april 1st through september 30th, $4.568 million. what we have got in the last hour is that the mueller investigation has responded to michael flynn s attorneys in making a sentencing recommendation. they have said that flynn did lie to the fbi but they end this by saying the seriousness of the defendant s offense cannot be called into question, and the court should reject his attempt to minimize it while the circumstances of the interviews do not present mitigating circumstances, assuming the defendant continues to accept responsibility for his actions. his cooperation and military service continue to justify a sentence at the low end of the guideline range. i want to thank my colleagues and friends for supporting our coverage of this, this hour. tom winter, glen kershner and former federal prosecutor elizabeth holtzman, attorney and former u.s. congresswoman who voted to impeach richard nixon, joyce vance. daniel goldman, msnbc s legal
court here in new york and other cases as well. trials are expenses to put on because you sometimes have to travel people in to be able to testify. so in the manafort trial, that occurred during this time period. $4.568 million. the acting attorney general of the united states has written op-eds on how to starve the mueller investigation. how to end it by starving it of funds. that s the thing people like to talk about. as to whether that s applicable or something that could occur, i mean, i seem to think, you know, you look back at some of the major investigations that have occurred in this country. whether the 9/11 commission, whether the watergate investigation, whatever it is, any time you have something that involves the executive branch and something that involves our elections or the safety and sanctity of the country going forward, it s probably worthwhile to spend the money on that. but we ll see in the end when everything comes together what exactly it is they re spending
jury about some other things in connection with trump s financial dealings here. so i think that people who pleaded guilty probably going before the grand jury and explaining what s happening. so we are still in the dark about a lot of things. but mueller is not. and that investigation is just like peeling an onion. but he s keeping us in suspense. we re waiting for the next chapter in this mystery story. they re dropping out as little information as they can drop on a regular basis. however, something is happening, tom wint ebecause we ve got the numbers on what they are spending. 4.5 excuse me, $4.568 million is what they spent from april 1st of this year to separate this is the mueller investigation. that s exactly correct. that includes compensation, travel, equipment they may need to purchase for this investigation. so all of that is included in here. obviously, we know there s been some travel because we ve had mueller s team appearing in