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I understand your situation. let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal. if on the other hand, there is information that implicates the president, then weve got a national security issue. we need some kind of heads up. >> remember what was always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn and that still remains. >> good evening to all of you. margaret, youve been covering a lot of these characters over the years. rarely do y...

Judge had ordered be made public. flynn who cooperated with the special counsels investigation is awaiting sentencing for lying to the fbi about his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak after the u.s. imposed sanctions for russian meddling in the 2016 electi election. >> prosecutors did release the full transcript of a november 2017 voice mail revealing that president trumps former lawyer, his former outside lawyer john dowd told an attorney for michael flynn to tell the trump leg...

License to this this is a voice mail by john doud youll forgive me there is stuttering hey, rob this is john again, maybe im sympathetic i understand your situation but let me see see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- and it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. i understand that you cant join the joint defense. so thats one thing. if on the other hand we have -- there is information that implicates the president, then weve go...

John dowd voicemail -- >> can i interrupt you with a dramatic reading especially for those who grew up in the new york area listening to gambino recordings -- >> yes. >> -- in the fish club, people should listen to this this way. this is a voicemail left by john dowd and youll forgive me because theres stuttering written in as part of this. "hey, rob, this is john again, maybe im sympathetic, i understand your situation but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- and it wo...

Now that we have the full transcript, it does paint a clearer picture of how the presidents attorney was in fact calling over to mike flynn, calling flynns lawyers to ask what flynn knew about the president. and what he was going to tell prosecutors about the president and how flynn should know how the president felt about him. i mean, it does not change the tone, but we get more of it. quote, i understand your situation, but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. who talks like that? i...

Unredacting the mueller report. well today was the deadline for prosecutors to hand that stuff over. and it kind of didnt happen. the first one happened. prosecutors did turn over the full transcript of that voice mail from president presidents lawyer we now know is john dowd. now that we have the full transcript it does paint an even chlorer picture of how the presidents attorney was in fact calling over to mike flynn calling flynns lawyers to ask what flynn knew about the president. and what h...

That flynn was going to plead guilty and become a cooper. we had seen bits and he ises of the transcript of that voice mail in the mueller report. in the section on potential criminal obstruction of justice by the president. the pieces of the transcript in the mueller report read -- and i remember reporting this at the time right after the report came out -- that voice mail read like a kind of mafiaesque threat to michael flynn through his attorney saying hey, we know youre going to cooperate. w...

Call. >> this was a voice message sent to michael flynns attorney. that attorney turned it over to the special counsels office because there was some concern that people perhaps inside the trump administration perhaps even the presidents own lawyer was somehow trying to influence michael flynns cooperation. and let me read this. its a lengthy voice mail. im just going to read it to you. it starts out with a call from john dowd to rob kelner. he says this is john again. maybe im sympathetic, i un...

Out, that voice mail read like a kind of mafia-esque threat to michael flynn through his attorney saying, hey, we know what youre cooperate. we want to know what youre going to give them on the president. the or else was silent, but it was implied. it literally starts with the presidents lawyer saying, let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. have you ever had like a pleasant conversation, a nonthreatening conversation with somebody that started that way? maybe if you had a painter. i cou...

York area listening to gambino recordings -- >> yes. >> -- in the fish club, people should listen to this this way. this is a voicemail left by john dowd and youll forgive me because theres stuttering written in as part of this. "hey, rob, this is john again, maybe im sympathetic, i understand your situation but let me see if i cant state it in starker terms. if you have -- and it wouldnt surprise me if youve gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. uh, i understand that you ...