misled him. the way we know that s not true is if there was really a problem here. flynn s more than competent defense counsel, they would have said the fbi improperly led flynn into this conduct. that didn t happen. his lawyers let him plead guilty. a why accepted that plea after hearing all of the evidence and finding that flynn was pleading guilty because he was in fact guilty and for no other reason. although the president may continue to influence his base and prejudice them into believing that law enforcement is somehow at fault here, the reality is that flynn has been properly adjudicated guilty, and it s a little bit too late in the process for anything to come along to resurrect that. why flynn was lying, though, i think is really the $80 million question here, and what we will be looking for an answer to in the next few weeks.
recommended for a sentence at the low end of the guidelines, and i don t know what the guidelines look like? it s zero to six months and they are arguing for no jail time. do we know how he helped or with what he has helped that has caused the special counsel s office to say despite the fact that he lied to the fbi he s been helpful to us and we think he should get the low end of the sentencing? they said they appreciated how substantial his offering has been, and remember there s a if i am remembering correctly, there s another investigation that is totally redacted involving michael flynn, and it s special from the special counsel s office. we don t seem to know much about it, and there s an investigation that involves the discussion about the kidnapping that a cleric from turkey, and there s an investigation going into that, so there s a number of
interviews that occurred, and with mike pence and chief of staff, then chief of staff, reince priebus, and it sights a meet the press interview where priebus talks about the subject and several other interviews that occurred as well where they have the false information from flynn, and that was part of this that flynn not only lied to the fbi but the trump white house about the conversations. mueller s team is being careful to go through the circumstances of this interview, how it came about. of course it garnered a lot of attention because andrew mccabe, no longer with the fbi, and strzok no longer with the fbi, we know why, and he and lisa page were biassed in some of the messages, not that their investigation was biassed but the things that were said were not things flattering of the
number of ways that as soon as he pleaded guilty he changed his tune entirely and was extremely cooperative. i read this partly as sort of defensive on the part of the fbi and the special counsel s office of saying don t buy his line, don t diminish what he did, we did not trick him into this, he knew, and somebody who has as much experience in the military and intelligence circles and the federal government as he did should have known that you don t lie to the fbi. tom, i know you are going through this, there are attachments to this, and i am looking at them with you and there are a lot of redactions? there are a lot of redactions, but there are interesting areas. these are notes from the people involved in the case, notes that these are restricted to the people in the case file, and it s my understanding for anything tied to this, and it says flynn was talking about various subjects, including hotels where they stayed during
april 1st through september 30th, $4.568 million. what we have got in the last hour is that the mueller investigation has responded to michael flynn s attorneys in making a sentencing recommendation. they have said that flynn did lie to the fbi but they end this by saying the seriousness of the defendant s offense cannot be called into question, and the court should reject his attempt to minimize it while the circumstances of the interviews do not present mitigating circumstances, assuming the defendant continues to accept responsibility for his actions. his cooperation and military service continue to justify a sentence at the low end of the guideline range. i want to thank my colleagues and friends for supporting our coverage of this, this hour. tom winter, glen kershner and former federal prosecutor elizabeth holtzman, attorney and former u.s. congresswoman who voted to impeach richard nixon, joyce vance. daniel goldman, msnbc s legal