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People at play, berit. >> right. one reason you often dont see redaction in a 5x -- a sentencing letter on behalf of cooperating witnesses. one reason you dont see a lot of redactions, they usually come at the very end of a proceeding so you wouldnt have a valuable cooperating witness sentenced unless you were for all intents and purposes done using them. your leverage over that witness is significantly lessened once they know what sentence they will get. >> why do it now? they have weird langua...

More about fleeing turkey and trump russia. this is another in a long series of nothing burger is the left has gotten extremely excited about hoping they were going to bring down trump on nonexistent collusion. flynns big problems he and his son had a consulting firm that took a big pile of money to turkey to do sketchy things. when that came to light and he didnt come clean about it mueller has leverage against him and used that to get a guilty plea to lying under oath and used that as a way to...

Transition team says flynn, called the russian ambassador and tallow them to de-escalate the situation. he gets on the phone and calls kislyak and obviously this thing is recorded by the national security apparatus and then he gets unmasked and this is leaked, the conversation, to "the washington post." shocking how that came about, isnt it? >> juan: sick puppy, sick puppy right here. from the sick puppy point of view, obviously he had extensive cooperation with mueller and guess what, jesse. th...

Valuable because he was one of the people with long term and first hand insight regarding events by the fbo. joining us now, justin, thanks for being with us. when you go through a situation like this, does that mean that its classified or being held back for other reasons? >> there are any number of reasons something like this might be redacted. it is in robert muellers interest to keep private certain thins until hes able to confirm them or verify them or use them as leverage against other wit...

Criminal investigation that we dont know what this is? >> that is much more likely to be related to turkey operations than anything related to transition or talks with the russians during the transition. those were all things the national security adviser is perfectly authorized to do. the lying under oath about that and the fact that mueller has leverage on him due to the nature of what he is doing or promises to do for turkey because i dont think they delivered the work. it is a lot more intim...

To. flynn lies about both of those conversations to the fbi. if the fbi is worried about russia having compromised flynn, once they get these false statements from him, not only is he committing another crime by lying to them about it, this is a counterintelligence emergency, he has been lying and russia knows it. having leverage like that over a national security adviser, thats a catastrophe. in addition the defendant made false statements to the fbi about his prior interactions with the russia...

For your business, then you have to give us this -- is that really voluntarily or is that a bit of, you know, extortion? >> and i think that is whats going to be really hard to decide in 90 days. if you listen to the different voices coming out of the administration, we had john bolton speaking yesterday, very hawkish, he was saying, its not just about them buying a trillion dollars worth of stuff, its about aspects of their behavior, and sththen steve mnun said, they will buy a trillion dollars...

Matters and not being disclosed to the public even a little. shouldnt we essentially see that as generosity toward flynn? >> yeah, i think thats a fair read, rachel. heres why. the government could have asked the judge to keep postponing sentencing. the judge i assume would have done so. and most defendants have to wait until their cooperation is complete in order to get this consideration. a couple things might be going on here, though. number one, remember his guidelines -- the guideline recom...

Heres why. the government could have asked the judge to keep postponing sentencing. the judge i assume would have done so. and most defendants have to wait until their cooperation is complete in order to get this consideration. a couple things might be going on here, though. number one, remember his guidelines -- the guideline recommendations was still 0 to 6 months, he was perhaps not likely to go to jail no matter what, even though the judge could sentence him to a period of incarceration, sec...

Recommendation before the case is over. what do you make of all that? >> well, i think its important to keep in mind that he did plead guilty about a year ago. and so theyve delayed this sentencing several times. and no doubt theyve reached a point where they feel like the sentencing is -- the cooperation is complete. ordinarily you want to, as dan pointed out, wait until a witness has testified if youre going to ask him to testify. so that you can maintain leverage over him and he has the incen...