let s talk about that is ahead. this is a very consequencial he hearing. shimon prokupecz is here, and amber philips, reporter political reporter for the washington post is here. shimon, walk us through how consequential today is. we heard certainly some of it laid out by goodlatte and by nadler. what is today trying to get at? certainly you re going to hear a lot about the 2016, probably the ig report, but i think what i m going to be looking forward to and sort of hearing is how the two rod rosenstein and christopher wray defend their agencies respectively. you know, as you know, rod rosenstein has come under fire, chris wray, though not directly under fire, his agency certainly has been under fire, so i think we re going to see a lot of that. this is an opportunity for these two men to defend their work, to defend what they have been doing. they don t often speak publicly. but anytime they do, and they
this is textbook u.s. attorney manual prosecution here. and this is how they would ordinarily secure cooperation. and think of the tremendous incentive on flynn. they will surely today enter a plea and put off the sentencing and delay it as long as they can so that flynn can cooperate. but more importantly, so that before flynn is sentenced and the government moves for a lesser sentence, that they, the government can see and evaluate whether flynn ultimately delivers, whether he sings for his super and cooperated to the degree that the government wanted. eric columbus has just joined us here onset. former doj official, along with amber philips, and back with us here. eric, good to have you on what has become an extraordinarily busy news morning.