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Unredacting the mueller report. well today was the deadline for prosecutors to hand that stuff over. and it kind of didn't happen. the first one happened. prosecutors did turn over the full transcript of that voice mail from president president's lawyer we now know is john dowd. now that we have the full transcript it does paint an even chlorer 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...

That flynn was going to plead guilty and become a cooper. we had seen bits and he ises of the transcript of that voice mail in the mueller report. in the section on potential criminal obstruction of justice by the president. the pieces of the transcript in the mueller report read -- and i remember reporting this at the time right after the report came out -- that voice mail read like a kind of mafiaesque threat to michael flynn through his attorney saying hey, we know you're going to cooperate. we got to know what you're giving them on the president. i mean the or else was silent but implied. ...

Call. >> this was a voice message sent to michael flynn's attorney. that attorney turned it over to the special counsel's office because there was some concern that people perhaps inside the trump administration perhaps even the president's own lawyer was somehow trying to influence michael flynn's cooperation. and let me read this. it's a lengthy voice mail. i'm just going to read it to you. it starts out with a call from john dowd to rob kelner. he says 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 -- a...

Out, that voice mail read like a kind of mafia-esque threat to michael flynn through his attorney saying, hey, we know what you're cooperate. we want to know what you're going to give them on the president. the or else was silent, but it was implied. it literally starts with the president's lawyer saying, let me see if i can't state it in starker terms. have you ever had like a pleasant conversation, a nonthreatening conversation with somebody that started that way? maybe if you had a painter. i could paint this for you in starker terms. anyway, so we had seen portions of that voice mail. we h...

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 understand that you can't join the joint defense. so that's one thing. if on the other hand we have -- there's inf...