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For hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. and tim o'brian is the executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and with us from washington, my colleague, ken, who covers intelligence and national security issues for nbc news. ken, let me start with you and ask you what was appealing about this candidate to the president. it wasn't the resume featuring the fudged line about how he was a u.s. attorney, it wasn't about the terrorism prosecutions, that warrant. it was about that meeting in the ray burn building. >> reporter: that will be no surprise to our viewers who follow this issue closely an...

Ago, that there was nothing there on the conspiracy with the russian agents, that it was a bunch of garbage. he could have ended this back then but he chose to effect an election. it was also clear from the hearing today that weissmann must have been the driving force in all of this. >> exactly. exactly. and that, i think that's been clear for a long time but it was crystal clear today. >> yeah, it was. >> congressman thank you for that. >> it is tucker thanks for your clarity. you've seen it all along. >> congressman tom mcclintock of california accused mueller of trying to conduct a politica...

Much broader way than we have ever seen before exactly what the russians were up to during 2014, 2015, 2016 and well into 2017. it's startling in its detail. they took on almost everybody who they perceived to be trump's enemies including cnn. >> and what's interesting to me is they go after mueller, calling it a crack pot investigation and other things in language that is not dissimilar to language the president uses, correct? >> true. you know, some of these researchers said to me, you know, more than a year ago now we have trouble now telling the difference between the russian disinformatio...

Berman. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." in just a couple hours former national security adviser michael flynn will be sentenced for lying to the fbi about his contacts with the russian ambassador during the transition. just moments ago president trump wished him luck. so a brief recap of what i just said seconds ago. someone is pleading guilty to lying to the fbi which is a felony and the president is wishing him luck. overnight we got a better idea of what flynn told the fbi as special counselor robert mueller complied with a judge's office and released a memo with details of the ...

Country, which is considerable. but as for a broader explanation of the political context, i doubt we will hear much of that. >> but i don't think we're going to get what people really want to know which is what else does he know and what else has he told mueller. that's really the mystery. what happened in those -- all those hours and all those interviews and what did he give him that mueller was anxious to tell the court. he gave us what we needed, he was helpful, he shouldn't go to jail. >> yesterday two of his associates were indicted in virginia in a non-mueller case in connection with lo...