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Communication between and among republicans is possibly at a low point in the course of this shut down. it stems from that meeting where vice president pence was behind the 69s with senate leaders and from their perspective assures them the president would sign that short-term bill that the senate passed. mitch mcconnell said that's what's going to happen. think of that as a breech of trust and misunderstanding and communication that left mitch mcconnell on the outside of this process. it left increasing discontent on the house side. the problem is obviously that to a certain extent this is in...

Years of service would be another mitigating factor, and this is a man who rose to the heights of military intelligence in afghanistan and became the head of the intelligence agency and fired by general clapper and barack obama because they p felt that he was a bad manager and not working out for him once with he was promoted to the the post which led to a lot of his bitterness as well, and how much of that led to him going to are russia and seen sitting across from vladimir putin and then accepting this a offer from the erdogan are regime, and you have been digging deeply into the turkish con...

Mitigating factors, this is not a mitigating factor. "nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused him to make false statements to the fbi on january 24." then they give us context. here's the context. "the defendant chose to make false statements about his communications with the russian ambassador weeks before the fbi interview when he lied about that topic to the media. the incoming vice president and other members of the presidential transition team. when faced with the fbi's questions on january 24 during an interview that was voluntary and cordial, the defendant r...

And potentially lifting sanctions after he took office. many things directly relevant to this inquiry. >> as robert mueller and his team have so often done or in the time of these memos, kind of coded little easter eggs in these documents and one line in particular that stood out where the memo tooked about flynn's military and public service as a mitigating factor and senior government leaders should be held to the highest standard. do you see that as a shot to the white house? >> both things. they noted that mike flynn was the only person they've changed that served in the military. that mea...

About it with a professor who had done a biography of jack johnson. he said, first of all, posthumous pardoning, you can count them on less than one hand. it's a long process and it doesn't add up to do it for somebody who's dead. he referenced jack johnson's treatment of women as a mitigating factor. he had been known for domestic abuse. do you think the president aware this is more complicated than meets the eye? >> i don't know. but that's why people present documents to the president, or to whatever process they want to use to give the facts so that somebody can study them and make a recom...