verdict, that he is guilty on all counts. now mike flynn, president trump s national security adviser, is in the unenviable position of having his business partner convicted for something flynn aeady admitted to prosecutors that he, himself, did. and in a failed effort to prevent that conviction from happening, flynn has just blown up his own position as a cooperating witness for prosecutors. which was his best bet for avoiding a prison sentence for himself. and now his business partner is looking at a potential 15 years in prison. and flynn still has his own sentencing in his own case ahead of him. which, again, will hinge on just how valuable he has been to prosecutors all this time. the same prosecutors he just double crossed and changed his story on and tried to kill their case against his business partner and he failed in that effort. oops. good luck at your sentencing. i mean, it s weird. it s like the whole anti-robert mueller t-shirt arguments don t work as well outside of fox
people trying cases together under the very simple premise that two heads are better than one. neal, one of the things that you raised in an op-ed today in the new york times was that the questioning could actually be very simple and direct. that the special counsel and indeed mr. zebley alongside him should perhaps just be asked about the way the president has characterized mueller s findings. ask him if it s true that it proved no collusion, that it proved no obstruction. why do you think that s an effective approach? well, because i think ultimately this is a really simple set of questions, which is did the president obstruct justice? and after mueller turned in his report, the attorney general spun it without showing us the report for many weeks and said, oh, it shows no obstruction. the report actually says the reverse, which is why over 1,000 former federal prosecutors, including today jim comey in another part of the clip before nicolle wallace saying, look, if i read that
mueller s team today, this afternoon, got themselves another landmark victory in court. i mean, there have been dozens of indictments. there have been many guilty plea. there have been many cooperation deals that have sprung from mueller s investigation into russia intervening in our election to help put donald trump into the white house, but for all of those dozens of indictments, mueller s investigation has only led to two trials before a jury. the first one, of course, put president trump s campaign chairman paul manafort in prison for at least seven years. that s his federal prison sentence. and that is separate and apart from any time he may get if he s convicted on the state charges. he s also now facing at the same time. so manafort was only the first jury trial that came out of mueller s investigation. only the second jury trial that has come out of mueller s investigation ended in dramatic fashion today, this afternoon with that jury walking into that courtroom in the eastern
in which the attorney general, as neal says, has sort of redefined what the rules are and whether or not mueller should have said whether or not the president committed crimes. will robert mueller see those things that attorney general barr has said as the policy of the justice department that he should follow because they re proclamations by the a.g.? yeah, i think it puts bob in a very difficult spot. i mean, i ve learned to take that man at his word, having worked for him. by the way, his default is taciturn. so the notion that he would do something other than what he already said he would do when he gave his press conference, he said i m not going beyond my report. my report is my testimony. i have nothing to add. i understand that mr. barr opened the door. i get that. but i don t think it s in bob mueller s dna to do it. mmm-hmm. it may not be in his dna, but doesn t he have to? i mean, this is a guy who oversaw this 22-month investigation, didn t reach a conclusion becaus
you remember that date, october 7th, 2016, if you remember any other date from the campaign because that is the single day when in quick secession the u.s. government announced officially that russia was interfering in the election. that was that joint statement from the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence. the u.s. intelligence community is confident that the russian government is shortly thereafter, the access hollywood tape came out, which threatened to end trump s presidential campaign one month before the election because that was the tape in which he was heard bragging about what he could do to women, what he could grab them by and when you are a star they let you do it. shortly thereafter, very shortly thereafter, that same day is when wikileaks started releasing the emails that russian intelligence had hacked from hillary clinton s campaign chairman and then provided to julian assange and wikileaks to distribute to try to to try to ca