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Question of whether or not he should continue to be the judge in this case? >> i think he gave the defense an argument. i'm not sure they're going to take him up on it, but he gave them an argument that he shouldn't be the sentencing judge. now, that's a risky strategy. they would have to ask that he be recused. if he said no, and they couldn't change it, they're really stuck, aren't they? i think what's going to happen going forward is the prosecutors will put together a more fulsome, more compelling case for general flynn's cooperation, i'm guessing. they'll file that at some point so the ju...

Quote, we would like to request a continuance of sentencing, your honor. and so, flynn's cooperation with the government will continue and his case, the sentencing in his case, will be continued for another few months. he'll be back presumably sometime in march to go before this judge again and talk it over again, maybe under circumstances that wouldn't make the judge explode in front of an open courtroom about how he feels about mike flynn's behavior. now, the legal rationale from the judge today for not sentencing mike flynn today, it's a legal rationale basically from the judge in which he ...

Offenses. they asserted to the court that in fact mike flynn committed serious crimes, but they said that is outweighed by what a great cooperator he has been, helping them with all these other cases. and the judge today was you know however good he's been as a cooperator, you're going to need to add some more cooperation to that side of the scale to balance out his crimes, because his climbs to my mind are unbelievably bad. so he's definitely shocking mike flynn and his defense lawyers today. he also seems to sort of be shocking the prosecutors. and here's where we got some of the news that w...

Helping them with all these other cases. and the judge today was like, you know, however good he's been as a cooperator, you're going to need to add some more cooperation to that side of the scale to balance out his crimes, because his climbs to my mind are unbelievably bad. so he's definitely shocking mike flynn and his defense lawyers today. he also seems to sort of be shocking the prosecutors. and here's where we got some of the news that was made today, made in open court. so, this is the judge asking the prosecutors about whether they're absolutely sure that there is no more cooperation t...

Prosecutor brandon van grack, your honor, it remains a possibility that general flynn is continuing to cooperate with the government at this time. the judge says, all right, it's a possibility? mr. van grack, yes, your honor. the judge, more often than not, the court will wait until this person has finished. this person has testified in the grand jury or pleas entered. there is nothing else he can do to help us. but in this case there is still a likelihood that he could help, correct? the prosecutor then says, yes, but, quote, the defendant has provided the vast majority of cooperation that co...