backing flynns ask for immunity saying in a tweet this is a witch-hunt, excuse for big election loss by media an der media and dems of historic proportion. >> i dont think its a witch-hunt but its obvious to me why general flynn is out there now wanting to say he...

>> is the clear option a good idea? >> you have somebody out there for 20 hours testifying. each senator on that ask committee had over an hour to question this man about his qualifications. many of the same people admitted before the hearings they were going to fill burt didnt fulfill their entire hour. for them to say he didnt answer questions is ridiculous. you had one senator yesterday, duckworth say im voting against him because he didnt come by see me. thats pretty petty. in about 30 min...

Want or however your legal counsel advises you. >> nbc news was first to report that the senate intelligence committee is not willing to make an immunity offer to michael flynn. at least not yet. a senior congressional official said michael flynns lawyer was told it was wildly preliminary, and that immunity was not on the table at the moment. and the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff said, quote, there is still much work and many more witnesses and docum...

Certainly theres -- no ones rushing to embrace this on the senate side. >> i think thats -- what you just said, if youre looking at the one decision point for how serious they take an immunity request, its senate republicans f. youre a democrat, neither the house or senate, you see no incentive to do this. if youre a house republican or chairman of the house intelligence committee, that program has been so compromised with the kind of loop de loop that just happened, the white house came to ask ...

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