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Statement before, during, or after the interview. this is a new material claim in the flynn defense. he is having this fbi interview under friendly circumstances with fbi personnel with whom he had reason to believe he was having a sort of cordial or collegial discussion with. they did not warn him at any time, according to flynn's defense counsel that if he lied to the fbi, even in jocular circumstances like that, he would be committing a crime. this is an interesting new claim. okay. back to the filing. prior to the fbi's interview of general flynn, mr. mccabe and other fbi officials, quote,...

This is a new material claim in the flynn defense. he is having this fbi interview under friendly circumstances with fbi personnel with whom he had reason to believe he was having a sort of cordial or collegial discussion with. they did not warn him at any time, according to flynn's defense counsel, that if he lied to the fbi, even in jocular circumstances like that, he would be committing a crime. this is an interesting new claim. okay. back to the filing. prior to the fbi's interview of general flynn, mr. mccabe and other fbi officials, quote, decided the agents would not warn flynn that it ...

With the government which represented disclosing this represented information didn't cute a violation of the protective order. can you just tell us what that might mean? >> i'm sorry to before a defendant pleads guilty, the government provides him or her with the same discovery that they would give if, for instance, the case was going to go to trial. >> oh, okay. >> so among the information they would provide would be, for instance, the defendant's statements that the government would also turnover what we call exculpatory material, something that might tend to be favorable to the defendant. a...

>> as the flynn defense is criticizing effectively the fbi for the way they conducted that interview and for this -- the personnel that were involved in contacting flynn around this matter, naming fbi officials who have since left the bureau under circumstances that brought a lot of public opprobrium on them, it strikes me that we're getting a bunch of new information about the contact between the fbi and flynn, again, during which he lied, but we've got all these quotes in terms of how the fbi agents themselves approached that meeting, how they observe -- what they observed about flynn, what ...

Information didn't constitute a violation of the protective order. can you just tell us what that might mean? >> i'm sorry to disappoint. there is nothing nefarious here. before a defendant pleads guilty, the government provides him or her with the same discovery that they would give if, for instance, the case was going to go to trial. >> oh, okay. >> so, among the information they would provide would be, for instance, the defendant's statements that the government would also turn over what we call exculpatory material, something that might tend to be favorable to the defendant. and in a case ...