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Can you make some sense of this? >> isn't it training to think, many months ago when flynn came before the judge and the judge said i should let you cooperate a little more, otherwise, i may give you jail time, that flynn might have been better off taking that jail time. because now, if he's backing out, he's essentially breaching that plea agreement. if you look back at flynn's original charges, yes, his sentencing guidelines range is zero to six months. so it's likely he will be sentenced within that range, but the statutory maximum for this crime is five years. so if this plea agreement wer...

York was telling this court today, don't go easy on this guy. he didn't cooperate as much as he could have. do you have any sense what it was that cohen did not provide? what aspects of the inv investigation this might cover? >> reporter: we don't know what aspects of this investigation or other investigations. that's really the thread here that matters. michael cohen decided that he wanted to cooperate, clear his name, as it related to donald trump. as it related to the special counsel's office. he also decided that he didn't want to go forward with the standard cooperation process in the sou...

Dann danny? >> that is right. and just to piggyback on lanny davis' comments. i agree with what mimi said earlier with you that i don't believe that lanny davis fully understands the cooperation process, but guy petrullo absolutely does. he made a comment in court today and he made several comments critical of the southern district process and at one point he said facetiously about the cooperation process that the southern district uses that it has been given to us by the minor gods and woe to those who fail to follow the scriptures and so he was quite harsh in what he said, and he later said ...

That the government has evidence of but any other crimes that they may have committed. >> back to the time they were 2 years old. >> literally if you stole a candy bar from the drugstore when you were 16 you have to tell the government that. you won't necessarily plead guilty to that because it's not a federal crime, but you may have to plead guilty to additional federal crimes that you volunteer to the government. it's the way that this cooperation process works in the southern district, and it is a little different tan the way that bob mueller and the special counsel's office seems to be ope...

Years old. >> literally if you stole a candy bar from the drugstore when you were 16 you have to tell the government that. you won't necessarily plead guilty to that because it's not a federal crime, but you may have to plead guilty to additional federal crimes that you volunteer to the government. oats the way that this cooperation process works in the southern district, and it is a little different tan the way that bob mueller and the special counsel's office seems to be operating where they're willing to take people's cooperation and they're willing to either dismiss counts like they did wi...