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Joey jackson, let me play the audio of this voice mail. listen closely to this. >> i can understand your situation but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. if you have -- it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. we need some kind of heads-up just for the sake of protecting all interests, if we can. without you having to give up any confidential information. remember what we've always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn and that still remains. >> that was a portion of the voice mail. do you think this represent...

As well. >> jeffzeleny, thank you so much. this is cnn breaking news. we have breaking news in our politics lead for the first time we're hearing the audio of a voice mail from president trump's former lawyer john dowd to his fired national security adviser michael flynn's lawyer. a key witness in robert mueller's investigation, flynn was. cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz joins me now. we're now hearing this voice mail for the first time? >> for the first time, we're hearing the president's former personal attorney john dowd in a phone call to michael flynn's attorney that was...

Opposite is true. if michael flynn lied about his contacts with the russians, that's the threat to national security. once again another example of people in trump's world putting trump's interests over the interests of the united states. >> we just got that audio. let's take a listen. this is the president's lawyer leaving a voicemail for mike flynn's lawyer. here it is. >> hey, rob, um, this is john again. um, maybe i -- i -- i'm sympathetic, i understand your situation, but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. if you have -- it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a de...

Again. uh, maybe i -- i -- i -- i'm sympathetic and i understand your situation. but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. if you have -- it wouldn't surprise me if you'd gone on to make a deal with -- uh, with the government. i understand that you can't join -- if on the other hand, well, there's information that implicates the president, then we've got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue, i don't know. some issue we've got to deal with. not only for the president but for the country. so, uh, you know, then -- then we need some kind of heads up.

Conversations and contacts with former russian ambassador sergey kislyak, he was -- this phone call, this voicemail was left for his lawyer. rob, this is john again, that's john dowd, i'm sympathetic, i understand your situation but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. it wouldn't surprise me if you'd gone on to make a deal with the government. if there's information that implicates the president we have a national security issue so, you know, we need some kinds of heads up just for the sake of protecting all of our interests if we can. remember what we always said about the presid...