the key witness as a witness at a trial. he would have been much happier if he could have found a conspiracy charge to level against flynn which would have involved other people. so i think indicting him for lying about something that was not material directly to the investigation was not itself ta crime is a show of weakness not a show of strength. let me put that question to you. they are making the point that something may have been politically untoward but not illegal. the logan act. do you agree with him there? do you agree this piece of law from the 18th century should be something we no longer are considering? i think we should consider it in terms of what s right and wrong. the likelihood of a prosecution under the logan act is extremely remote. it was very rude, very offensive not to loop in the obama state department. they knew what they were doing with respect to that resolution. and the trump people may have had a different view. but he took office on january
can t make it a crime. we have an untarry executive and you need a mens rea. and the ac test ray a, act of a crime can t be a constitutionally protected act regardless of what the motive may have been, we don t psycho analy analyze the president. as we look into obstruction of justice, we now have admission of guilt. we have a charge. does that strengthen the case for obstruction of justice? you have to connect a lot of dots before you get to object instruction of justice. in a sense, section 1001 could be considered part of the body of laws. and there are many federal laws that deal with what we commonly call obstruction of justice. there are six major statutes. section 1001, false statements is a form of obstruction itself, because it s basically lying about something material, that s the key, to a federal agent. and that s what general flynn pleaded guilty to. the issue that i think has to be
if there is nothing here at this point there is nothing that points to collusion, right, just bad judgment. and we can discuss that. it s poor judgment and you can t tell if it s sheer stupidity, why would you lie to the fbi or if these people are used to acting with impunity and something applied to them here. asking the white house to react to the tweet this morning and word we are getting from white house staff sort of paraphrasing, what ty cobb the president s attorney had to say yesterday, let me ask you in the context of that, what kind of strategy do you see here from the white house going forward in light of all this aswegen to see speculation about who the senior official is or very senior official mentioned in the documents yesterday? well, i think you saw a glimpse of that, obviously, with the ty cobb statement. and then also what the president said no collusion, no collusion. and tricky thing to prove. collusion itself isn t a
fbi about something that s important to the fbi. and that includes background investigations. let s let allen finish his point. you said it was rude for him to try to get the russians to veto the resolution against israel. i think it was highly desirable. the president of the united states. of course. decided to let that go throughout of peak against netanyahu. it was against the that has nothing to do with this. i am very proud of the trump transition team for trying to get this outrageous u.n. resolution vetoed. i think we ought to be applauding them for that and not trying to prosecute him. i think you are wrong. but irrelevant to this. nothing to do with this. you are rude and that s not a crime. it was rude. thank you very much. i think it was virtuous. thank you for all joining me for analysis of the news of yesterday today. still ahead russia and the republicans how michael flynn cooperation with the special
flushed out in the next coming weeks is going to be what went into that decision. what else did the federal government have on general flynn. if it is true that they only had section 1001, you have to understand, yes, it s got statutory maximum of five years, but the sentencing guidelines for defendant like flynn either without cooperation are zero to six months. why not tell the government to pound sound if you are flynn and take your chances at trial knowing your sentence exposure isn t that high. it might be that they had more on general flynn. or it may just be that he didn t want to deal with the federal prosecution. all right. chime in here. on his son, that s the way prosecutors work. it is. i ve had many many instances unless you plead to something, we are going to go after your son. look if i had been flynn s lawyer he might win a case on lig to the fbi. because if he lied about something that was not at all a crime, it was perfectly lawful,