january 24th, 2017 interview with the fbi were you not aware that lying to fbi investigators was a federal crime? defendant, i was not i i was aware. the court, if you want to proceed because you are guilty of this offense i will finally accept your plea. defendant, i would like to proceed, your honor. the court, all right, because you are guilty of this offense? the defendant, yes, your honor. judge sullivan then laid into michael flynn. remember, this is a guy, the judge, who has read all the redacted filings, he knows everything flynn is implicated in. quote, so all along you were unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the president of the united states? i mean, arguably that undermines everything this flag over here stands for. arguably you sold your country out. the court s going to consider all that. i cannot assure you that if you proceed today you will not receive a sentence of incarceration. but i have to also tell you tha
cooperating with the mueller investigation, for telling the truth to the special counsel. but that s not the only thing the president is worried about. we are learning that mueller s team is expected to reveal a lot about michael flynn in his sentencing memo tomorrow. the president s fired national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia s ambassador. and flynn has been cooperating with mueller for a year, which means that mueller now knows everything flynn knows. and on friday we re going to learn a whole lot more about paul manafort s lies when mueller lays it all out in his sentencing memo. we don t know yet exactly what manafort lied about, but we re going to find out in just a few days. so there s lots to discuss. let s bring in first james clapper. he s a former director of national intelligence. good evening to you, sir. thank you for joining us. thanks, don. director clapper, we seem to be at a critical point in the russia investig
to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia s ambassador. and flynn has been cooperating with mueller for a year, which means that mueller now knows everything flynn knows. and on friday we re going to learn a whole lot more about paul manafort s lies when mueller lays it all out in his sentencing memo. we don t know yet exactly what manafort lied about, but we re going to find out in just a few days. so there s lots to discuss. let s bring in first james clapper. he s a former director of national intelligence. good evening to you, sir. thank you for joining us. thanks, don. director clapper, we seem to be at a critical point in the russia investigation with flynn, cohen, manafort. it s all coming together. do you feel that something big is coming? well, as i always do when we have this kind of discussion, i always like to remind myself and anyone else that whatever we think is going to be revealed that special counsel mueller and his team still are ahead of us. they know
said, quote, he certainly has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it. when, if ever, are we going to hear that thing? at the end of the investigation, presumably. you know, his lawyer made that statement when they were out looking for immunity. in that instance, they were looking for immunity from congress. they eventually got basically immunity from bob mueller in exchange for pleading guilty to this one charges. he s not charged with anything else. he had been telling that story to bob mueller. whatever story he has to tell, he told it to bob mueller. he knows everything flynn can testify to. i think it s, you know, important to say, people often, you know, think that michael flynn is an important witness for the obstruction of justice aspect of this case. because of course it is his case that president trump approached comey and asked him to go easy on. he also could very much be a witness for the collusion aspect of this case. he was close to the president on the campa
claim. listen to the president and the vice president. we fired him because he said something to the vice president that was not so. i was disappointed to learn that the facts that had been conveyed to me by general flynn were inaccurate. and i fully support the president s decision to ask for his resignation. okay, so the president and the vice president are the ones who said flynn lied. and flynn himself has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with sbee ambassador kislyak. with me now, my panel, thanks to all. flynn s son, obviously, he s not a nobody. he worked for flynn during the transition, chief of staff. he was intimately involved in everything flynn knew at the time. now calling, i suppose, the president a liar. as you say, he s in a