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Together sophisticated document that took thousands of hours of work to build. this is an impressive document from an investigators perspective and the fact that they were able to keep it under wraps until the deputy attorney general decided at his moment, he decided when to let the public know, is impressive. it shows that this is being run in a professional way and knowing bob mueller and knowing rod rosenstein, you shouldnt expect anything else. >> john brownly, thank you so much. appreciate ...

A country either in europe or somewhere else that has an extradition treaty with the united states, they could be detained and brought here. so essentially they become a prisoner of their own country which for some of these folks might not matter much to them, but it might. and so we can also then take additional steps to try to actively try to pick them up and bring them to the united states for trial. so my hope and i anticipate that there are efforts that will try to bring them here based on ...

Station chief yourself, do we do this? >> you know, i cant talk too much about what we do. i would say what the russians are doing is kind of special unto themselves. and i would emphasize as well that in terms of going forward, the onus is on the intelligence community and i can tell you from my own experience, we need that kascardinal in the kremlino can tell us what putin is doing, what are his plans for the future going forward. we know to know that desperately. >> john brownly, let me bring...

And i think it is implicit in the agreement that the special counsel believes that he will provide what we call substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another. and certainly he anticipates providing that kind of substantial assistance to the special counsel in order to get the very low sentence that hes been promised. which is practically nothing in a very small fine. so both sides have incentives here. but general flynn has every incentive now to provide as much informati...

Attorney joins us now. john, we know youve been in contact with warren wise. how is she taking this news? shes got to be hurt and outraged. >> thank you for allowing me to be here. she is devastated. the family is devastated. warren weinstein was a great american. he was captured by al qaeda in august of 2011. held for over three years and then in january of this year he was killed by a u.s. air strike. at that time al qaeda dug up his body, desecrated his remains. weve been unable to get them b...

The u.s. in this theyre instructed to carry out small scale attacks inside the united states and other countries. he refers to the boston marathon bombing, charlie hebdo shootings. this is all from al qaeda. did the cia miss a chance to save an american hostage? according to the washington post the cia detected a man being held by al qaeda but they didnt keep that person under drone surveillance. some u.s. officials say they believe that man could have been warren weinstein, the american aid w...

Compound, that no civilians were present. >> reporter: the u.s. never shared the information with his family. his wife says shes horrified by the news, saying in a statement, quote -- they told us for three years that everything possible was being done to find and rescue warren. we feel deceived. elise labott reporting. joining me now is john brownly, the attorney for warren wine teens family. does the weinstein family believed they were intentionally misled by the obama administration about t...

Counsel robert mueller? ill let you know the result at the end of this program. joining me now, two experts with perfect backgrounds for this story. daniel hoffman, retired cia station chief who served five years in moscow, currently works as a vice president of the consulting group spg. and john brownly is former u.s. attorney, served at the justice department for a decade, now he runs the white collar criminal defense for the washington firm of holland and knight. he represented virginia gover...

So for if example the special counsel robert mueller had him on the logan act he would probably have charged him on that. if he proved that he had kpired with the trump campaign. bleeding guilty brokering a deal with russia is much better than admitting that he lied with the government when it comes to his future use as a witness. joining me is john brownly, a former u.s. attorney, served at a justice department for a decade. he now runs the white collar criminal defense and he was bob mcdonalds...

Defendants like general flynn, a lot of what you see with regard to what he pleads guilty to is balanced against the type of information that he can provide. and so none of us know what he is saying, none of us know what hes going to tell the special counsel. but i dont believe that the nature of his offense, which i agree, is fairly, the type of sentence that hes going to get which is almost zero here, is a great deal for him. but im not so sure can you interpret that as saying that he didnt co...