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Resisting a subpoena from the grand jury that's working with mueller. today we got a ruling in that case. it does seem still like -- sort of like a mystery. what do you make of this ruling? >> we know what it's not, right. we had surmised it could be executive privilege questions, or a subpoena of an individual in the trump white house. it seems to be more mundane. seems to be a subpoena, maybe to a bank or some state-owned entity. >> some sort of corporation that's owned by country "a." >> that's right. but because it's a grand jury matter, it still remains under seal. the court told us about...

Lied to the fbi? kelner, the defense attorney, no, your honor. the references that i mention that appear in your sentencing memorandum raise some concerns on the part of the court. and my question is, how is raising those contentions about the circumstances under which mr. flynn lied consistent with his acceptance of responsibility? later on in the proceedings, this is where flynn's lawyer essentially decides to take responsibility for that himself and basically apologize to the court for having raised it. the judge says, quote, let -- excuse me. the defense lawyer says to the judge, let me ma...

Treason had nothing to do with anything that he said in his 19 interviews with the prosecutors. charging michael flynn with treason was impossible from the start. russia is not an enemy of the united states as identified in a declaration of war against russia. we are giving aid and comfort to russia every day. every coca-cola executive would be guilty of treason if giving aid and comfort to russia was a crime, because coca-cola has been giving aid and comfort to russia for decades now. but treason is the place where so many minds go, including trained legal minds, when they look at the activit...

But, amazingly, that consensus view of the defense and the prosecution is not what happened today. again, we will get expert advice on this in just a moment, but this just turned into a train wreck for mike flynn, and more broadly for supporters of the president, particularly in conservative media and on capitol hill who had tried to turn elements of the mueller investigation into some sort of indictment of the fbi, into some sort of scandal about the fbi and law enforcement. that took a major hit today. i mean, this was -- this was just a -- i mean, we knew there was a little element of unpre...

Security adviser, somebody in the trump administration asked the justice department to please look into doing that, please look into extraditing that guy. and so, i don't know if the judge needed to apologize today, but, bottom line, in february, 2017, before mike flynn was fired, somebody in the trump administration tried to deliver on what mike flynn had secretly been paid to deliver as an agent of the turkish government. joining us now is one of the reporters who first uncovered that, who has been chasing that ever since. julia ainsley, nbc national securty and justice reporter back with us...