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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...

Court filings offered no explanation as to why the lawyers were terminated and revealed their information client has already retained new lawyers. the move comes as a federal judge prepares to sentence flynn for pleading guilty about lying about his conversations. according to politico flynns decision at this late stage is unusual and has triggered speculation hes considering backing out of a plea deal he struck with robert muellers team. flynn previously argued that muellers team used deceptive...

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 -- ...

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 -- weve got to deal with not only the presid...

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...

Joey jackson, let me play the audio of this voice mail. listen closely to this. >> i can understand your situation but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. we need some kind of heads-up just for the sake of protecting all interests, if we can. without you having to give up any confidential information. remember what weve always said about the president and his feelings toward fl...

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...

Opposite is true. if michael flynn lied about his contacts with the russians, thats the threat to national security. once again another example of people in trumps world putting trumps interests over the interests of the united states. >> we just got that audio. lets take a listen. this is the presidents lawyer leaving a voicemail for mike flynns lawyer. here it is. >> hey, rob, um, this is john again. um, maybe i -- i -- im sympathetic, i understand your situation, but let me see if i cant stat...

Again. uh, maybe i -- i -- i -- im sympathetic and i understand your situation. but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- it wouldnt surprise me if youd gone on to make a deal with -- uh, with the government. i understand that you cant join -- if on the other hand, well, 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 deal with. not only for the president bu...

Conversations and contacts with former russian ambassador sergey kislyak, he was -- this phone call, this voicemail was left for his lawyer. rob, this is john again, thats john dowd, im sympathetic, i understand your situation but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. it wouldnt surprise me if youd gone on to make a deal with the government. if theres information that implicates the president we have a national security issue so, you know, we need some kinds of heads up just for the sa...