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Friday. but that's not all. this is going to be a busy and potentially very, very interesting week in the news when it comes to the investigation of the president and his campaign and when it comes to special counsel robert mueller. nbc news has learned tonight that there is going to be a new public facing document tomorrow from the special counsel's office in the case of mike flynn, the president's former national security advisor, who secretly talked to russia about sanctions during the transition and then lied to the fbi about it. he has pled guilty to lying to the fbi. he's been cooperatin...

Friday. but that's not all. this is going to be a busy and potentially very, very interesting week in the news when it comes to the investigation of the president and his campaign and when it comes to special counsel robert mueller. nbc news has learned tonight that there is going to be a new public facing document tomorrow from the special counsel's office in the case of mike flynn, the president's former national security advisor, who secretly talked to russia about sanctions during the transition and then lied to the fbi about it. he has pled guilty to lying to the fbi. he's been cooperatin...

Amounts of evidence they knew he was not coming forth on that they have and they still need. so this is not helpful to the furthering of this investigation either. >> john dean, what do you think about the theory david gergen advanced, this, you know, is hoping to get a pardon down the road if it's protecting the president? >> that's very potential. i think he sort of waited for that up until the time he flipped, and he obviously has ability to communicate probably through his wife and others to send signals that he can only go so far. the prosecutors would probably monitor him very closely, s...

So this was -- in the end i think this was just a somewhat brilliant move on mueller's point to ensure that there's going to be a public document. >> smart. very smart. >> smart man. >> yeah. smart. wicked smart. why would manafort lie with so much at stake for him? is it possible he's lying to protect the president or, i don't know, some other trump associates? >> it's certainly possible. i don't want to speculate. a lot of people theorizing out there, well, maybe he's hoping for a pardon. >> right. >> maybe he's been promised something. we don't know. i think juliette's point about the sente...

Protecting the president? >> that's very potential. i think he waited for that up until the time he flipped and he obviously has ability to communicate probably through his wife and others to send signals that he was going to go to the line and would only go so far. the prosecutors would probably monitor him closely so we don't know how this will go. david mentioned that we'll learn more. we are. in the sentencing document that will be filed very shortly. >> so would it be appropriate for manafort's attorneys or people connected to manafort to have connections with people on the trump legal te...