clink for at least some period of time. it did, jake. the judge stressed that prison time was not off the table, even though that s what flynn s lawyers and mueller s team essentially agreed to in their sentencing memos. this was really a hearing that went off the rails for flynn s team with that rough rhetoric coming from the judge who will ultimately sentence flynn sometime next year. michael flynn s sentencing is on hold after a dramatic two-hour rebuke from the judge. federal judge emmett sullivan scolding president trump s former national security adviser, telling flynn, i am not hiding my disgust, my disdain for your criminal offense. the next president of the united states, right here! at one point, the judge noted that flynn was lobbying for the turkish government at the same time he was working for the trump campaign. flynn even wrote an op-ed on election day, attacking a cleric living in pennsylvania home the turkish government accused of
turkish clerk living in the united states. kian and flynn held weekly calls with their occturkish contact. flynn, who is not charged with illegally lobbying in this new indictment, even published an op-ed on election day 2016 attacking gulen as an extremist without disclosing his own business ties. fox news analyst andrew napolitano is laying out quite a scenario, suggesting that the president, who s been identified in open court as individual 1 could already be indicted for directing cohen to break election law by paying off two women to keep his alleged affairs secret. there s ample evidence. this doesn t require too much analysis to indict the president. the question is do they want to do it.
message to voters. in brand new op-ed on fox news, president argues the today s vote is about the economy. it is titled vote republican and continue the jobs boom. also warns voters not to allow democrats to, quote, take control and take a giant wrecking ball to your economy and your future. joining me now, political chief economic correspondent. why would we ever go back. what do i say to that. worst economic recovery on record. why don t we fact check that. we had a relatively slow recovery from the great recession. partly because it was the deepest recession since the great depression. so it s not entirely wrong the recovery was slow. look at job creation.
sell the fbi about violent drunken behavior. this is the pile on or could its way vote in the senate? live reaction from the republican lawmaker. dianne feinstein at center stage yet again. first she sat on christine blasey-ford s letter for two month and today she fired off a letter to the white house making demands about the scope of the fbi investigation but feinstein is not alone. john brennan is weighing accusing brett kavanaugh of blatant partisanship. pretty rich from brennan who accused donald trump of treason. the new york times s new op-ed on how the fbi should run the risk of an investigation written by james comey. the trump and clinton fbi probes, our panel will debate whether they have a point or should sit this one out. and talk about irony, the president who battled the fbi leadership for a year, now the president but the fate of his nominee in the hands of that same fbi declaring free reign to dig around, what he thinks, if
this is the kind of thing we do, but it gave no specific examples, nothing to hang the op-ed on. on the other hand, you can certainly understand why any president would want a person like that to be out of his or her administration. no president, democrat or republican, would tolerate a person who was openly not only trying to thwart them, but overtly telling people at least through anonymous column that they re trying to thwart that. not that this white house isn t dysfunctional in other ways, but that is a big concern and would be for any other president. and you re seeing that as well? and the fact that there s a discussion at all about taking l lie detector tests and that even the vice president is coming out and saying this isn t me, just