Averages retrace as Senate Republicans started whipping votes to pass tax reform. We have an allstar guest lineup to break it all down. North dakota senator john hoeven. Legal eagle curt and lieutenantgeneral Thomas Mcinerney here tonight. Im liz macdonald. This is risk and reward. Michael flynn will plead guilty to make false statements to the fbi. Do you think that has anything to do with the downside move in stocks . If general flynn had been charged an convicted for all the crimes the government has evidence against him, he would face 60 years, six, zero years in jail. As a result of the guilty plea that has been reduced to somewhere between six and 12 months. Did he make a deal . I think there is no there there. We turned that around. Dow industrials up one point. Corker and flake are still on the fence. James lankford is now a yes vote. This is selloff. Jeff flake who was holdout on the tax bill, we are getting word he will not be. He will be a yea vote. That would seem to indica
Being made public by Elijah Cummings. Mr. Flynn believed that ending the sanctions could allow a business project he had once participated in to move forward according to the whistleblower. And mike mimoli covering this story at nbc news writes donald trump was just 11 minutes into his presidency when flynn texted a former Business Partner to say ambitious u. S. Collaboration with russia to build Nuclear Reactors in the middle east was, quote, good to go, according to a new whistleblower account. This news comes as the president s son donald trump jr. Fielded questions from the House Intel Committee today. Lets get to our reporters and gifts on all of these stories. Msnbc National Security analyst and former chief of staff at both the department of defense and the cia, jeremy bash joins us, along with New York Times reporter msnbc National Security contributor michael schmidt, one of the reporters on this new flynn story today and our panel. Associated press White House Reporter jonath
Attacks to date on special counsel Robert Mueller. Attacks like this one. Quote, disgraced and discredited bob mueller and his whole group of angry democrat thugs spent over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, spelled wrong, only with my approval for purposes of transparency. Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no russian collusion is just someone looking for trouble. Quite a tantrum, even for president prickly pants. Maybe don mcgahn knows everything. And so does mueller. The reporters were out of the loop. The times reporting last night, quote, President Trumps lawyers do not know just how much the White House Counsel Don Mcgahn told the special counsels investigators during months of interviews. A lapse that has contributed to a growing recognition that an early strategy of full cooperation was a potentially damaging mistake. So heres some of the flash points in the investigation into obstruction of justice that don mcgahns 30 hours of defendant may have helped