oh, wow. that s an incredible number. i think the investigation goes in two directions. it goes beyond the bounds of bladen to see how widespread these irregularities spread. i think it goes up to see who knew what mr. dallas was doing, whether mark harris and whether the consultant thank you for your time. as soon as we went to north carolina, the flynn memo came out. it has been released by the special counsel s office of robert mueller. we ve been waiting all day for this. michael flynn very already pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the fbi, a recommended sentence of zero to six months for that crime. i m getting it here and i have dan goldman here, who has been
so we re in a bit of an unusual territory here and it s hard to read the tea leaves to figure out exactly why. i would expect the other thing, just to sort of frame it, is his sentencing range is very low. it s similar to the sense of these false statements others have had, which is essentially zero to six months, the guidelines are which the judge uses as default line starting point. he doesn t have to do much to get pro base, which is the lowest sentence he s going to get. so i m not sure that we are going to get the bombshell information revealing a lot of the investigation from this memo because he doesn t really need it. let me follow up on that. was it unusual to you that he pleaded to something so small and then cooperated for so long? like there s not that much on him. the thing they re holding over him, which is what their sentence recommendation is on
going on. they better come in, cooperate and cut their losses. with respect to the memo that i think we re all anxiously awaiting, chris, i ve filed hundreds of these memos in the 30 years i was a federal prosecutor, and i see three distinct possibilities here. one, mueller may say very little because the sentence that flynn is exposed to is only zero to six months. easy for us to say, it s not a consequential sentence. so mueller, i don t think, needs to say a lot to persuade the judge with respect to whatever sentence he s asking for. the second possibility as you may find, a split memo. part of it public, part of it under seal because it pertains to an ongoing aspect of the mueller investigation. the third, and i think the most likely candidate here is we are going to get a full blown, very complete factual recitation of many of flynn s crimes, why? that s going to be some more important messaging with respect to what the investigation has. glen makes a good point about the messag
consultant, a company called red dome group which hired mccray dallas. the investigation is continuing. i think more revelations will be coming every day right now. i want to talk about, michael, i want to talk about this man s history. and the history of elections in bladen county, from dave wasserman from the political report. in 2016 dallas worked for todd johnson who mails in absentees 221 for 1, and 437 to 17 over pittinger. it s a blatantly obvious absentee mail. it looks like something s going on here, huh? the numbers just do not lie. and the fact that 40% of bladen county s absentee mail ballot requests did not see a ballot returned indicates that something is up where the district average was only 24%
significant and probably damaging information. dan? the other thing that was sort of an open question is how much mueller was going to include in this sentencing memorandum. this is a by the book sentencing memorandum at this point. where you would not reveal any information about an ongoing investigation. you would you wouldn t do that for a variety of reasons. but because of the constant and repeated attacks on him, there was some speculation that maybe he would use this court filing to respond to those attacks, which have been no collusion, no collusion, no collusion and use this as an opportunity to explain some of the evidence of collusion to respond. and like bob mueller is, as a diligent, dedicated combat leader, this is his personality is to do it by the book, as you would expect.