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Where general flynn got a blistering rebuke from the judge. and at the top of the hour you saw how the administrations top spokesperson dealt with it, or failed to be. jim acosta joins us from the white house. what does it tell you we actually havent heard from the president himself since michael flynn left the court? >> reporter: john, i think thats interesting, though he did tweet about the wall and how he wants a wall on the border, despite the fact they cements to be giving up on funding on ...

>> bill: confounding turn of events in court yesterday. michael flynn in front of the judge. a harsh rebuke. he has to wait his fate. michael mukasey. i dont know what happened yesterday. you called it weird. >> i d. confounding is one word, weird is another, shorter. the behavior principally from the judge. lets take a step back. going in yesterday we had a defendant who had an exemplary record, charged with a crime where the guideline was 0 to 6 months. the government recommending no time. eve...

For former national security adviser michael flynn as he faced a blistering rebuke from the judge overseeing his sentencing. >> the judge has put that sentencing on hold to allow flynn to continue his cooperation with the government. >> michael flynn arrived at the federal courthouse in washington with every reason to expect he would be sentenced only to probation with no prison time. thats what his lawyer said would be appropriate and robert muellers prosecutors agreed saying hes been cooperati...

Poles in wisconsin. on the issue of early voting, just a few years ago a federal court judge struck down an earlier effort. they filed suit in the same court. i expect it will happen again. >> thank you for joining me. senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin. up next, blocking the policy. . ruling that those policies violate existing law. were going to have details on this major rebuke to the president and who made the ruling, you may know him. - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations...

About the pushback the president is getting for this decision within his own party coming up. coming up, invasion of privacy, another bomb shell report on facebook. this one says facebook gave companies access to far more of your information than its ever admitted. plus, flynns future. just how much will michael flynn cooperate with robert mueller after his blistering rebuke from a judge? and a big win, how an unlikely alliance of jared kushner, kim kardashian, and president trump helped m...

And what really jumped out at me is that the judge thought to himself, this is worse than a zero to 6 guideline sentence that you have here, and youve got that because the special counsels office agreed not to charge you for worse conduct. but im going to consider that conduct. and right now your cooperation isnt complete and its not -- it may not be -- he didnt say it wasnt, but he certainly indicated that it may not be enough cooperation to get you down to that probation sentence. so i really ...

To the egregious conducts that he engaged in in getting paid by turkey to lobby against the u.s. while he is trumps primary national security advisor on the campaign. and he did not plead guilty to that conduct. that conduct was not a part of his sentencing guidelines and the pre-sentence report. and what really jumped out at me is that the judge thought to himself, this is worse than a zero to 6 guideline sentence that you have here, and youve got that because the special counsels office agreed...

Finance. so is this going to go away? perhaps. but it may not end the other liabilities that could potentially affect the trump organization. that still seems to be in the cross hairs of investigators. so certainly, youre right, pam. this is not good for trump, for the president. theres a lot going on. >> and this is, there are 17 investigations that have arisen from the trump russia investigation. this is one of them. this is according to an article written on "wired." and it goes to show while...

Were there right inside -- that this federal judge was ready to give him some time in jail. >> yeah, he was ready to lock him up, wolf. and it was clear, certainly, about 30 minutes into this hearing, the lawyers, i think, began realizing that the pickle they were in. this all goes back to a court filing that they made just a few days ago in which instead of just saying we agree with robert mueller, no jail time, here are 50 letters of recommendation on general flynns behalf, they sort of took t...

Offering a scathing rebuke of the fired national security adviser, venting his disgust and his disdain about flynns admitted lies, even briefly suggesting they may be treason us. flynns team agreed to a delay in sentencing after the judge suggested he might not go along with the special counsels recommendation for little or no jail time. tonight the man who chanted "lock her up" at the republican national convention may have narrowly escaped being locked up himself. this hour, ill talk to senate...