he comes from a very big family in rhode island. probably about a dozen family members in the courtroom. everybody was in a pretty good mood. you saw them at the beginning and then everything changed. you hear the words treason from the judge. you sold your country out, talking directly to michael flynn, the president s former national security adviser. this judge keeping us on the edge of our seats as we await to learn the fate of michael flynn. as shimon pointed out, we may not find out today. it is unclear as this judge took a recess, giving both sides time to think. high drama inside that courtroom. john? pam, evan, and shimon, thank you. the judge moments away from resuming the hearing. was he sending a signal and saying based on everything i know, i might send you to prison. maybe you want to delay this until we see the full extent of the cooperation. the prosecutor said it remains a
here. this judge keeps wanting to delay this. how many times now? we have heard the judge say are you ready to go do this today? this judge, emmet sullivan appointed by bush, reagan, and clinton, the wild card in the proceedings today. shimon and pam, stay with us and come back as we get more information. perhaps we shouldn t be surprised. disruption and detours are the order of the day in the age of trump. the judge keeps asking michael flynn, are you sure? are you sure? the judge called and scheduled a hearing. he said yes, he wanted to be there. what s going on? part is the issues they raised in the pleadings within the last several days and just last night, the judge ordered the release of the interviewed transcripts. they introduced all of this uncertainty and then the hearing was previously scheduled for today. he is making sure and giving
consideration of what he publicly said. evan perez is in the courtroom as the drama played out. they are asking if he wants to withdraw his plea and he said no, i want to go forward. in the end, confronting michael flynn. do you understand where you were when you told the lies. take us inside the courtroom. john, look. i think everybody in the courtroom was simply stunned the way the judge approached this because when you have prosecutors recommending no prison time, you have the defense agreeing that the prosecutors are describing how much cooperation that flynn has given. valuable cooperation. the judge simply is not buying that michael flynn is accepting full responsibility for this. he simply goes into the offenses that michael flynn pleaded guilty to including the fact that he was an unregistered foreign agent during the time that he was serving and the
way and it s going a different way, but maybe now going back to the way it was supposed to go. lots of wild cards and high drama. really the prosecutors here. you are seeing an effort to try to protect michael flynn. they told the judge they had no concern or no reason to think flynn obviously is by our folks in the courtroom. the judge walking this back. certainly back pedalling and let s see what happens as this goes. his attorneys are now speaking. michael flynn s attorneys are now talking. it s to say neither side expect it to go the way it was going. it was anticipated that this would wrap up quickly.
federal agency. his lawyers did make a mistake and they inferred he was somehow and department understand the circumstan circumstances with the fbi. he pled guilty. this should have been a straight forward hearing. all they had to do was say we accept the prosecution of zero jail time and here are the things he had done to that mi mitigate and they should have been done by now. they raised issues that didn t need to be raise and they made the judge look behind the actual interview by releasing the summary of the investigative interview and that was exculpatory and shows there was no bad behavior and michael flynn knew what he was doing. and it shows to bringents ab flynn as done that put the lie to what the president has been saying. it all sort of conspires to