it seems like the prerequisite now is, where you in a position of power? do you hate the president? okay, here s your stage. go ahead, go on. look at michael avenatti. he got on cable news hundreds of times in a small span because he hated the president and spoke about politics and even russia when he wasn t qualified to do it, and with mccabe, by the way? he lied under oath three times to the fbi, as you said, told anderson cooper that the president was a russian asset, so think about this. if he lied to the fbi, and we are applying the michael flynn standard here in terms of sentencing and going to jail, andrew mccabe shouldn t be on cnn. he should be in jail because he s committed the same crime that michael flynn has, but instead, he will go ahead and you will see him on cable news and it s a complete disservice to cnn viewers, where their integrity is going down, for lack of a better term, a black
might have. you heard kernel peters earlier, who sound equally disgusted as judge sullivan told the world, that he was today. are you disgusted by michael flynn s behavior lying to the fbi? you know, if you take michael flynn at his word in front of the judge, that he knew he was lying and deliberately lied again, i don t understand why he would have, it doesn t make sense, but if you take the face value of what michael flynn said, i think the judge had every right to be upset. well, i don t think it was treason, but i do believe it s a serious offense. if you did that knowingly, you obviously should know better, so i can understand the way the judge reacted. can you understand, then, if the judge reacted that way, and you say you shared that feeling, not the treason part, do you think the white house is taking the right attitude here, which
reason. so i think rudy giuliani would have a hard time fighting it in court given that law. what happened if the courtroom today, michael flynn s sentencing hearing where there was no sentence. prior to that meeting president trump tweeted out good luck. is it appropriate for the president to be tweeting good luck to someone pleading guilty to lying to the fbi and admitted to lying to the vice president? i ve said before, i think it s inappropriate for the president to be dangling pardons in front of michael cohen names and complimenting michael flynn. it s just not appropriate, particularly when these people are involved in an investigation of the president or his administration. it just doesn t have the right feel. but i do think there s around an important point, john, about what happened today. there s a feeling that somehow the mueller investigation is on its own, that it is moving, you know, just as a separate engine of the united states government.
inside trump world there s not panic has not set in in thinking oh, my goodness, michael flynn just gave up donald trump, they ve now proven collusion. there is some confidence, at least tonight, can t say this moving forward, but at least tonight that they haven t made that link just yet. jim acosta for us at the white house. great to have you on. thanks so much. you bet. so kengts staneth starr no r to moments like this. led the investigation which led to the impeachment on president clinton. now his comments on fox news about a few of the multiple investigations of the president have goent at tension of the president. judge ken starr former solicitor general independent counsel just stated that after two years there is no evidence or proof of collusion and further that there is no evidence that there was a campaign financing violation involving the president. thank you judge. now, ken starr i should note has a book out contempt a memoir of the clinton investigation and most
and over again for this president. that is whether or not he s contemplating a pardon for michael flynn. what we saw from michael flynn today and it was surprising coming out of the courthouse, that essentially the white house had no plan b from a messaging standpoint. they said okay, we believe michael flynn was bullied, he was entrapped and so on. and then when that blew up in their faces, now they re left with the pressure that comes from looking at redacted court filings from the special counsel s office and so on. i would have to expect that that is going to weigh down on people inside the white house, most notably the president. but when i talked to a source close to the white house earlier this evening, an outside adviser, there is still a strong belief inside trump world that michael flynn does not hurt donald trump, that the crimes that michael flynn is pleading guilty to have to do with lying to federal investigators, that collusion with russia was not proven and even though