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Extraordinary, and he was not asking them to look into something that had not been investigated. he was asking the justice department to basically come up with agulen, and found we should not extradite him. then a new national security adviser comes in, who is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the turkish government that wants gulen and he's going to the justice department saying you should take another look at this. you cannot have a better definition of corruption on a very serious national security issue, on a very sensitive relationship, the u.s./turkish relationship. >> jen p...

And kilner was communicating that to the court. again, they're deciding it's the better part of valor to wait another day, delay the sentencing because clearly they were afraid of what might happen if the judge passed sentence on mike flynn today. andrea? >> jonathan capehart has joined us at the table as well. quite a moment, defense deciding to accept the judge's offer to delay sentencing because clearly he was going to come down with the hammer on mike flynn. >> yeah. this is a pretty extraordinary day. and i just want to echo what both jen palmieri and ben rhodes have been saying today. th...

Sanction, and so we are come a long way since then. i agree with carol that flynn's lawyers did something bizarre. the table was set for a sentencing process and flynn's counsel and the lawyers and he had done exactly what was asked of him, and in this 11th hour memo, was he manipulated into lying in the initial statement by the judge, i have never had a defendant coming before me who was pleading guilty and at the same time suggesting that he was not guilty, and that is obviously infuriated the judge. it was a bad tactical mistake by the lawyers. >> and tom winter is our national security and...