Mueller is still not recommending jail time. Bill a flurry of tweets already today. President trump sending that. Good luck in court today to general Michael Flynn. Interesting to see what he has to say despite pressure put on him with russia collusion in our highly successful political campaign. There was no collusion. Former a. G. Michael mukasey has analysis. Peter doocy has the report outside u. S. District court and lets begin there with what else we have learned from the f. B. I. Interview. There was another document released late last night with a ton of redactions but it shows that f. B. I. Agents were helping flynn fill in a lot of blanks about conversations that he was having with the Russian Ambassador Serge Kislyak because the f. B. I. Was monitoring flynns communication and suggest that flynn knew his communications were being monitored because multiple times he thanked the f. B. I. For helping refresh his memory. The mueller team has problems with inconsistencies in the t
Yes, the same trump family thats now leading the nation. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. A stunning turn of events today. Former National Security adviser to President Trump, Michael Flynn, was due to find out today if he is going to prison for lying to the fbi. And, in fact, based on the comments coming from the presiding judge, it looked to many observers as though flynn indeed was going to get locked up. But flynns attorneys requested a delay, and that can was kicked 90 days down the road. It was a dramatic hearing today with judge Emmett Sullivan telling flynn, quote, i am not hiding my disgust for your criminal offense, and even pressing on whether they considered charging flynn with treason. After a recess, sullivan tried to walk back some of those harsh comments, including saying he was merely asking about treason, not making an accusation. Sullivan had also inaccurately asserted that flynn had served as an agent for turkey at the same time he was National Security adviser
Of people its called the First Step Act for good reason. Theres a lot more that needs to be done. But there are a lot of people who will get relief from a system that punishes the wrong people the wrong way too often. And there are lots of good things about it. You said its a first step. It is. Im not sure which yard line were on, but if were in the football game, maybe its the 10 yard line. But that is 10 more yards further than we were. And the good thing is that this time it has things that are retroactive in it, that affects people who are serving right now rather than people who will be serving in the future. Yeah. There are people in jail now or prison who have no idea theyre going to be affected by it, positively probably, and they dont even know. Its also important how it got done. Mcconnell didnt want to have this vote. We know there was some ugliness in terms of people feeling it was too lenient on the right, that too many people were going to be helped by this bill. The hard
Be reined in. They discussed a range of options, and they took the step of opening an obstruction of justice investigation on donald trump, even before special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. This is according to multiple sources, and it was an idea were told the fbi has previously considered. But the probe wasnt opened officially until after comey was fired and before mueller was appointed. Now, the justification would be on trumps firing of comey and the president s conversation with comey in the oval office, asking him to drop the investigation to his former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Sources say the fbi would only take such a dramatic action if officials believed, suspected a crime had been committed. But we are told that rosenstein and other senior fbi officials had deep concerns as well about the president s behavior and thought that he needed to be checked according to the sources. As they considered various options related to the president in the hours and d
And we have proof that the president is trying to change the facts as he prepares for the political fight of his life. A key part of the trump tower moscow deal is being twisted up for political effect. We will prove what is true. Facts first. Lets get after it. Tonight, the facts fly in the face of the story, or at least the story the president would have you believe. Take a look at this. This is the letter of intent for the proposed trump tower moscow. All right. It is signed by donald j. Trump. How do i know . Because we have been told it was by his lawyer and it is. Ill show it to you in a second. Now, i want you to take a walk down memory lane to remind you of what the president , himself, has said about this project. First he said there was no deal. Listen to this. I have nothing to do with putin. I have nothing to do with russia. I have nothing to do with russia. We have nothing to do with russia. For a deal that didnt mean anything, its a lot of pages, man, with a lot of detail