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>> you know, everybody has their own personal politics. right? i did as a prosecutor. were all people with our own views. what we look for in prosecutors and investigators is that they set the views aside at the door and they dont come into play when as prosecutors and investigators strictly as the facts in the case. what agent strzok did was wrong and people can take great confidence in both the integrity of the investigation and bob mueller, he immediately pulled him out of the line. an agent ...

At press conferences this week about it and weve not gotten the chance to do it yet. right now she stihe is still a of congress and not hearing overwhelming calls to step down. reporting today we worked on at nbc about the house ethics panel potentially wanting to speak with the accuser but dont have that confirmed at this point. its clearly something bubbling here and frankly, the speakers been pretty quick making sure that his house is clean. theyve had issues this year, congressman joe barton...

Case that sparked national outrage cleared of murder charges. president trump, who seized on the case to push his border wall, furious this morning, but first, president trump was not furious last night when he and first lady melania lit up the national christmas tree, ending the ceremony by wishing everyone a merry christmas. seth meyers following the presidents lead celebrated a return of christmas. >> christmas is back, you guys. they lit the tree right outside this building last night. i wor...

If you say something that you know to be wrong or they say that you know to be wrong, at that point, you can be -- you can be charged with a crime. and so in this case there were several occasions in december of 2016 and conversations with the russia ambassador that according to the court paperwork, they say that michael flynn will plead guilty to today. thats one single count of lying on several occasions to federal investigat investigators. so right now, you know, this is something that is loo...

Was a talk that his legal team was no longer speaking -- >> last thursday we learned that. >> exactly. so thats indicative of someone as you know is out for self. no longer a joint defense agreement which is what attorneys usually have together from one team and another, is no longer the case. youre no longer going to share confidential information so this is huge. >> hans nichols join us. no statement yet from the white house. what can you tell us? >> i was outside. im now inside. coming in, i ...

Comply with the law normally would be perhaps treated as misdemeanors in some cases but in this case, every time something happen, its either throw the book at the guy or let him off as he plays ball. this certainly has the earmarks of -- let them off lightly if he plays ball. one count of not giving an accurate statement to an fbi agent, thats probably the minimal charge they could have given to general flynn. everyones watching him because hes watching his son and thinking im not bringing my s...

Mueller case. the court has scheduled add plea hearing for lieutenant general michael t. flynn age 58 of alexandria virginia at 10:30 a.m. today. that is going to be serious. we have to break this down. this news is just coming out. i have midwin charles, so glad you are in the building to join us. max, whats your take? >> this is huge. its hard to exaggerate quite how big this is because bob mueller would not be giving flynn a plea deal unless he was offering valuable information. who is furthe...

Violent crime case. the potential penalties for michael flynn are pretty limited in this case, so it appears that his level of cooperation, and this is just based on all the other cases that ive covered and this is just based on other investigations, so i want to be clear on this. it would seem to indicate to me that his level of cooperation is fairly significant. but theres only to be a single count of lying in the course of a federal investigation. so we know from the criminal information that...

Special counsel that did not intend to prosecute. thats what they do. theyre assigned to a particular target and they target it. in this case, i believe its the president. >> i just want to bring pete williams in. he joins us now. our justice correspondent in d.c. when we think about mike flynn and politics, he stood by president trump from the beginning. he was a trump for life. but seeing that hes taken a deal here, it almost seems like weve gone from politics. we know how much hes in the corn...

Care. and wouldnt care. >> i dont know. >> he would pardon flynn in a second if he thought thats what he wanted to do. then the legal challenge becomes how do you challenge that legally. and it may be that the only way to challenge it legally would be to bring an impeachment action against the president for having issued that pardon. president would argue its within my constitutional power to issue a pardon. and so the case would be on. >> okay. we have gone inside the white house. we are lookin...