president trump can pardon michael flynn, he couldn't pardon him from state crimes that he might be exposed to. they could use that for leverage, as well, potentially. >> that brings me to another question i have been wondering about with flynn's deal. we got a great question from a viewer named jim who wrote and said why would a defendant agree to a plea deal that flynn did? it doesn't really protect him from much. and i think what jim is getting at there is what is in the plea deal, what's in the statement of the offense and everything is not very much information. and maybe that means they don't have very much on flynn but it's my understanding that at least in some jurisdictions, when you get a guilty plea, you layout every single thing you got expect them and expect the agreements to be juicy. this was very thin. >> even if you don't write out in the plea agreement everything the person admitted to. let's take a step back. when this conversation happens between flynn or someone in