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Call. >> this was a voice message sent to michael flynn's attorney. that attorney turned it over to the special counsel's office because there was some concern that people perhaps inside the trump administration perhaps even the president's own lawyer was somehow trying to influence michael flynn's cooperation. and let me read this. it's a lengthy voice mail. i'm just going to read it to you. it starts out with a call from john dowd to rob kelner. he says this is john again. maybe i'm sympathetic, i understand your situation but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. if you have -- a...

Cooperation or a deal in the works. my question still is, how do investigators know -- if they know he is now admitted to lying to the fbi -- how do they know that they are getting this cooperating witness to reveal everything that he knows? tell me the truth. >> well, whenever you get a cooperateor with a guilty plea there is always a little bit of a block on the institution. you have somebody committed a crime lied or done other things. first they bring in the lawyer, rob kelner, and kelner makes an attorney profer, this is what he says. the prosecutors they have audiotapes and other corrobo...

House, michael flynn junior, and there was some concern in recent weeks that the father here who has now pleaded guilty lying to the fbi and his son would get in trouble as well. how much do you think potentially the son factored into his cooperation? >> oh, i think the son was a major point of leverage in the negotiations with the special counsel. >> you do? >> absolutely. and remember his son was the chief of staff of a company that was an unregistered foreign agent, and that was engaged in a number of these different activities over a period of time. so the son has significant criminal expo...