get to come in and just say the government tricked me. on one handed it may have been sullivan getting something off his chest or expressing disdain for what the flynn team did. worth noting flynn walked that completely back. flynn said i knew you are not supposed to lie to the fbi and i accept what i did. but it seemed like it went further than that for the judge, it seemed having gotten that off his chest, he didn t just resume normal operations. he implied what would possibly be a probation sentence new york city jail time at all, he could impose a greater sentence. it s almost like he s saying it doesn t matter the deal you cut, i m still the judge. and ken got it absolutely right. the judge has the final say here. judge sullivan has a reputation for being a sort of compassionate guy when it comes to sentencing, but as ken notes, he s got very little patience for government misconduct, and in this regard, michael flynn is the government.
boringly consistent. it s going to be more of i don t know, i don t remember. if it has anything to do with being critical of him. it s extraordinary what the flynn team has done. flynn has very good lawyers, so they know what they re doing. what he s doing now, he s saying the fbi tricked him to pleading guilty. neil: you believe that, john? i think they re going to be in for quite a surprise. the judge is the same judge that presided over the senator stephens trial where they found misconduct by the prosecutor. and ordered an investigation of the prosecutors. he s ordered all of the fbi memos to be produced and there will be a hearing. flynn could have walked away and not done this with probation and would have been behind him. something made him feel compelled to come forward. so yes, absolutely something happened. i think the big news story will be flynn and what happens in court tomorrow and why did he
is that the judge overseeing michael flynn s sentencing may have additional questions about the accusations that flynn has made and the arguments that the special counsel has provided in response to those accusations, and he the judge may also want to hear from flynn, flynn s attorneys, about why some of these claims are being made now as opposed to when flynn pleaded, which was about a year ago. and so the impact on the actual sentence that flynn receives is not necessarily significant, but it may the proceeding that is going to take place may elicit some further developments or some further insight into how this actually played out. do we have any idea why the flynn team would have come out sort of wingiswinging like this alleging that the fbi agents didn t tell flynn it was illegal to lie? it seemed like everything was going swimmingly and he was on his way to no jail time at all
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close in positions where he s been accused of nepotism and there s been questions raised about whether it s wise because the liabilities of his children, you know, are reflecting back on him because they re working in official positions in the white house. it reads like a script from like kind of a bad 80s movie in a way to have that line be said that way, but it shows that mulvaney has kind of figured out how to read the president, how to work the president, and it s been successful for him thus far, having something like that video come out that shows that maybe it was all intention and not as genuine as it appeared might undercut the work he s being doing to self-promote. it s not easy to survive in this white house for two years. mick mulvaney has figured out a way. he voted against the very kinds of compromises that this white house is going to have to strike on things like government funding. he was an instigator of the 2013 government shutdown, which the incoming minority lea