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Shaking the rattle. he is saying look out, because he is prepared to give him a sentence in prison and strongly suggesting that the defense take the hint and delay this sentence to see if there is more cooperating that they can do. the judge has clearly signaled that he is not buying the recommendation that the joint recommendation really of the defense and the prosecution of zero jail time based on flynns cooperation. the judge said it is a serious offense for a government official to lie no th...

Administration delve deeper into the conspiracy theories and the strange ties with russia, and as you say, emerge under investigation. it is worth taking back and we are focused on the judge and how extraordinary this is that it is the national security adviser to the president of the united states and arguably the second most important person in the nation responsible for tr security, and the reason that the judge is frustrated is that he lied about the contacts with the russian ambassador abou...

The white house, one rule that you are careful to keep is to not comment on ongoing independent legal matters. the president of the united states when it was barack obama was very careful not the comment, and influence the ongoing legal matters, but we have seen this president just donald trump blow through the norms as it relates to commenting on the investigation, and we have seen him actively trying to undermine the independence of the investigation s and trying to mettle, and by saying that ...

But it is within the judges per view, and within his job to do that and to the look at everything. so it is -- then again, the judge may know that there are matters that flynn, you know, he has not cooperated on that he could have, and again, we dont know everything that the judge knows. i think that, you know, that he may be really just trying to get flynn to sort of stay with the program, if you will. >> and ben rhodes, out in california, who has been with s us. as a former national security o...

President. what happens struck me with michael flynn is that trump has always treated him with kid gloves compared to others, comey, michael cohen, where he has gone hot and cold. he is very concerned with what michael flynn has to say about him. and i suspect that has to do with the fact that michael flynn was his national security adviser. that brings whatever interactions were inappropriate about russia, russian policy, about turkish policy. that brings it into the oval office. its not someth...

Extraordinary, and he was not asking them to look into something that had not been investigated. he was asking the justice department to basically come up with agulen, and found we should not extradite him. then a new national security adviser comes in, who is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the turkish government that wants gulen and hes going to the justice department saying you should take another look at this. you cannot have a better definition of corruption on a very serious...

And kilner was communicating that to the court. again, theyre deciding its the better part of valor to wait another day, delay the sentencing because clearly they were afraid of what might happen if the judge passed sentence on mike flynn today. andrea? >> jonathan capehart has joined us at the table as well. quite a moment, defense deciding to accept the judges offer to delay sentencing because clearly he was going to come down with the hammer on mike flynn. >> yeah. this is a pretty extraordin...

Sanction, and so we are come a long way since then. i agree with carol that flynns lawyers did something bizarre. the table was set for a sentencing process and flynns counsel and the lawyers and he had done exactly what was asked of him, and in this 11th hour memo, was he manipulated into lying in the initial statement by the judge, i have never had a defendant coming before me who was pleading guilty and at the same time suggesting that he was not guilty, and that is obviously infuriated the j...