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Baseball, fade into the background. they make calls, they get most right. they get a few wrong, but you don't really see them playing the game, and that's what i thought judge sullivan did today. he brought up some things that i thought were simply intemperate. it sounded more like he wanted to be a prosecutor than a judge, questioning the charging strategy, holding the prosecutors to account for why he was getting the deal he got, whether cooperation was finished, whether he should have been charged with treason or a logan act violation. look, the judge is the boss. any judge in his or her co...

So michael flynn in the end doesn't get sentenced today. flynn's lawyer finally says, 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 some time 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 sente...

Product of entrapment or he was ambushed or boxed in. but we also saw the judge propose a resolution to this matter effectively, in which flynn has to go back and offer more in terms of cooperation in order to balance the scales more in his own favor before he's sentenced. what did you make of those? >> i thought the judge was actually right to rebuke defense counsel for positing, all right, that flynn was entrapped, that flynn was set up, that flynn didn't know what he was doing. that struck me as a defense argument as a bridge too far, rachel. that said, the government decided that general f...

Cooperation that flynn has offered to the special counsel, the cases that he has helped with. the judge has also seen the fbi's unredacted notes about their interactions with flynn and about him lying to the fbi. and we really do not know as members of the public what's behind those black redacting bars. but who knows? maybe what's behind those black bars is what contributed to this judge going off like a volcano today about the seriousness and the terribleness of mike flynn's behavior. i'm going to cut to the chase here, because this is the part you have heard about today, if you have heard a...

Information, or if i begin to discuss something nonpublic, don't be shy in telling me. my clerks over the years have learned to do this. and because we just got a transcript, he makes some sort of gesture. if i get off the script or get into areas, i won't be offended. i may not see you. so stand up or say something. i don't want to unintentionally say something that should not be revealed on the public docket. so this is right at the outset of today's hearing, and this is a really good reminder right at the outset that all of those redactions we have seen in the court filings in mike flynn's ...