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So when i saw flynn's sentencing memos, that jumped out at me right away, this is not going to sit well with judge sullivan. but then i tried to put myself in flynn's lawyer's shoes and you figure even the government is not -- even the government is not recommending my client go to prison. so maybe if i go in and i flick at this conspiracy theory, maybe i can get president trump's attention, maybe i'm playing for a pardon here. it's sort of a gamble and i think what you're seeing today is the jij wudge was having non that. >> thank you for your analysis, ken dill annian and matt ka puzo with "...

A record $107 million, whether some of that money was received illegally or used illegally. there's apparently a criminal investigation now underway. >> well, i think what you're seeing is professional prosecutors who have evidence suggesting that there may be crimes and they are following that evidence and, again, it's another shoe that has dropped. it seems like every day there's another revelation of at least hey alleged improprieties by the trump administration or his campaign, and -- and all of this can't be just sort of made up. thereto seems to be a consistent finding of impropriety rel...

And you don't have the votes. if you had the votes, you wouldn't need to negotiate with the democrats. so this is a republican party problem, is it not? >> not in the senate. we've got to have ten democrats on the senate. >> i understand, in the house. you seem to have a problem in the house. >> i can't comment on the house, but it doesn't -- the house can do what it wants but it doesn't matter if it doesn't pass the senate. we obviously have to get ten votes in the senate. i think some of my democratic colleagues are in perfectly good faith, they just don't think we need a wall. i think other...

>> what should that be? what would you be offering? >> you know, i'd sit down with my democratic friends and just talk frankly and try to size them up and see how serious i think they are. and see whether or not i think they're bluffing. there is a way out of this. it won't solve the problem but we can keep government from shutting down by just doing another cr if we can't resolve it. i'm not a big fan of continuing resolutions but the way we've been spending money around here, doing a continuum resolution to maintain the status quo would actually save some taxpayer money. >> you're probably h...

He would try to get it passed in the house. it's not going to happen. the mexicans are not paying for it, and the americans are not either. it's not happening. >> here's to me the problem the president has, it's republican controlled house and senate and yet he's begging the democrats for money. it's his own party denying him this. oh, by the way, the irony is the $1.6 billion that's in this budget for it was originally the ask. >> right. >> so he's also changing the rules in here. he's got to me no leverage here. he seems to have played it all away. >> for somebody who sold himself as a dealm...