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Michael flynn has provided, quote, substantial assistance to the russia investigation and should not get jail time. that's the big news from special counsel robert mueller's court filing on tuesday night. now the filing, a sentencing memo, comes after flynn has cooperated with mueller's team for more than a year. sitting for 19 interviews with the special counsel and other justice department offices. the memo appears to show that flynn help the justice department with at least three ongoing investigations. references to two of the investigations are almost completely redacted. flynn also coope...

>> republican senators furious after a cia briefing on the jamal khashoggi murder. the relationship now with riyadh under renewed scrutiny. good morning and welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is wednesday, december 5th. exactly 5:00 a.m. in the east. and we start with robert mueller recommending no jail time for president trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn because of, quote, substantial help in the russia probe. much of what flynn told the special counsel remains shrouded in secrecy. the report was heavily redacted, but mueller says, q...

National security adviser, michael barks of substantial help in the russia probe. much of what flynn told the special counsel remains shrouded in secrecy. the report was heavily redacted, but mueller says, quote, flynn's early cooperation convinced others to be forthcoming and that flynn's lies about his contacts with the russian ambassador in late 2016 were repeated by senior trump transition team members. >> flynn's full account of events has been one of the best-kept secrets in washington as mueller puts together the final pieces of his case. more now from cnn's sara murray in washington. >...

Placed. michael flynn met with the special counsel or doj attorneys 19 times. >> 19 times. >> 19 times. >> that is a lot. >> is that unusual? >> i tried to think back -- i was prosecutor for 14 years. i thought, did i ever meet with any one cooperator 19 times? maybe for trial -- that's an awful lot of times to meet with a cooperates. he also -- cooperator. he also postponed meetings 14 times. and you put it up as many times as you think a judge will tolerate it. >> fit this into the big picture. when you look at who surrounded the president, michael cohen, george ppapadopoulos, fit this into ...

Most recent filing prior to this? >> yes, jim. i think there is a couple things at play. i do think mueller was trying to do his best to not do anything explosive. i think mueller is being tactical. for every piece of information mueller puts out there, some of the witnesses adjust their story accordingly. you want to hold close for as long as you can properly and appropriately any information you have. we saw that potentially last week when mueller waited until he got his written answers from trump before announcing the new cohen plea, for example. so, yeah, i do think that's what mueller was...