satisfied the special counsel. they come in and say we re not going to recommend we re going to recommend he serve no prison time. everything seems to be going right in the life of michael flynn to the extent the life of michael flynn can go right under the circumstances. he s headed in the right direction. all of a sudden now as frank suggests, he seems to be provoking the special prosecutor. i don t really understand what the game is. people think he s angling for a pardon, but it seems really unwise to be doing these things and seems the special counsel is saying, back off, jack, or you ll get yourself in some kind of trouble more than you re already in. yeah, i don t think he was angling for a pardon here. i think this was a little bit of a miscalculation. the sentencing judge is known as a bit of a wild card. in their sentencing document, flynn s lawyers were trying to give the judge plenty of reason to differentiate their client from others who pleaded guilty to 1,001, faking
going to testify, be called to testify before your committee again? well, i certainly think he should be. remember, the committee hasn t been reconstituted. it will be in january. but he should be for two reasons. number one, of course, he pled guilty to lying to congress, so it would be great to get back to congress to say okay, exactly where else or where did you lie so we have a good clean sense of what the facts are, and of course, from the standpoint of the intelligence committee, the other really important thing is in the sentencing document, we learned that there were contacts by russia to michael cohen as early as 2015. that, of course, is very much in the purview of the intelligence committee so we have a full picture of the many, many efforts that russia made to get their tentacles into the trump campaign. do you think he needs to testify publicly? well, i think it s always valuable when these interviews are done publicly. michael cohen doesn t have classified informati
meadows so we see the president really unsure who his team is going to be. we have a tape. obviously cohen was wired. he shows the president whether to pay in cash or check, the whole deal. they re totally intimate on this. how could he say he wasn t involved? you have a sentencing document that individual one how does it look to you, folks up on the hill? you re going in with power. it looks like pelosi is going to be speaker, you re going to be able to impeach this president if you want to. can you do it? i think we re going to wait until the mueller investigation is complete before we take any action in that regard. meanwhile, we have investigations that need to be
be a felon, but he is a good felon, and he has been so helpful to prosecutors, he just shouldn t go to prison. just as we were getting on the air, we got notice from the official court docket in flynn s case that that document has now been filed. it s not yet obtainable. we can t yet grab it off the docket, but we are in the process of obtaining it right this second, basically by praying to the internet gods that control these things. so, we think we re going to have that flynn sentencing memo imminently. certainly while we re on the air. we re getting some expert help to try to parse that might mean. while we re trying to download the flynn sentencing document, remember how we got here. it wasn t even one month into the new trump administration when flynn had to resign from the white house, right? and then we soon learned from sally yates in unbelievably dramatic congressional testimony that just a few days after trump
and so they aren t even sure whether they agree with that or not. they may not even push back against it. now they have until january 7th which is a much longer timeline than we were expecting, in order to figure out what kind of evidence the prosecution has and to talk with their client, which raises questions, has their client, paul manafort, been completely forthcoming with them? okay, mr. costa, on the eve of the cohen sentencing, and let s remember in keeping with custom, i believe cohen will be given the chance to stand and speak for himself tomorrow in federal court. here s the president dismissing these payments as a civil matter. i m four feet away from a former fed who would say she s not having it, it s a felony what you re talking about. does anyone in that white house, do you think, agree with donald trump? at this point, people inside of this white house are concerned about the mueller report, which they don t know much about, and with regard to cohen and the associat