administration. served at counsel of the white house administration. harry, i m a layperson here, but i was surprised by the mueller filing today. it s as if they wanted to course correct some bad reporting that was being told kind of sympathetically toward flynn that this poor man had been duped and set up to lie to the fbi. yeah, it was a very odd kind of episode. flynn, who s been an exemplary all the way through had a last-minute hiccup and suggestion that was seconded by many on the right that it wasn t a crime at all and he should have had warnings. it s a weak argument. i would have been neither required or customary to give warnings to a guy like this. as mueller says, you know you re
friday night. good evening once again from our msnbc news head quarterers. day 694 of the trump administration. again tonight, we are following important developments on multiple fronts. we have learned omb director mick mulvaney will be taking over as the acting white house chief of staff. the president s former personal lawyer michael cohen is speaking out on national television, saying donald trump knew the hush money payments made just before the 2016 election were wrong. also today, robert mueller s team rejected michael flynn s suggestion that he should have been warned about the consequences of lying to the feds. lying to the fbi. in response to flynn s sentencing memo that was filed on tuesday, feds said there was nothing about the way the interview conducted that caused flynn to lie about his meetings with the russian ambassador.
flynn. even if both sides agree, the former national security adviser shouldn t do much, if any, time. it s interesting. mueller said flynn was committed to his false story. he s saying to the court, don t buy this. that he was set up. don t buy he meant to lie. he meant to lie. he lied a lot. we caught him. that s the real deal. why is this important? because it shows how mueller and his team view lying. all right? nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements. that s another quote from the filing. mueller s own filing shows the fbi tactics didn t sit well at the time. we know sally yates wasn t happy and some people whose names were redacted argued about the decision to interview flynn. and the fbi said he didn t feel he was being deceptive. the special counsel says they may have thought that, but it didn t change the fact that flynn was lying and admitted to it. it s all fodder for cuomo s court.
buy this. don t buy he meant to lie. he meant to lie. he lied a lot. we caught him. that s the real deal. why is this important? because it shows how mueller and his team view lying. all right? nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements. that s another quote from the filing. mueller s own filing shows the fbi tactics didn t sit well at the time. we know sally yates wasn t happy and some people s whose names were redacted are upset about the decision to interview flynn. the special counsel says they may have thought that, but it didn t change the fact that flynn was lying and admitted to it. it s all fodder for cuomo s court. here s where i find it so interesting. this is the first window that we ve had where we see how mueller thinks about lying. now, i took the time to go back and read his report on the nfl and how they dealt with ray rice
sanctions with kislyak? they gave him every chance to walk away from his earlier statement and he did exactly the opposite. he doubled down. i don t see how that counts as a perjury trap under any definition of the term so donna edwards, this mueller filing today was as if they heard this fiction developing and wanted to correct it. that means there s an audience of one, a federal judge. number one is a freeze frame from fox coverage this week. look at their banner headline. fbi didn t explain that lying would put flynn in legal jeopardy. that s not in jest. that was put on the screen seriously. retired general mark hurtical was on twitter today saying this. as a former lieutenant general, i can attest that one learns not to lie to the fbi much earlier in one s career and at a much