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Actually right to rebuke defense counsel for positing, all right, that flynn was entrapped, that flynn was set up, that flynn didn't know what he was doing. that struck me as a defense argument as a bridge too far, rachel. that said, the government decided that general flynn's cooperation was finished. they were the ones who met with him 19 times. they were comfortable making that substantial assistance downward departure motion. when mr. van greck was asked, is there anything more you can do? the answer was, well, yeah, you know, sort of, we'll try, we'll see what we can do. but the real answ...

Product of entrapment or he was ambushed or boxed in. but we also saw the judge propose a resolution to this matter effectively, in which flynn has to go back and offer more in terms of cooperation in order to balance the scales more in his own favor before he's sentenced. what did you make of those? >> i thought the judge was actually right to rebuke defense counsel for positing, all right, that flynn was entrapped, that flynn was set up, that flynn didn't know what he was doing. that struck me as a defense argument as a bridge too far, rachel. that said, the government decided that general f...

Uncertainty. it's something that's reasonable. but that would be a concern. however what you don't know, kristen, is how many jurors are concerned about that. it could be on one or two. it could be on ten counts. we don't know if they reached a verdict on certain counts. it's all uncertain. >> is one required to file a fbar? so basically file it in your tax reforms. >> that's right, that gets back to what gates was testifying about and the defense argument of gates was controlling these foreign filings. gates was controlling these foreign accounts. and the defendant is not obligated to file it...

The judge ordered them to ignore that. you can't unhear things in real life. this is all an unfair prosecution by big bad robert mueller who shouldn't have that job in the first place. the fact the defense went there anyway knowing the jury would be instructed to ignore it tells you something about how strong they think their defense argument was. there's a lot of legal things related to the special counsel's office. the federal appeal trying to protect this guy, andrew miller from having to testify to the special counsel's grand jury about his connections to roger stone, that federal appeal i...

Department of justice's motives or lack of motives in bringing this prosecution. the defense knew before they tried to slip that in, in their closing argument, they were prohibited from making that argument. they tried it before, argued in front of the judge. they knew they weren't allowed to bring it in front of the judge but they did it anyway. which kind of makes it seem like an act of desperation. the judge, after they made this case, manafort is only being president because of the special counsel, the judge thereafter told the jurors to ignore what they heard. but in real life, you can't ...