against the justice department and fbi on behalf of the president. this certainly would be a substantial escalation if any member of congress or their associates weren t just exercising their own legislative powers in essentially preventing information from coming to congress, but actually were attempting to prevent michael flynn from cooperating with federal investigators. and so certainly other members of congress are going to have serious questions about who that refers to and what exactly occurred. bianna, how significant is it there apparently is a voicemail connected to all of this as well and the role congress will have presumably? they will want to get this. it could be very significant, wolf. it makes the republicans argument this is yet another witch-hunt and this is the mueller investigation do-over that much more difficult. there are few people who are arguably closer to then-candidate trump during the campaign than michael flynn. he relied on him for just about
breaking news this hour, we re getting new details of former national security adviser michael flynn s cooperation with special counsel robert mueller and his team including his help with mueller s obstruction investigation. they come in a less redacted version of memos from the court record and flynn s criminal case that have just been released. let s dig deeper with our analysts and our experts. evan perez, how valuable potentially is michael flynn in this investigation? it s clear, wolf, that he is among the most valuable witnesses in this investigation. certainly as we get a little bit more of these documents, which have been previously released, but which are now providing a lot more new details about what the cooperation entailed, including according to these documents essentially flynn describing who he talked to after his phone call with the former russian ambassador.
was a source of some of that information. we also learned from these newly redacted unredacted documents that there was some outreach from people associated with the administration. we now know a little bit more about what that was. they were reaching out to michael flynn, to his legal team. according to this document was intended to help essentially affect what kind of cooperation mi michael flynn was providing to the special counsel. according to the special counsel, some of the information they did not have until michael flynn provided it to them and that includes a voicemail from what appears to be a member of the trump legal team essentially talking a little bit about manufacture michael flynn s cooperation. this is new information that could again shed new light on exactly what was going on behind the scenes, as part of the special counsel s investigation into potential obstruction. and it underscores, wolf, why members of congress on capitol hill really want to hear from
his testimony. also breaking, cnn has learned the united states has determined that iran is using commercial freighters to move missiles. that s based on multiple images that show areas of the ship s decks have been removed, allowing them to dacarry hidden weapons. i will get reaction from david says lienee, who serves on the aforeign affairs committee. first, the new details of michael flynn s cooperation with special counsel robert mueller s team. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is joining us, cnn national legal analyst susan hennessy is with us as well. first of all, evan, what can you tell us? wolf, the first time we re hearing from the government just how valuable michael flynn has been to the special counsel s investigation. over 19 interviews the special counsel had with michael flynn and we re getting some new details that were just
say, you know, okay, look, you re guilty of perjury now, we need you to talk more about they can only do that if you lie to them. i don t think you should paint this as something that you don t have reason to believe it. is. you can say it s duplicative, overreaching, say it seems like politicized harassment. fine. those are all opinions. to set it up as something like that, you believe this is an injustice. you sound like the president. i believe the nadler investigation, house judiciary investigation is kind of redundant. redundant is different than a perjury trap. that s an abuse of the system. i understand that, chris. i believe i m susceptible to this because i don t trust the people who are inviting me there. by the way, they haven t invited me yet. they may not. another thing i want to tell you. please. when i worked at the house radio tv gallery back in the late 80s, i was responsible for broadcast television coverage of seven of the permanent