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George papadopoulos, a relative neophyte in the business of campaigning, the business of politics and certainly knew nothing about the law. michael flynn is a former senior intelligence official, ran the intelligence agency and then as the audacity to turn around and say, oh, gee, i didn't know it was improper to lie to the fbi. nobody warned me. i mean, that was so offensive to judge sullivan that, you know, he was throwing the brick back at flynn. >> so another message that the judge had for flynn, which was interesting, was that, listen, the more you cooperate going forward, the better for ...

Troops in afghanistan. we have to protect our embassy, we have a counterterrorism platform that's useful in pakistan. et cetera. so obama didn't go down that road. and, in fact, trump is -- you know, if the reports are correct, we're going down to 7,000, that's not a particularly large force, obviously, but enough to protect the embassy. enough to carry out some kind of terrorism operations. and it is his purgative as commander in chief to do this. >> you're a former intelligence official, operative, whatever you want to call it. it's probably fair to say that even if u.s. troops will not be i...

It began with an offer for dirt, and by many accounts, ended up as a frustrating 20-minute conversation about sanctions and adoptions. so what were the russians up to? the man who set it up has a theory. >> so do you agree with national security officials both prior and current who believe that this meeting was a probe set up by the russian government, of the trump campaign? >> i have always looked at it as a bait and switch. >> goldstone says he thinks the offer of incriminating information was made just to get in the room. >> but it was a dirty offer. >> yes. >> it was a dirty offer that the...

And former intelligence official, believe that this meeting was essentially a test, by the russian intelligence services, to see how the trump team would respond. >> when you tell someone, we have dirt, you're testing the waters, to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. >> if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer, natali veselnitskaya was a russian operative? she was asked in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. >> you said your relationship with the prosecutor job is what?...

Flynn under oath, which is not normal at a hearing like this, to get him to say yes nark, in he's pleading guilty and no, he wasn't duped by the fbi. that's one message. the second is he's very disturbed by michael flynn's conduct, including the conduct he wasn't charged with, the secret lobbying for the government of turkey. that was the context of you sold out your country and even used the word treason, kind of walked that back after the recess. and he also brought up david petraeus, former cia director. he said he disagreed with the light sentence petraeus got. what i took from that is mic...