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Administration, and just when we thought we knew all we could from the mueller effort, weve learned something new tonight, and this confirms the feeling a lot of folks have had, that we might just be living in the midst of a mob movie. this story has to do with michael flynn, who trump hired as national security adviser despite being warned about it. there are new revelations tonight coming from the russia investigation. flynn, you may recall, lasted 24 days on the job. he pleaded guilty back in...

Headquarters here in new york. day 847 of this trump administration, and just when we thought we knew all we could from the mueller effort, weve learned something new tonight, and this confirms the feeling a lot of folks have had, that we might just be living in the midst of a mob movie. this story has to do with michael flynn, who trump hired as national security adviser despite being warned about it. there are new revelations tonight coming from the russia investigation. flynn, you may recall,...

Day 767 of the trump administration. hours from now the american president referenced in legal documents as individual 1 will land in hanoi in vietnam for his second summit with north koreas kim jong-un. while the president is there, his former personal lawyer will testify as to what he knows, a city in washington also consumed with anticipation over the release of whatever it is robert mueller has found out during the course of his russia investigation. some major democrats in the house have al...

Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 767 of the trump administration. hours from now the american president referenced in legal documents as individual 1 will land in hanoi in vietnam for his second summit with north koreas kim jong-un. while the president is there, his former personal lawyer will testify as to what he knows, a city in washington also consumed with anticipation over the release of whatever it is robert mueller has found out during the course of his russia investigatio...

And then today came this from rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who had been supervising the mueller effort, comments today that seemed to some to be fore shadowing some legal fight over the mueller findings programs. >> elasticity theres a knee jerk reaction that we should be transparent about what we should do if government, but there are a lot of reasons not to be transparent about what we do in government. just because they collect information doesnt men the information is accurate...

Competing element of maybe youll get a reduced sentence from the court, but then on the other hand maybe youll get a pardon from the president, everythings kind of turned on its head, and the prosecutors mentioned that in this hearing, and they said this is one of the reasons they felt that manafort had been holding back, had not been telling the whole truth is because he was trying to play his odds and trying to keep the possibility of a pardon open, which is dangerous for a cooperating witness...

This is the carrot, they have to tell everything, the good, the bad, if they do that dirty work, they could try to get a reduced sentence. here, where you have this competing element of maybe youll get a reduced sentence from the court. maybe youll get a pardon from the president, everythings kind of turned on its head, and the prosecutors mentioned that in this hearing, they said this is one of the reasons they felt that manafort had been holding back, had not been telling the whole truth, he w...

Here, where you have this competing element of maybe youll get a reduced sentence from the court. maybe youll get a pardon from the president, everythings kind of turned on its head, and the prosecutors mentioned that in this hearing, they said this is one of the reasons they felt that manafort had been holding back, had not been telling the whole truth, he was trying to play his odds and trying to keep the possibility of a pardon open, which is dangerous for a cooperating witness, and absolutel...

The kind of pleas where the crimes are created by the independent counsel, conveniently he gets them to plead where he wants them to plead after finding unrelated offenses.i this is starr chamber tactics. i have seen it for a long time. you are coming it to the fore. with flynn. >> sean: its scary. >> papadopoulos, getting two weeks, from a pr point of view, had to come forward with no jail for flynn or looked even worse. this mueller effort is a pr effort as much as it is a hreal effort. >> sea...

Kind of pleas where the crimes are created by the independent counsel. conveniently he gets them lying where he wants them to pleeld unreality i had offenses. this is star chamber tactics. i have seen it for a long time. you are coming it to the fore. with flynn. >> sean: its scary. >> papadopoulos two weeks from a pr point of view i had to come forward with no jail for flynn or looked even worse. this mueller effort is a pr effort as much as it is a real effort. >> sean: heres what we know. we ...