obstruction of justice tomorrow, and it will be very interesting to see when director comey comes out of that meeting, what he says about how gowdy was. chuck, you may have heard my complaint earlier that there is a toner shortage crisis going on in american newsrooms because of the dreaded black stripes of redaction. this is by way of asking you for a preview where to set our sights. we have these two different documentary leases tomorrow. tell me they re not going to have black stripes on them, but please tell me what they may contain. i can t tell you they won t have black stripes, brian. here s why. if it s public, it won t contain sensitive information. if it s sensitive information, it won t be made public. look, these sentencing memoranda are filed all over the united states in federal court every day in advance of sentencings. many of them concern a defendant s cooperation and ongoing investigations. if that s what we have here and i assume we do it s not
contain. i can t tell you they won t have black stripes, brian. here s why. if it s public, it won t contain sensitive information. if it s sensitive information, it won t be made public. look, these sentencing memoranda are filed all over the united states in federal court every day in advance of sentencings. many of them concern a defendant s cooperation and ongoing investigations. if that s what we have here and i assume we do it s not going to be all that interesting. there is going to be a lot more black ink on the papers that you re reading tomorrow, brian, than you might prefer. there goes the toner. and, mieke, do you concur with this ongoing theory, that the mueller report just might be nothing more than the sum total of all the documents related to all the charges that mueller
have been close to if not at the top of mueller s list of questions that he wanted to ask after flynn started to cooperate. and we have to stop for a minute and think about what flynn has been charged with. he s been charged with making false statements to the government. so mueller s not taking any of his words at face value. and we see from the sentencing memoranda that flynn was able to provide documents and also communications. and so at this point it seems logical to assume that however mueller has answered that question, he s not just relying on what flynn tells him, he s relying on documentary evidence that flynn can provide as well to back up the story he s told. we have to squeeze in a break here. thank you for starting us off tonight. and when we come back, did michael flynn talk to the special prosecutor about the trump family, and what could he have told them about donald
was interested in doing business in moskow and creating a trump tower in moskow and was presumably still interested in doing that while he was president of the united states. that question would probably have been close to if not at the top of mueller s list of questions that he wanted to ask after flynn started to cooperate. and we have to stop for a minute and think about what flynn has been charged with. he s been charged with making false statements to the government. so mueller s not taking any of his words at face value. and we see from the sentencing memoranda that flynn was able to provide documents and also communications. and so at this point it seems logical to assume that however mueller has answered that question, he s not just relying on what flynn tells him, he s relying on documentary evidence that flynn can provide as well to back up the story he s told. we have to squeeze in a break here. thank you for starting us off tonight. and when we come back, did michael
some 19 times. he s also mueller has pushed back flynn s sentencing at least four times. what does that tell you about flynn s cooperation? well, to me, wolf, the key is the combination of the 19 meetings and the declaration in the filing that he s provided valuable information. i mean you could imagine meeting 19 times if someone was resisting you and not providing information and it took 19 meetings to kind of break them down, but if someone is cooperating, it doesn t take 19 meetings for them to explain that nothing unusual happened, right? i mean there isn t enough to talk about over 19 meetings if nothing unusual happened. i think the fact that the conversations were so extensive and from mueller s view so productive, it is that, i think, equation that should make this so create such unease in the president s camp. you know, laura, you cover the justice department for us. the sentencing memoranda, pretty