Whether Cooperation News Today

Question of whether or not he should continue to be the judge in this case? >> i think he gave the defense an argument. im not sure theyre going to take him up on it, but he gave them an argument that he shouldnt be the sentencing judge. now, thats a risky strategy. they would have to ask that he be recused. if he said no, and they couldnt change it, theyre really stuck, arent they? i think whats going to happen going forward is the prosecutors will put together a more fulsome, more compelling c...

Quote, we would like to request a continuance of sentencing, your honor. and so, flynns cooperation with the government will continue and his case, the sentencing in his case, will be continued for another few months. hell be back presumably sometime in march to go before this judge again and talk it over again, maybe under circumstances that wouldnt make the judge explode in front of an open courtroom about how he feels about mike flynns behavior. now, the legal rationale from the judge today f...

Offenses. they asserted to the court that in fact mike flynn committed serious crimes, but they said that is outweighed by what a great cooperator he has been, helping them with all these other cases. and the judge today was you know however good hes been as a cooperator, youre going to need to add some more cooperation to that side of the scale to balance out his crimes, because his climbs to my mind are unbelievably bad. so hes definitely shocking mike flynn and his defense lawyers today. he a...

Helping them with all these other cases. and the judge today was like, you know, however good hes been as a cooperator, youre going to need to add some more cooperation to that side of the scale to balance out his crimes, because his climbs to my mind are unbelievably bad. so hes definitely shocking mike flynn and his defense lawyers today. he also seems to sort of be shocking the prosecutors. and heres where we got some of the news that was made today, made in open court. so, this is the judge ...

Prosecutor brandon van grack, your honor, it remains a possibility that general flynn is continuing to cooperate with the government at this time. the judge says, all right, its a possibility? mr. van grack, yes, your honor. the judge, more often than not, the court will wait until this person has finished. this person has testified in the grand jury or pleas entered. there is nothing else he can do to help us. but in this case there is still a likelihood that he could help, correct? the prosecu...

Baseball, fade into the background. they make calls, they get most right. they get a few wrong, but you dont really see them playing the game, and thats what i thought judge sullivan did today. he brought up some things that i thought were simply intemperate. it sounded more like he wanted to be a prosecutor than a judge, questioning the charging strategy, holding the prosecutors to account for why he was getting the deal he got, whether cooperation was finished, whether he should have been char...

So michael flynn in the end doesnt get sentenced today. flynns lawyer finally says, quote, we would like to request a continuance of sentencing, your honor. and so flynns cooperation with the government will continue and his case, the sentencing in his case will be continued for another few months. hell be back presumably some time in march to go before this judge again and talk it over again, maybe under circumstances that wouldnt make the judge explode in front of an open courtroom about how h...

Product of entrapment or he was ambushed or boxed in. but we also saw the judge propose a resolution to this matter effectively, in which flynn has to go back and offer more in terms of cooperation in order to balance the scales more in his own favor before hes sentenced. what did you make of those? >> i thought the judge was actually right to rebuke defense counsel for positing, all right, that flynn was entrapped, that flynn was set up, that flynn didnt know what he was doing. that struck me a...

Cooperation that flynn has offered to the special counsel, the cases that he has helped with. the judge has also seen the fbis unredacted notes about their interactions with flynn and about him lying to the fbi. and we really do not know as members of the public whats behind those black redacting bars. but who knows? maybe whats behind those black bars is what contributed to this judge going off like a volcano today about the seriousness and the terribleness of mike flynns behavior. im going to ...

Information, or if i begin to discuss something nonpublic, dont be shy in telling me. my clerks over the years have learned to do this. and because we just got a transcript, he makes some sort of gesture. if i get off the script or get into areas, i wont be offended. i may not see you. so stand up or say something. i dont want to unintentionally say something that should not be revealed on the public docket. so this is right at the outset of todays hearing, and this is a really good reminder rig...