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Been advised of that, thats been redacted from any document that weve seen. we arent going to know until time passes. usually a defendant who has cooperated is sentenced when his cooperation is already known after he has testified or after the case has been brought. here he is being sentenced beforehand. >> bill: does flynn talk today? michael cohen talked before the judge last week. does flynn speak or does he talk when he leaves the courtroom if he is sentenced to know time? >> he has to be ad...

Shutdown but a lot of republican sources say they dont think the optics would be good at christmas, sandra. >> sandra: the drama sblg. >> bill: back to our top story. michael mukasey is with me now talking about general flynn. is this the end of the flynn matter today? >> thats a great question. usually a sentencing is the end of the case. you know whats going to happen to the defendant. you know if he is a cooperator you know what he did to earn the diminished sentence. here it is just the begi...

To leave behind a pleasant scent youll love. use anywhere odors can spread. freshen up, dont cover up. febreze air effects. >> sandra: former national security advisor michael flynn awaiting his sentencing as new details emerge about his interview with the f.b.i. last year. welcome to a brand-new hour of "americas newsroom," im sandra smith. >> bill: im bill hemmer. flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. critics calling his f.b.i. interview a trap. here is what former attorney general micha...

The top of the hour. alan dershowitz, author of the case against impeaching trump joins us now. welcome back. what are your -- what is your thinking ahead of this sentencing? >> well, i hope the judge will ask some very, very hard questions. questions about whether or not the plea was a valid plea. i dont believe it was a valid plea. i think that flynn was coerced into pleading guilty to a crime which he was innocent. he was coerced by threats against his son, his fortune and the reason i think ...

Golsteyn is now being charged in that mans death. the president said he would review the case. matthews wife julie says thats more than welcome. she joins us now. americans watching this story and the president brought a lot of attention to it by tweeting the other day. here is the tweet. at the request of many i will be reviewing the case of a u.s. military hero major matt golsteyn charged with murder. he could face the death penalty from our own government after saying he killed a terrorist bo...

To create the ultimate feast youve been dreaming of. like lobster mac & cheese. or tender snow crab. so hurry in before new create your own ultimate feast ends. >> the f.b.i. broke every standard protocol that they have. we know that because of james comeys actual comments that they threw f.b.i. protocol out the windows for one reason only, because it was the trump administration and they thought they could. and they thought they could get away with it. that gives certainly a lot of concern for ...

>> no. >> bill: usually when you get a sentencing phase of a trial thats the end of the case. mukasey said it is not tend of the case with regard to michael flynn. sir? do you still have us? >> are you asking me to comment on michael mukasey. i hope its not the end of the case. i hope it results in an investigation by the inspector general of the tactics used by the f.b.i. look, the basic question for the american public is do we want an f.b.i. going around administering morality, criminal moral...

Special counsel have a person with a target on his back. theyre trying to get trump. theyll use every means possible to try to get trump and that includes going after people who have committed less serious crimes, squeezing them, threatening them and getting them to provide evidence. sometimes it backfires like in the manafort case because he didnt provide truthful testimony. we dont know whether it backfired in the cohen case or not. but its a tactic that is widely used, long condemned by civil...

Carlton dance popular is suing two games. he says the makers of fortnight and nba2k series are making money off his signature dan and asking the judge to ban the games showing and selling that. >> sandra: ive seen it on the show, yes it. looks like carltons dance. >> bill: he plays in a golf tournament every year at pebble beach and every tee box he will do the dance. funny stuff. well see whether or not he wins in case. you have a case right there. >> sandra: another big question today. will th...

Under these circumstances is really kind of difficult. if you take a look at the report on the interview, his answers are somewhat equivocal. he says well, i didnt really try to persuade kislyak not to overreact to our sanctions. and im -- i dont really recall much of the conversation. usually a false statement case is a lot sharper than that. now, obviously why did he plead guilty to it? , to avoid something worse? stories there was pressure on his son and obviously if there was, thats a good r...