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>> carey, mueller would not have made this deal with flynn and allowed flynn to plead guilty to what he pled, if mueller didnt already know what flynn had to offer about other people up the food chain, correct? >> no, thats right. thats how this process works in terms of the information that flynn would have had to already have provided to the special counsels office so that they have a road map for what information he has available to him. its so important to note that michael flynn was charged...

>> carey, mueller would not have made this deal with nine if mueller didnt already know what flynn had to offer about other people up the food chain, correct? >> no, thats right. thats how this process works in terms of the information that flynn would have had to already have provided to the special counsels office so that they have a road map for what information he has available to him. its so important to note that michael flynn was charged with one count of making false statements. and yet ...

New york times." but on the information itself, i think it shows how a good-faith prosecutor cannot keep narrowly to russian influence on the election as his mandate because the whole financial web is so interconnected. a prosecutor who wanted to know whether there were, for example, russian payments being made to officials in the campaign would want to see if theres a pattern or practice within the flynn group, for example, of getting covert payments from foreign governments. so i think it show...

To begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reportrepor folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mueller has sent to the white ...

Were saying here. we are taking actions. the democratic partys taken actions. the democratic party is showing leadership. donald trump is sitting on the sidelines clearly to try to help protect himself and protect those at the top 1%. thats the reason we have to continue these investigations while we cannot sit idly by and make sure we get to the bottom of whats happening with russia and trying to interfere in our elections. >> michael, i have to ask you about another portion of that report thou...

Together. they have different abilities. indeed, we should have an independent commission, and clearly we need an independent prosecutor, but the house and senate select committee on intelligence means that -- we meet in top secret fashion, we are privy to top secret information on an ongoing basis, were going to have access to materials others probably wont have. so after 9/11 there were a whole series of investigations, each had their own merits, we need to do the same. >> is there any evidenc...

Days, 20 days. it should last about 30 days. but once they get a hold of the black box, then theres no life-limited issue there in terms of the data inside of it. whether they get it tomorrow or five years from now, the data will still be there. >> right, yeah, so the battery life depends on the pinger, not the information itself, so that will still be there. how do you think this changes the search, if at all? >> well, i think it would change the focus of the search, because its in another quad...

As well as the authority under the international investigation treaty to which they are a party. so, the information itself, theres been a lot of people participating in that. my big concern, if i were to represent one of the families, this announcement would take some of the intensity of the search away. >> do you think there would be any way to find out what happened without the debris? and this is for michael verna. finding the 777 is important, and until its found, its a

Confidential details of what exactly it happeneded over. jen westhoven covers all things business. will the courts allow them to do that? >> not just google, all these other tech companies are chiming in, too. we havent heard from the cell phone companies, but very interesting that google, they released the statement out yesterday. we got a quote from it. where basically theyre saying it is time for the government to lift the veil of secrecy. to let them talk about, not the information itself, b...

Stuff. i, for one, dont like leakers. i dont like whistle blowers. i think its a matter of integrity that when youre in a job and that job is to keep secrets, then youre supposed to keep those secrets. both because of the information itself, the content, because its something you said you would do, and because you cant possibly know everything there is to know about how dangerous revealing that information will be. now, i also put whistle blowers who tell the public about, say, the dangers of ci...