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To. flynn lies about both of those conversations to the fbi. if the fbi is worried about russia having compromised flynn, once they get these false statements from him, not only is he committing another crime by lying to them about it, this is a counterintelligence emergency, he has been lying and russia knows it. having leverage like that over a national security adviser, that's a catastrophe. in addition the defendant made false statements to the fbi about his prior interactions with the russian government, in december 2016, concerning a pending u.n. security council resolution. the false st...

Memory of a conversation in which russia had aseeded due to flynn's request. in other words, flynn said don't respond to these obama sanctions, don't worry, we're going to be different. he has a subsequent conversation with the russian ambassador, we didn't respond to those sanctions booze you told us not to. flynn lies about both of those conversations to the fbi. if the fbi is worried about russia having compromised flynn, once they get these false statements from him, not only is he committing another crime by lying to them about it, this is a counter intelligence emergency. he has been lyi...

Flynn gave first hand information about the context interactions between the transition team and russian government officials and that kind of thing could overlap with what kushner has been up to. they worked in tandem and not just on anything. we know they worked on issues involving russia. they were together in that early part of december 2016 meeting in trump tower with the russian ambassador discussing how to set up, among other thing, a secret back channel to moscow. why would you need one of those? it was kushner who told to discuss u.n. sanctions with russian officials. flynn did lie ab...

Said there were no contacts. that claim has been belied by what we have learned since then, that there were repeated contacts at multiple levels. and i just -- you know, so folks at home understand why the need to be misleading about that, if the contacts were innocent. what was the motivation for not being forthcoming about this early on, which would have removed a lot of these legal troubles. for instance, if michael flynn had not lied about contacts with the russian ambassador during december 2016 about key policy issues, u.s. sanctions on russia, he would not face a federal crime here. >> ...

Fourth quarter, climactic end game. >> fourth quarter. >> fourth quarter. >> we'll see. >> seems like it's been a long game. everyone read michael isikoff's piece. it's fascinating. thank you, michael and page. >> i want to bring in cnn political commentator and president trump's former legislative director marc short. >> thanks for having me on, jim. >> i always think it's important on stories like this to go big picture because it's hard to follow the kind of day-by-day, but just so folks at home can understand what the big picture is here, what michael cohen testified to last week was in ef...