I thought ok. Here we are. Heres the big test of rachels super powers, and you rose to that test beautifully. Its amazing highway you managed to deliver everything thats in these documents in the lasthour. Thank you, reeshl. About 8 30 p. M. , the fed District Court in washington finally released the document that washington and all the news media have been waiting for all day. These are filings by special prosecutor mueller with his recommended sentence for his First National security advisory Michael Flynn. Hes recommending a sentence that does not impose a sentence of incarceration. After President Trump signalling that he is considering pardons, particularly pardon for Paul Manafort, tonight Robert Mueller showed that one way to get no jail time at all is to cooperate with Robert Mueller. Now that we have the documents, we can see why it took so long for the court to release them today. There are substantial redactions in the second document release tonight which specifies exactly
The campaign, it seems like that might be right on time. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel e. One of the things thats left as a mystery tonight is why, the motivation from mike flynn to have lied to the fbi. The lying is described and the sequence of the lying, and the range of the lying is described. But at no point does the special prosecutor say this is why he lied. He lied, and we know that there were other senior members of the transition. Tom bossert, k. T. Mcfarland, reince priebus, sean spicer, a lot of other people who were fully read in on the fact that mike flynn was talking to the russians about sanctions. They were c. C. d on emails and they discussed the fact he was doing it. Why did they all lie about the conversations as well . Flynn was lying about it publicly, lying to other members of the Trump Administration apparently about it, lying to the