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I understand your situation. let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal. if on the other hand, there is information that implicates the president, then we've got a national security issue. we need some kind of heads up. >> remember what was always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn and that still remains. >> good evening to all of you. margaret, you've been covering a lot of these characters over the years. rarely do you get that private recording. what do you read from it? what do you see in the

Judge had ordered be made public. flynn who cooperated with the special counsel's investigation is awaiting sentencing for lying to the fbi about his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak after the u.s. imposed sanctions for russian meddling in the 2016 electi election. >> prosecutors did release the full transcript of a november 2017 voice mail revealing that president trump's former lawyer, his former outside lawyer john dowd told an attorney for michael flynn to tell the trump legal team if he was sharing information that would implicate the president saying it was a matter of...

License to this this is a voice mail by john doud you'll forgive me there is stuttering hey, rob this is john again, maybe i'm sympathetic i understand your situation but let me see see if i can't state it in starker terms. if you have -- and it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. i understand that you can't join the joint defense. so that's one thing. if on the other hand we have -- there is 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. wo...

John dowd voicemail -- >> can i interrupt you with a dramatic reading especially for those who grew up in the new york area listening to gambino recordings -- >> yes. >> -- in the fish club, people should listen to this this way. this is a voicemail left by john dowd and you'll forgive me because there's stuttering written in as part of this. "hey, rob, 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 -- and it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with -- and work with the government. uh, i ...

Now that we have the full transcript, it does paint a clearer picture of how the president's attorney was in fact calling over to mike flynn, calling flynn's lawyers to ask what flynn knew about the president. and what he was going to tell prosecutors about the president and how flynn should know how the president felt about him. i mean, it does not change the tone, but we get more of it. quote, i understand your situation, but let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. who talks like that? it wouldn't surprise me if you have gone on to make a deal with and work with the government. if t...