Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. Tonight there is no script because im going to go through what we just learned from the special Councils Office, im going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. This just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it right away, bring in lots of Expe
handle, go to the, i think, key elements of it right away, bring in lots of expert guests in order to explain what this meant. we have had this for less than a half hour, and i feel like this is the kind of document, the sentencing document which has been filed by the special council s office tonight in the case of michael flynn, who was trump s national security adviser. this is the type of document that is available and sort of readily accessible to all of us who do not have law degrees, who are not lawyers or professionals in this matter. i want to go through what we ve just learned, what we ve just received from mueller s office. i ll tell you how i understand it, and what i think that mueller s office is telling us, with this document. as we go through it. but then only after we have gone through this material are we going to bring in some experts who are taking their own look at it, people who do have law degrees, people who have worked in the justice department, who have worked
who are taking their own look at it, people who do have law degrees, people who have worked in the justice department, who have worked on criminal cases like this, and some senior security reporters who have been following the case of mike flynn since it broke. let me show you what we just got, it really is just in. it s dated today, the united states of america versus michael t. flynn, he s the defendant. it s the government s memorandum in aide of sentencing. on december 1st, 2017, the defendant pled guilty to one count of making materially false statements to the fbi. as calculated by the u.s. probation office, the applicable total defense level is 4. resulting in an advisory guideline range, meaning sentencing range of 0 to 6 months.