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Tonight, a key piece of evidence from robert muellers investigation is being made public, a voice message from john dowd, former personal lawyer for donald trump to a lawyer for michael flynn. what does it tell us? lets bring in evan perez and elie honig to help us figure out what is going on here. good evening, gentlemen. evan, we now have the voice mail, president trumps attorney left for flynns attorney. can you lay this out for us, please? >> thats right, don. let me set the table just a lit...

Starters, mike flynn fired his lawyers today. these are the lawyers who have represented him the whole year and a half hes been cooperating with prosecutors. hes at the very tail end of his case. hes about to be sentenced, but, boom, today, his lawyers were gone, and i dont know if these things are connected, but today also by order of the judge in this case, we got a release of the audio recording of a voicemail that president trumps lawyer left for mike flynns lawyer right before flynn pled gu...

Lawyer. >> hey, rob, this is john again. maybe im -- im sympathetic -- i understand your situation, but let me just see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- well, it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal with and -- i understand that you cant join a joint defense. thats one thing. if, on the other hand, theres information that implicates the president, then weve got a national security issue or maybe a national security issue. i dont know. some issue. weve got to -- ...

It was either the ultimate act of optimism by the queen or a joke for a world in which we all know donald trump is incapable of reading books. with the president in europe today, a federal judge in washington overseeing michael flynns case ordered the release of some of the audio evidence in the obstruction of justice section of the mueller report. here is the recording of a voice mail that will donald trumps lawyer john dowd left for michael flynns attorney on the day that michael flynn with dr...

Kislyak "asked flynn to set up a vtc, a video teleconference between president-elect trump and russian president putin for january 21st of 2017." one day after the inauguration. michael flynn, a reminder, is still awaiting sentencing. today his longtime attorney robert kelner notified the court he was no longer representing michael flynn. prosecutors also released a voicemail left by that same attorney, robert kelner by president trumps one-time personal territory robert dowd. flynn agreed to co...

As well. >> jeffzeleny, thank you so much. this is cnn breaking news. we have breaking news in our politics lead for the first time were hearing the audio of a voice mail from president trumps former lawyer john dowd to his fired national security adviser michael flynns lawyer. a key witness in robert muellers investigation, flynn was. cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz joins me now. were now hearing this voice mail for the first time? >> for the first time, were hearing the presi...

Congressman, jimmy gomez, lets get to another important story that we are following right now. more breaking news on that key voicemail everyday in the mueller investigation that has just been released. our political correspondent sarah purchase ray is jo-- murr joining us. tell us what it suggests. >> this is the first time weve heard about this audio recording. we talked about it. john dowd, formerly an attorney for president trump made to one of michael flynns attorneys, saying essentially we...

Its john dowd, one of the presidents attorneys back in november of 2017, right after michael flynn has decided to start cooperate with the government. and he has some concerns that he wants to raise. lets listen to this tape of the -- of the voice mail. >> hey, rob, this is john again. maybe im sympathetic and understand your situation, but let me see if i can state it in starker terms. if you have -- and it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal and work with the government. i unde...

Complementary of prime minister may and joked that she wants to stick around a little longer, scheduled to step down tomorrow to craft a free-trade deal with the united states so despite getting off to a rocky start, before he left for the uk, that trip to britain was a very good one. it came off very well. in a situation like that when you consider the personalities involved in the volatility of the politics, so many things couldve gone wrong. but so many things with right and it was a good vis...