watergate but it seems to be something that continues to dog people here in washington that when they go before the f.b.i. on occasion, not everybody. when they go before the f.b.i., they don t tell the truth. and that s what gets them in trouble. because the fact that he was the fact it s the white house calling me. the fact that he was talking to kislyak, there is nothing wrong with that. it is the fact he lied to the f.b.i. about it, sandra, that was his downfall. let me take this and see if i can get back to you on something. sandra: a response from the white house, obviously. john, when you reflected back on michael flynn s military career it is important to remind everybody retired army lieutenant general, 33-year military career, director of intelligence for the u.s. central command, joint chiefs of staff and security assistant force all before his short time with president trump, so john roberts, thank you. i m sure we ll get back to you with an update from the white
we ll find out soon. not today, but we ll find out soon. today we will learn that the government promised that if mike flynn fully cooperates with them they won t charge him with the far more serious charges which would bring it up to the potential for 60 years. bill: it s hard to say how much clarification we have at the end of the day on all this, don t you think, judge, right now? that s a great observation. we won t have much clarification because the process of debriefing general flynn has not yet begun. what happened between the day before thanksgiving when the general s lawyers notified the white house that they were withdrawing from the joint defense agreement translates they were no longer on the same team as the president and would begin to point fingers was the general s lawyers began to tell f.b.i. agents and federal prosecutors what they believe their client has in his mind and in his records and in his
move with dispatch in establishing that you understand the charge and if you ve entered a plea you understand that as well. bill: your context is outstanding. thank you, jonathan turley by telephone there. thank you, sir, for being with us and we ll speak about this very soon. sandra: excellent perspective there. thank you for that. let s bring in the panel. juan williams and matt schlapp. you ve had a changes to listen to turley s comments there. this is a big moment. yeah. the question is how big and you don t want to, as john turley was saying, get ahead of your skis. but it would seem obvious from what we ve heard from judge napolitano and what we ve heard from jonathan turley that in the legal community assumption here is there is a plea deal at work that clearly michael flynn could have been charged with additional counts that would have given him up to 60 years in jail. in addition to which his son has some exposure in front of
house shortly. bill: we re awaiting the vote on the senate side. the wall street journal is reporting that bob corker is suggesting the tax bill will pass. debate begins at 11:00 eastern time. 30 minutes after we see general flynn appear. sandra: very important republicans on the fence flipped to yeses. bill: watch that story. the other thing at the state department, there is this whole question whether or not rex tillerson is on or off the job. he has lunch today with the president at the white house. moments ago tillerson was asked about whether or not the president wanted him to resign. he said it s laughable. he said it s laughable. we expect that lunch to continue and see if he is in or out. sandra: it was just announced his upcoming schedule. the spokesperson for the state department heather gnawer said tillerson will be traveling to brus el and paris in december for the multi-lateral meetings.
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