Nbc news confirmed over the Holiday Weekend former National Security adviser mike flynns legal team has cut ties with trumps, widely considered by experts as the first sign that flynn may be cooperating with muellers prosecutors. Now abc does not cite its sources and nbc news has not independent by verified the story. They report this, however, the lawyer for president Donald Trumps former National Security adviser michael t. Flynn met monday morning with members of special counsel Robert Muellers team. The laidest indication that both sides are discussing a possible deal. It also marked the deadline for his soninlaw to turn over documents requested by the Senate Judiciary committee. The Committee Said they did not expect to get them today. The Washington Post took an indepth look at kushners work indepth look at kushners work in the white house. The headline from our friend Ashley Parker reads the shrinking profile of jared kushner. It says in the body of the piece, his oncesprawling
Extraordinarily reckless to release the memo we know that the fbi says it has grave concerns about the content of that memo being made public. What do you think . Whats going to happen today . Well im sure the president is going to re lease the memo. He said, he said he would. And he was saying he was going to do it even before he read the memo. Acting like the republicans on the committee who said we must release this memo. They hadnt even read the memo. They havent read whats underlying the memo. So willie, youre talking about how right now the president only has about a third of the country behind him. The republicans are having one chairman after another, one member in a swing district after another, decide to drop out of congress. Im curious, are these guys even thinking about what the American People are going to think . About there are a lot of things that divide us, but when you have the fbi and Donald Trumps own Justice Department saying its extraordinarily reckless to release
This hour, ill speak with former u. S. Attorney, preet bharara. First, lets go to sarah murray with more on the papadopoulos sentencing. He got two weeks in prison and a fine. Thats right, wolf. It seems the judge did really believe George Papadopoulos felt bald for lying to investigators and so he will be incarcerated, but not for long. Tonight, George Papadopoulos, a former Foreign Policy adviser to the Trump Campaign, sentenced to two weeks in prison and a 9500 fine. Papadopoulos expressing regret for lying to investigators about his kremlin linked contacts, telling the judge, people point and snicker and i am terribly depressed. His lawyer argued for leniency, saying his client was nay eve and a fool. Its a rigell witch hunt. But claiming trumps comments had done more to harm the investigation than his clients lies. The 31yearold, now the first member of the president s team to be sentenced as part of the russia vest xwags and the whus and its allies had been b eager to down play p
Called vague intelligence about an unfully formed plot against the Baghdad Embassy and not ability multiple embassies. Joining us now from tel aviv is Foreign Correspondent matt bradley, from toronto nbcs erin mclaughlin, and daily beast political reporter and an msnbc contributor. Matt, lets start with you in the region. Whats the latest reaction to irans admission that they accidentally shot down that ukrainian plane and what kind of response should we expect in the coming hours . I think here in the middle east, obviously this has really pulled the carpet out from under the iranians as far as theyre getting the upper hand morally and tactically against the United States. Say what you will about President Trumps impetuous decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani, but no civilians have been killed, at least not in this latest rounds. Now the iranians, not only were they embarrassed by the lack of damage their counter strike did against american targets in iraq, but now they have to ex