joining us now is nyu law professor, ryan goodman. he served as special counsel to the obama administration. co-editor in chief at justice security. thanks for being here. thank you. one of the questions that you guys wrote today in terms of thinking about what mueller should be asked is really what i want to ask you about. you think mueller should be asked did your office ever provide an assessment to the extent president trump is acting wittingly or unwittingly to advance the interests of the russia government. if so to which members if your office didn t make that assessment are you aware of the fbi or others in the government having produced such an assessment at any point? do you know if that s been provided in some form to congress? you re asking whether this is the president a foreign agent question ever actually got investigated. that s right. what on earth happened to it? the new york times reported they opened an investigation and andy mccabe confirmed that, in fact,
doesn t seem to be driven by something else going on in flynn s case. this stuff just popped onto the public docket today by order of that judge. and one of the items that we got for the first time today is the sealed, the previously sealed documents that prosecutors had filed with the judge in flynn s case in advance of that doomed sentencing proceeding back in december. prosecutors had filed a public facing document, which is the one that said flynn is a great cooperator, you should give him credit for that, judge. that public facing document didn t spell out much what flynn had cooperated about. they saved that for this sealed document, this document that was sealed until today which does spell out in detail exactly what flynn helped with, exactly what investigations flynn cooperated in. and so now that it s been unsealed today, surprise, we re seeing that for the first time. you can see it there at the top it s described as under seal and