he s expressed privately his concern over the toll this has taken on michael flynn s life and now we see him saying this publicly and the notion that hillary clinton was a liar, that she s the one who should be facing some sort of criminal prosecution, look, quick fact check. the fbi concluded she did not lie during her 2016 interview with investigators. they also cleared her of criminal wrongdoing after that investigation, of course, that you covered extensively into her e-mail server, so that may be where the president wants to put his attention and robert mueller and the special counsel s investigation are looking elsewhere. sara murray at the white house, thank you. there are a lot of moving parts on who knew what when on all about this and i want to back up and see how this played out in real time. the sours of michael flynn s troubles really based on two conversations that he had with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. that s the december 22nd call that was about a united
but still stunning to watch talk about the impact of what we witnessed today. we got a lot more than we thought we might get from this. they did not have to give us a statement of offense and give all the details they did. they could have simply said he was pleading guilty to this one charge of lying to the nib and left it at that. these documents are clearly a warning shot to the trump administration, because they re naming senior and very senior transition officials that worked with jared kushner. this is a warning shot to them now, they have flynn who s willing to cooperate and turn on these people he worked with, to explain exactly who directed him to make these calls. we know that kushner was definitely behind the december 22nd call that flynn made to kislyak about the u.n. resolution.
that earlier this month, mueller s team sat down with jared kushner, and finding out what we know today that he was playing a role in the december 22nd call, that mueller s team also wanted to get kushner s version of events before this information came out today. they knew that when they brought him in. exactly. they knew this when they brought him in. they wanted to see what he would say. we should underline the special counsel/fbi version of what happened is also partially based on intercepts, transcripts of the conversations. the other point i was going to make is mueller the special counsel left a lot of years on the table here. one count of lying for four cases of lying, right? up to five years, but he s brought that down. based on flynn s cooperation. there are other things cited in the statement of offense, other misleading statements by michael flynn, including regarding his foreign agent filing, whatever. each lie to the fbi carries up
looking at what gloria was just talking about, the anxiety, one of the things that i think that he should be anxious about is reading this document, these three pages, it s clear robert mueller has set forth a version of events that occurred in that period in december that he believes to be the truth. based on what we heard from people around the white house, they also have presented their version of the truth which is that jared kushner did not direct flynn. and so the question is when jared kushner testified or gave an interview to the special counsel last month in november, did he say he did not direct flynn because if he did that is in contradiction to the papers. we reported a couple days ago mueller s team sat down with jared kushner, and finding out what we know today that he was making a role in the december
contributor. julia, this was not necessarily a surprise but still stunning to watch. talk about the impact of what we witnessed today. yes, brian. so i think for reporters, we actually got a lot more than what we thought we might get from this. robert mueller and his team did not have to give us a statement of offense and give all of the details that they did. they could have simply said he was playieading guilty to one charge of lying to the fbi and left it at that. these documents are clearly a warning shot to the trump administration because they are naming senior and very senior transition officials who worked with jared kushner. this is a warning shot to them now that now they have flynn who is willing to cooperate and turn on these people he worked with to explain exactly who directed him to make these calls and from our reporting today, we know that kushner was definitely behind the december 22nd call that flynn made to him about the