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"washington post" story, i know you've been talking about it, but this really is one of the important data points in the investigation. it was the first time that there was a leak about michael flynn and the conversations he had with the russian ambassador at that time. as i recall, mike flynn was outside the country so his communication, even as an american citizen, would have been picked up by the intelligence community, but in those circumstances, the american citizen's identity is hidden and anonymized -- >> sean: if i may, i don't mean to interrupt but i think the audience needs to know, ...

But whaton everyone is going to be talking about is what's called an addendum. this is the document thatwh the special counsel has put forward that lays out how former national security l advisor mike flynn has been cooperating with the specialad counsel. and according to the addendum, which is heavily redacted, he has provided almost two dozen interviews with the special counsel and just taking the redactions out, what we can see is that those interviews have s focused on contacts between the trump presidential campaign and russian officials, so that is phase one. and then also in the second ...

And yet, there is no mention of collusion. i think it's good news for president trump tonight that this is what has come down to, even though they said he substantially cooperated, i think he substantially cooperated to say that there was no collusion and we can s look at it with that in mind. >> sean: jim jordan, i will read to you "the post" queried whether the actions violated the logan act. u.s. 9 c 953. it's old but rarely federal statute prohibiting unauthorized private diplomacy with federal nations. i think five or six times it's been used and most instances the people get off innocent...

As his deputy andrew mccabe. and that testimony was given several months apart. they both reported the same thing, that agents saw no signs of deception. in other words, they didn't think flynn was lying to them when he tried to relate his conversations and contacts with the russian ambassador. so the question has alwaysn been how do they get from, as mccabe said, a very poor foundation for false p statements case to a guilty plea for lying to federal investigators. i'm still going through the recordsti now. just to break it down and keep it simple, this sentencing memo from the speciall couns...

Interview members of president-elect's trump transition team" -- i think they might be talking about vice president pence -- "publicly spoken they had spoken to the defendant and he denied speaking to the russian ambassador about the ivsanctions." look, i don't know what your guys' lives is like. i can tell you what my life is like. the number of conversations i have on a daily basis, if you ask me who i talked to yesterday, i will not be able to recall with any sense of certainty. most people live busy lives. i was there, i watched this. this was as busy as a time as anything else and i'm sur...