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absolutely love to let him speak unabated about such things. we have to remember that the special counsel s role is different than ours. his decision is who to bring to justice. ours is to find out exactly what happened, how to prevent in the future and how to inform the american public. so and i think you make a good point that there are things the special counsel is looking into, the southern district of new york is looking into. mother jones is publishing a story tonight which says, quote, flynn said he discussed with russian ambassador sergey kislyak a grand barg in which moskow would cooperate with the trump administration to resolve the syrian conflict and washington would end or ease up on the sanctions imposed on russia. these sanctions wer sanctioned imposed because of human rights
the president s attempts to distance himself from michael cohen and his former national security advisor, michael flynn. attempts that are often contradictory and obviously false. take cohen, this morning trump said michael cohen should have known better than to break campaign finance laws because cohen is a lawyer. but hours later trump tried to claim cohen was actually just a pr flack. first of all that was his title. very low level work. he did more public relations than he did law. he would see him on television, he was okay on television. in a matter of hours trump picked his own argument apart and then the president falsely claimed that michael flynn did not lie to the fbi. he did. and that prosecutors recommend flynn not serve any jail time because, quote, they re embarrassed. they re not. look. what s going on right now with general flynn? the fbi said he didn t lie. i saw your tweet on that. but mueller said he did lie.
general and a respected person and a nice man, and i don t even know what he said about me because maybe they scared him enough he ll make up a story. but they took a general that they said didn t lie and they convinced him he did lie and now they re making some sort of a deal. and they re embarrassed they got caught. who s they? for the record, which in front of you, michael flynn said in federal court that he entered into his guilty plea voluntarily and he entered a plea of guilty because he is guilty and for no other reason. they said he didn t lie. there s no they. it s no surprise that this week of stunning developments has the president on edge. nbc news reporting trump, quote, has told people close to him in recent days he s alarmed by the prospect of impeachment, according to multiple sources, end quote. joining us now, joyce vance, formal federal prosecutor, msnbc legal contributor, and harry
so they took a man who s a general and aerment respected p and a nice man, and i don t even know what he said about me because maybe they scared him enough he ll make up a story. but they took a general that they said didn t lie and they c convinced him he did lie and now they re making some sort of a deal. and they re embarrassed they got caught. who s they? for the record, which in front of you, michael flynn said in federal court that he entered into his guilty plea voluntarily and he entered a plea of guilty because he is guilty and for no other reason. they said he didn t lie. there s no they. it s no surprise that this week of stunning developments has the president on edge. nbc news reporting trump, quote, has told people close to him in recent days he s alarmed by the