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Tonight, robert mueller telling a federal court michael flynn has given substantial assistance to the russia investigation and should not get jail time. matt lewis is here, ryan lizza, as well. ryan, we'll start with you because you heard rudy giuliani's response and trump ally in mark med doze said this had tonight on the filing. he said "good news for the president." do you see good news here? >> no, i mean, look, we can ignore most of that. it's just spin and bs to try and downplay the gravity of what's happening here. and i think you know, despite the fact that so much was redacted in thes...

Two, three, i expect you to go to three, what is the third one? i can't remember. >> energy department. >> which you run right now. how weird is the universe. he couldn't remember the department of energy. >> right. >> what do you think, mark meadows says this is good news for the president. do you think it's good news. >> i can't imagine how it would be. tonight is a bombshell but in the context of the last week, we have donald trump doing a written answers to robert mueller. you have michael cohen coming out and admitting that he lied to congress and he's obviously talking to robert mueller....

President trump not only maybe directed michael flynn to violate the logan act but possibly, i don't want to get over my skis too much but what about the written answers to robert mueller and the possibility that not only are the written statements being contradicted by what will michael flynn and michael cohen have said but bill evidence that they might have presented. >> corroborating evidence. >> right. >> yeah. so no jail time. what do you read into that? if you were the president or anyone in his orbit and his allies, what would you take. >> a couple things here, right? first of all, as r...

To that question were material into the nature of any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the trump campaign. one of the questions has always been was there a quid pro goal between the trump team and russia. whatever mueller has learned from flynn, does it get to the heart of that, do you thinkle? >> i think it does. that was the interview knew yas was talking about. based on our reporting some of the main questions that came out of that issue wasn't the logan act. no one inside the fbi or the department of justice was seriously going to prosecu...

Politics generally. i think what will the son is saying there is thank you, bob mueller, for recommending the lowest possible sentencinging there. right? i think that's what he's say. i think flynn's brother tweeted something similar. the other thing, don, that this memo reminds us of is the core investigation, right? trump associates' relationship with the russian government's attack on our election, right? so links. the collusion question is very much alive in this memo. right? that is the core of the investigation and he makes it clear that that is not -- that is not a settled question yet....