and did comey believe that michael flynn was going to face a false statements charge? because members of congress say comey told them back then he did not expect michael flynn to be indicted. laura: so the big sentencing memos are going to come out it looks like on friday. both manafort and cohen, it looks like both are coming down. it s going to be a big news night tomorrow. yes. laura: what do you expect if anything comey behind closed doors, we ll get the transcript on saturday of what he says, what light will he she did on this question we posed at the top? how does hillary s aids seem to always get away in the end? they get away with this stuff in the end? he s been questioned about stuff like to this before. as you remember it was over the july 4th holiday in 2016 that they questioned her and then almost instantly they exonerated here of making false statements. laura: had he wasn t there during the questioning? no it s as if the fbi didn t check her testimony. we the
general flynn, lying, 1001 violations. byron york is with us, you just wrote a great piece about a set of questions that comey should grapple with, be asked and have to answer. number one of which is: michael flynn. what did fbi agents think when they interviewed michael flynn on jan 24th, 2017, just four days into the administration? do you remember they interviewed him about that wire tapped phone call he had during the transition with the russian ambassador? and why did they go to the why did the fbi go to the white house? and did, really, as we have heard that comey has said, did the fbi agents believe that flynn was not lying? laura: including petr strzok who was there. including petr strzok. what did the fbi agents really say about this? has comey actually read the transcript of these conversations? laura: with kislyak? absolutely.
it s really all gonna be over. laura: byron wasn t michael flynn out of the country when he was wire tapped? yes. laura: he was surveilled. they listened in. it was the russian ambassador who was wire tapped. laura: they re allowed to do that under us surveillance policies, no problem. then his name was unmasked. you wrote about this as well. this is something deven nunes got a lot of criticism for bringing up. the point is we do wiretap, we never say this, but we wiretap top russian officials, we knew what was being said. then you think who is on the other did end of that conversation? that was unmasked. why does susan rice s name come up frequently? she was involved in the unmaskings, it was never answered why was it so necessary to learn these people s names? laura: byron york we
they had been writing this exoneration memo for months before they saquestioned her ana lot of other key figures and of course they handed out immunity like candy. on the other hand comey has been asked these questions before. there were some republicans who were not happy with comey being called to be questioned tomorrow. laura: strzok was the question that interviewed mills and abedin, correct? correct. laura: he also interviewed michael flynn. yes. laura: and he s testified on capitol hill. what have they gotten from him? well they didn t he didn t talk about the flynn case to them. because the fbi and everybody associated with it has said well it s an ongoing criminal investigation, i m sorry, we can t talk about it. flynn has pled guilty and i charles grassly has been trying to get information on that grounds, on that basis, saying well look he s already pleaded guilty. now by the 18th of december, he s gonna get sentenced and