shred the constitution, shred the fourth amendment to spy on the trump campaign associate and they are the people in charge of looking into russian collusion? exactly. they lied to the fisa court and mr. rosenstein signed the application, and mr. comey signed the applications. others who signed those applications as well, whose names have been redacted. we need to know who those people are. the investigations that mr. mueller started should have been of those people and never of the trump campaign at all. it s egregious government misconduct. the mueller witch-hunt should be ended immediately and the entire team disbanded. they are the ones that should be investigated. sean: will the law be followed? i don t know, sean, i mean, i m still concerned about mr. barr s personal relationshiph with mr. mueller. sean: so am i. you are not? no. look, the bottom line here there was no trump collusion but there was hillary fbi department of justice collusion and four people on mueller s
shred the fourth amendment to spy on the trump campaign associate and they are the people in charge of looking into russian collusion? exactly they lied to the fisa court and mr. rosenstein signed the application and mr. comey signed the applications. there are others who signed those applications as well whose names have been redacted. we need to know who those people are the investigations that mr. mueller started should have been of those people and never of the trump campaign at all. it s egregious government misconduct. the mueller witch-hunt should be ended immediately and the entire team disbanded. they are the ones that be investigated. i don t know, sean, i mean, i m still concerned about mr. barr s personal relationship with mr. mueller. sean: so am i. you are not? look, the bottom line here there was no trump collusion but there was hillary fbi department of justice collusion and four
corosive it is for someone of his stature in the u.s. government to lie. just talk a little bit about the general mindset amongst federal prosecutors about lying in the context of an investigation. nicolle, i was actually in the courtroom at what i will call the attempted sentencing of michael flynn. i saw judge emmet sullivan, who i appeared perfect when i was a prosecutor here in d.c., just absolutely take him to task. judge sullivan, who often lays into prosecutors if we re not doing something quickly enough or efficiently enough, really looked at general flynn as government misconduct personified. because the national security adviser getting caught talking dirty to the russians on the phone and then lying about it, it really doesn t get more egregious or more damaging to our national security than that. and, you know, couple that with the fact that he has now been cooperating over the course of so many meetings with the mueller team, and even in his
to withdraw your plea? then he goes after the guy. what is your interpretation today? emmet sullivan is one of the most respected judges around. after the ted stevens case, he said i do want with this kind of government misconduct. but flynn s lawyers played it cute. what is your theory of the case? you always have to have a consistent theory. to flynn decided to cooperate all the way, the government moved forward no prosecution and then they throw the curveball, which is appropriate. but as a curveball on the government misconduct if you want to withdraw the plea come out if you want to continue to be a cooperator. judge sullivan was left with no place to go in a sense and as you said correctly, he offered flynn the opportunity. flynn had to withdraw before the sentencing and i thought flynn should have withdrawn his plea a long time ago. i don t believe he committed a crime and if he did, it was a manufactured crime, and as jim comey said, comey got away with what he pulled on flyn
offense. what image do we get of general flynn from these fbi reports that were released last night? i think someone who was very reckless, despite ascending to a very senior position in government, despite 33 years of service in the military was very reckless in this interview. he did this interview and lied. even though in his conversation with andy mccabe, then the deputy director of the fbi two hours before he held the interview, he seemed to acknowledge that he knew the fbi already knew the answers to the questions, that they would have been listening to that confecon and he went ahead and lied anyway. there is probably no judge in the country more receptive to a claim of government misconduct than judge sullivan. he was the judge in the ted stevens case where the republican senator from alaska was convicted. that conviction was dismissed because of government misconduct, and he regularly kind of beats the government you know, beats up on the government, has spoken out publicl