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Bracing for what comes next in the wake of robert mueller's sentencing memo for michael flynn. but the fact is prosecutors don't take jail time off the table for nuttin'. so mueller's recommendation of no prison sentence for flynn, who has been interviewed 19 times by the way, tells you that he has been really, really valuable to the special counsel's investigation. has he given them a big fish? potentially a member of the president's family? well, we don't know yet what's behind all of those redactions in the flynn filing. but the top democrat on the senate intel committee, senator mark warne...

Have been close to if not at the top of mueller's list of questions that he wanted to ask after flynn started to cooperate. and we have to stop for a minute and think about what flynn has been charged with. he's been charged with making false statements to the government. so mueller's not taking any of his words at face value. and we see from the sentencing memoranda that flynn was able to provide documents and also communications. and so at this point it seems logical to assume that however mueller has answered that question, he's not just relying on what flynn tells him, he's relying on docu...

Was interested in doing business in moskow and creating a trump tower in moskow and was presumably still interested in doing that while he was president of the united states. >> that question would probably have been close to if not at the top of mueller's list of questions that he wanted to ask after flynn started to cooperate. and we have to stop for a minute and think about what flynn has been charged with. he's been charged with making false statements to the government. so mueller's not taking any of his words at face value. and we see from the sentencing memoranda that flynn was able to ...

You. he was the national security adviser for the president. there aren't very many people above him in the white house hierarchy. beak only the vice president and the president. right? so that is incredibly significant. >> what's number two then? you said. >> number two is that he -- the document does say that he told them about communications between the transition team and conversations with the russians. right? so mueller knows everything about that will whole set of issues concerning sanctions and he surely knows whether president trump directed flynn to do anything that's potentially ill...

Of jail time. right in the. >> the juliette said that's a thank you. >> look, remember when flynn was first reported to be a cooperator what most analysts said, well, you only get a good deal full give up someone above you. he was the national security adviser for the president. there aren't very many people above him in the white house hierarchy. beak only the vice president and the president. right? so that is incredibly significant. >> what's number two then? you said. >> number two is that he -- the document does say that he told them about communications between the transition team and co...