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Michael flynn has provided, quote, substantial assistance to the russia investigation and should not get jail time. thats the big news from special counsel robert muellers court filing on tuesday night. now the filing, a sentencing memo, comes after flynn has cooperated with muellers team for more than a year. sitting for 19 interviews with the special counsel and other justice department offices. the memo appears to show that flynn help the justice department with at least three ongoing investi...

>> republican senators furious after a cia briefing on the jamal khashoggi murder. the relationship now with riyadh under renewed scrutiny. good morning and welcome to "early start." im dave briggs. >> im christine romans. it is wednesday, december 5th. exactly 5:00 a.m. in the east. and we start with robert mueller recommending no jail time for president trumps former national security adviser, michael flynn because of, quote, substantial help in the russia probe. much of what flynn told the ...

National security adviser, michael barks of substantial help in the russia probe. much of what flynn told the special counsel remains shrouded in secrecy. the report was heavily redacted, but mueller says, quote, flynns early cooperation convinced others to be forthcoming and that flynns lies about his contacts with the russian ambassador in late 2016 were repeated by senior trump transition team members. >> flynns full account of events has been one of the best-kept secrets in washington as mue...

Placed. michael flynn met with the special counsel or doj attorneys 19 times. >> 19 times. >> 19 times. >> that is a lot. >> is that unusual? >> i tried to think back -- i was prosecutor for 14 years. i thought, did i ever meet with any one cooperator 19 times? maybe for trial -- thats an awful lot of times to meet with a cooperates. he also -- cooperator. he also postponed meetings 14 times. and you put it up as many times as you think a judge will tolerate it. >> fit this into the big picture....

Most recent filing prior to this? >> yes, jim. i think there is a couple things at play. i do think mueller was trying to do his best to not do anything explosive. i think mueller is being tactical. for every piece of information mueller puts out there, some of the witnesses adjust their story accordingly. you want to hold close for as long as you can properly and appropriately any information you have. we saw that potentially last week when mueller waited until he got his written answers from t...

About the powers beyond bob mueller, the powers that reside in congress itself with impeachment and trial, it becomes maybe a bit more difficult to sweep things under the rug when the fraud that was perpetrated and the illegal activity that was talked about was perpetrated on the congress itself. given they are the body start ng t in the house and later the senate that deals with the question of whether or not theres been abuse of power. if donald trump and members of his family were involved in...

An adversarial relationship with the united states on several issues, to advance himself. so, just as an american, that was scking and appalling. the attorney in me said, donald trump should be feeling a whole lot of heat right now because while we dont know all that robert mueller has, we know that what that information that was released in court today contained was not all the information that robert mueller has. and so to franks point, we dont know all that he has and we dont know if he answe...

Issues, to advance himself. so, just as an american, that was shocking and appalling. the attorney in me said, donald trump should be feeling a whole lot of heat right now because while we dont know all that robert mueller has, we know that what that information that was released in court today contained was not all the information that robert mueller has. and so to franks point, we dont know all that he has and we dont know if he answers all of franks questions. we certainly know that hes got m...

So, just as an american, that was shocking and appalling. the attorney in me said, donald trump should be feeling a whole lot of heat right now because while we dont know all that robert mueller has, we know that what that information that was released in court today contained was not all the information that robert mueller has. and so to franks point, we dont know all that he has and we dont know if he answers all of franks questions. we certainly know that hes got more than was stated in that ...

Manafort entering into this information sharing agreement. they keep the agreement in place. now, mind you, thats not up ethical. its really problematic. we can see the reason manafort did it is because hes trying to keep one foot in the mueller camp, one foot in the i hope president trump will pardon me camp and i think its going to blow up on manafort. why? because, look -- >> why do you think it doesnt blow up on mueller? this is stunning all these guys are allowed to talk to one another. to ...