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Entirety of the american people, not just democrats? >> the memo here involving michael flynn, it's clear again from bob costa and phil rucker's piece that's something that concerns a lot of republicans as well. you look at what's enumerated there and she sat down with the special counsel, 17, 19 times, that's a lot of times with federal prosecutors. yes, a lot of that was redacted, but help us understand how concerned folks should be what was not in to our eyes the memo about michael flynn? >> well, i think the administration should be more and more concerned not only based on what we have le...

Damaging to the country as it gets. when you look at the cohen memos and it talks about how he apparently was circulating, i think was the word that was used, circulating his false draft testimony before congress -- now, we don't yet know who he was circulating it to, he was conspiring with him to provide that false narrative about the budding moskow project, and then i think there's some things in the memos about how the executives from the corporation, ie, those are the trump children were also perhaps involved. >> you are watching jared kushner and don junior involved as well. >> ever tight...

From the paul manafort and the cohen memos, not that there could not be something that is useful, but when you look at what happened with michael flynn, this will be heavily redacted, what will we learn other than the fact that he was happy with the cooperation. i'm happy that you are happy with the cooperation. but what does that mean? we did not get that with flynn, i do not see why we will get that. >> melissa: i think one of the things that i'm looking forward to hear is maybe we get some idea of where the relationship broke down, because i want to know, as you have more and more people co...

Barr, the timing of it. you would think that the white house would realize that if this is a confirmation hearing that happens next month, the mueller question is going to dominate the confirmation hearing. why then would they choose to nominate barr now before the mueller report is out? >> yeah, i mean, it's a good question. can we really ever determine the motivations of this white house. i think that something that's safe to say is they tend to put out big news like this when they want to distract from other things. of course today is a really big day for the mueller investigation. they may...

Are. but if they deal with the central question of russian collusion, then we may see a memo that is not unlike the flynn memo, highly redacted. i think with respect to the cohen memos, we're probably going to get a good bit of public information about the nature, the extent and the value of michael cohen's cooperation with both the special counsel and the prosecutors up in the southern district of new york. >> but, sam, even with the redactions we saw in the documents, the scope of the investigation you could get a feel for and you could see that michael flynn is involved in more than one inv...