robert mueller the moment he was appointed and him making time in his hotel conference schedule to go to the special counsel s office and commit felonies allegedly by lying to the fbi. we have not heard from that guy since he was indicted six months ago, but here he is. he has lawyers representing him even though he doesn t plan on being here to face trial. and that odd turn comes at the same time as several other sort of unsettling developments over the last couple of days. in the case of this guy s business associate, in the case of michael flynn. in flynn s own criminal case, we ve just gotten released a less redacted version of the fbi s notes for their own interview with him in january 2017. that s the fbi interview where flynn lied to the fbi about his conversations with the russian government during the transition. those interview notes give us a bunch of additional details about mike flynn and russia we didn t have before. part of his plea deal with the government when he pled
but i got to tell you now, that this report is wrapped up and made its way to the attorney general, now begins the epic fight on the other side of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill to find out what s in it. this is an issue on which you have rare bipartisan agreement. democrats and republicans both calling on barr to make public what he can as quickly as possible. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell putting out a statement saying barr should make this information available with as much openness and transparency as possible. nancy pelosi the house speaker, chuck schumer agreeing with him but going a step further. they re insisting on seeing the full report and want to see all of the special counsel s homework, all the underlying evidence, documents, interview notes. you also have the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler issuing this threat. take a look. if the justice department doesn t release the whole report or tries to keep parts of it secret, we will certainly
keep the russian response to engage in a tit-for-tat. flynn responded not really, i don t remember, not don t do anything. there were a lot of i don t remembers in that. a lot of people talking about that. what did you make of it? it was a strange 302, the number the form uses for its witness interview notes. he asked about comments, jim comey and other people, bob mueller decided this conversation was very important, he has to have remembered he talked to sergey and at other times in that memorandum, flynn appears to have acknowledged he knew his conversations had been recorded and if you knew your conversations had been recorded and why would you lie about that? i don t recall, i don t think so but he has admitted he made a false statement. i don t think he s going to try
several different stages. at this point, you have a very senior fbi agent that s doing this. that s one of the top people i m sure they wanted to go into that interview and it s very straightforward. what we don t have is we ve heard rumors of an intercepted call or they picked up on it so we can t compare it to what it might be. that s one weak ness of reading the interview notes, we don t know what was actually said. if he admitted to lying, it sounds like there was some other source in there. let me ask you about the intercepted calls. it s interesting during the interview they reminded him of what he said, who he said it to. he thanks them for the reminder. how would they know all that, clint? yeah, let s think about this. based on what i read of this, this was phone calls made from a person s cell phone in a third country, the dominican republic, back to a diplomat, russian ambassador, who s sitting in washington, d.c. if you re the former head of the defense intelligence agen
and interview. it s very straightforward. what we don t have is we ve heard rumors of an intercepted call or they picked up on it. we can t compare it to what that might be. that s the one weakness of reading the interview notes. we don t know what was said. if he admitted to lying, there was some other source that was there. let me ask you that during the interview he thanks them for the reminder. how would they have known this? let s think about this. based on what i read, this was phone calls made from a person s cell phone in a third skun try back to a diplomat, russian ambassador, sitting in washington d.c. if you re the former head of the defense intelligence agency you might think that that phone call would be heard from other people. it might suggest there could be a whole lot going on with that