Chose to moderate its response to the sanctions as a result to flynns request. We have john roberts standing by at the white house, but we begin with Catherine Herridge live outside the federal courthouse in washington. You were in the courthouse to give us this report. What did you see . Thanks, dana, and good afternoon. After 33 years of military service and five in combat, the retired general and National Security advisor enter the courthouse behind me and he stood composed and stoic in the courtroom as he pled guilty to a felony, in this case, lying to federal investigators about his connotations with the Russian Ambassador in 2016. What we really learned today was the granular details about how flynn came to be a gobetween, carrying information between the Trump Transition Team and the Russian Ambassador. If we run through the timeline, you can see exactly what the government was getting to. About december 28th, this is when the Obama Administration imposed sanctions in retail ret
certainly that is the kind of scenario that s where we s investigators. and the reason why they took this step of executing a search warrant, remember the first priority of this investigation is just to get to this material back for precisely the kind of scenario that you described. but the truth is we don t know yet if something like that happens. and so the governments for subjective in all of this was to get this stuff back so that couldn t happen anymore or if it happens at all. devlin barrett thank you very much for joining us and what i know is a busy night with the breaking news reporting, and bradley mott, thank you very much for your expertise. anytime. thank you. coming up, president biden spent labor day talking to union members and wisconsin and pennsylvania, and making fun of the boston access of our next guest, labor secretary mighty walls. that is next. that is next it s going to take investing in some things you ve heard of
is just to get to this material back for precisely the kind of scenario that you described. but the truth is we don t know yet if something like that happens. and so the governments for subjective in all of this was to get this stuff back so that couldn t happen anymore or if it happens at all. devlin barrett thank you very much for joining us and what i know is a busy night with the breaking news reporting, and bradley mott, thank you very much for your expertise. anytime. thank you. coming up, president biden spent labor day talking to union members and wisconsin and pennsylvania, and making fun of the boston access of our next guest, labor secretary mighty walls. that is next. all smart beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. ends monday. energy demands are rising. and the effects are being felt everywhere. that s why at chevron, we re increasing production in the permian basin by 15%.
great enough way as to throw the investigation off or cause them to spend more time or send them in the wrong direction. from the statements that were laid out, the information, it certainly seems that is the case. they were looking at these conversations. he said they didn t happen or certain topics did not come up and later admitted they did. they ve got the admission now that he intentionally, you know, misled the agents about that. the materiality question is one that they probably satisfy the legal standard when they say that. unfortunately, that s the way lawyers talk. dana: [laughs] we are glad you were here to talk with us. bradley, let me read you a quote from andy mccartney. he s at the national review, from a prosecutor. it remains unclear why the obama justice department chose to investigate to be 16. there was nothing wrong with the national security advisor having meetings with foreign counterparts and sanctions in those meetings. plus, the fbi had fis a recordings of
detail about that succession of phone calls. but it s clear that someone who was in the president s immediate orbit knew what flynn was doing. yet that information never made it to the vice president. flynn says it s an oversight on his part to not tell mike pence, but it s getting curious in terms of that aspect of this. dana: john roberts, thank you so much. let s bring our legal panel, bradley mott is a a former deputy assistant under george w. bush. i want to ask you, maybe i can start with you, bob, when robert mueller s team said that these lies had a material impact on the investigation, what does that mean? what is a material impact? partly, they are satisfying a legal standard, if all statement to the government that can be prosecutable has to be a material false statement. it can t be, i had a ham sandwich for lunch, when you really had turkey? it has to mean something. the statement was false in a