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Members, could that bite him? could flynn's lawyers maybe use that against trump's team? >> yeah, they can say that listen, in response let's say listen, he made one mistake, he said something untrue, but the president himself trusted him enough to be trusted with the most important national security secrets that america has. that would be his defense in response to his character attack. >> julie: earlier this month the president didn't rule out a possibility of pardoning flynn. is that still a possibility? >> i think so. and you've had michael flynn's brother tweet at the president and asking...

Preparing to go on the offensive again ready to attack the credibility of michael flynn. flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and is thought to be cooperating with the investigation. we're now joined by john mccormack senior writer for "the weekly standard". he has to be cooperating with the investigation because of a plea deal. he won't get a plea deal unless he is receiving massive amounts of information. what information is 24r? >> we don't know that yet. the trump legal team is willing to sort of go after flynn both by dangling a carrot in front of him and presenting a stick to thre...

Floating this argument, floating this potential character attack means at the very least they're concerned that he has something that he -- there has been a lot of speculation that because this plea deal was so light that his son was not charged with anything that he is willing to go forward and testify and provide perhaps documentation. but again that will be one of the big questions of 2018 is to see what michael flynn says, what he has, what he knows. >> julie: first of all, what he says, what he knows. the question is does he know anything? flynn's agreement with mueller had to promise som...

Next year because this is just an unpopular bill and the republicans have yet to sell this to the american people. it's really hard to sell something that is bad, jim. really hard. >> for the life of me i can't understand why the democrats want to run against republicans on the tax cuts when they have so much other material. the russia investigation, me too, all of donald trump's character issues and you want to run against the tax cuts. good luck. >> we ran against donald trump -- >> democrats need an economic message along with a character attack. i think hillary clinton tried to run against...

Stage of that may be the tax returns and sort of linking that issue to russia and arguing trump has something to hide. >> and lisa, any reaction yet from congressional democratic leadership? >> congressional democratic leadership is taking a stand on this issue as well and i think they see the writing on the walt that this is something that the public cares about. 75% of americans across party lines want to see trump's returns. so actually just this week democrats filed a discharge petition on the presidential tax transparency act which would require not only trump's retur but also all future ...