Prosecutors aren t involving themselves in this process at all? it s a very good question. i suppose it will come down to whether or not the judge is satis satisfy, whether the prosecution submits additional information or the judge has a change of heart or whether he really wants to see flynn go down to that very last, you know, finishing spot. i will say, rachel, it s unusual for prosecutors to be willing to give a cooperator credit at sentencing before his cooperation is done, before he testifies in the last case. here we have the government saying his cooperation is complete, so i think that there is something that we don t know that bob mueller s team does. in terms of looking ahead to this news tomorrow, i think we re now just waiting for the judge s order in response to this joint submission in the flynn case, right? but in the manafort case, we are going to have his sentence second sentencing hearing tomorrow before judge amy berman jackson in washington, d.c. anything th
I hope this is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter for any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? i don t know well enough to answer and the reason i keep saying his words is, i took it as a direction. right. this is the president of the united states, with me alone, saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. allegations that trump obstructed justice intensified after former fbi director james comey testified before the senate intelligence committee. comey said he believed trump was directing him to drop the investigation into general mike flynn who just resigned as trump s national security
President, about mccabe s interview on 60 minutes, at least in part, he said this. this was the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action. were those discussions that mccabe and rosenstein, according to mccabe, had, illegal and treasonous? they weren t illegal and treasonous. they weren t particularly good ideas which is why they didn t actually happen. i think we need to take ourselves back to what the situation the justice department and fbi officials were faciing n that moment. they were investigating russian election interference. they d seen an absolutely disturbing, bizarre, number of contacts with the campaign of the individual who would become president. they re interviewing michael flynn for his contacts with russians and lies about those contacts. the president of the united states asked the fbi director to see his way to letting flynn go, which the fbi believes is potentially obstruction of justice. then the president actually fires the fbi director which
I would urge anybody, nicolle, who has doubts about mccabe or wonders what this is all about, watch that 60 minutes interview front to back and make your own assessments. i think you ll conclude andy mccabe is very credible and he is saying very alarming things. i want to go into what you raised, and that is the counterintelligence investigation opened after the firing of fbi director jim comey. this was first reported by the new york times. this is the first time in this interview, and i agree with your viewing recommendation. every should watch the 60 minutes interview in its entirety. but what we have in this testimony on television and in the book from andy mccabe is a new interpretation of what the firing of jim comey was. we ve processed it and we covered it although it was an act of obstructing, stopping the russia probe, of comey saying trump asked him to let flynn go, it was about stopping the
Of the incidents that you guys reported, the president s statements about nato, the president s conduct around firing comey and after asking him to see to it to let flynn go, it certainly is consistent with the kind of narrative that would have given the fbi at the highest levels those concerns. yeah, that s right. the thing that is so interesting today as you read the experts the times interview with the president, the president is right. so you can see why the president is saying, why are we talking about this again? the reason they re talking about it is he kept saying we weren t talking to the russians. no, nobody was talking to the russians. and it s just been like two years of no, actually he was talking to the russians and that guy was talking to the russians and we were trying to do a deal with trump tower and that continued longer than we said. yes, they didn t do the deal and it wouldn t have been illegal. why do they keep lying? i feel like that s the theme of the first