case with our headliner, white house press secretary sarah sanders will be joining us at the top of the next hour and this, of course, coming as the president tweets this morning good luck today in court to general michael flynn. the president ending that tweet, there was no collusion. really interesting analysis from michael mukasey who sets it up for will likely be a pretty big morning as we await that sentencing. bill: there was drama last week with cohen and there will be drama today and see if flynn has a chance to talk. it has been two years he kept his mouth shut. stand by for that. 11 past the hour. fired f.b.i. director james comey lashing out at republicans yesterday. people who know better, including republican members of this body, have to have the courage to stand up and speak the truth. not be cowed by mean tweets or fear of their base. there is a truth and they aren t telling it. their silence is shameful. bill: there is a lot of
party, not the republican party, in large measure because of social issues and how they view those issues. and i think there is also no question that because of those inherent points of view, that these social media platforms have to be rigorous about making sure that their editorial control doesn t bias their platforms. i think there is no question about that. sandra: fascinating stuff. bill: more to come. hope you come back, okay? merry christmas to you, thank you so much for having me. we have bob dole on the podcast today. bill: an american legend. thank you so much for that. back to our top story. sandra: michael flynn arriving for his sentencing moments ago. what will happen inside that federal courthouse just 30 minutes from now. alan dershowitz is here with his analysis of flynn s plea and the controversy surrounding his questioning.
public comments of the fact that they sent people over here, encouraged flynn not to include white house counsel s office. totally out of protocol for an f.b.i. interview. they went around. he even said they did this because they thought they could get away with it because the trump administration was new. bill: do you believe the tactics were illegal? that s something that the court will have to determine whether or not it was illegal. but it was certainly inappropriate and certainly not the way that the f.b.i. should conduct itself as the leading law enforcement agency of this country. bill: last point. do you and the president believe that mike flynn broke the law? you know, that s something again that we ll let the courts make that determination. we ll see what happens in that later today. certainly i think one thing is definitely clear is we think that the f.b.i. went outside of the bounds and the scope of way they should operate and how
where he said he thought he could get away with sending f.b.i. agents in to talk to flynn because the trump administration was new, it was a little disorganized. they weren t structured and staff the way that other white house s were and he thought he had a window of opportunity to get the information in a way that he couldn t have done with the obama administration or bush administration. that was pretty interesting to me. sandra: it will all come down to a pretty big moment here again we re 90 minutes away. how would you say or how would you rate expectations as far as this sentencing is concerned based on what we know and getting a look at those documents? yes. my guess is that flynn has a very, very good chance today of escaping this situation without being sentenced to jail time. we know that bob mueller has emphasized the cooperation that flynn has given. mueller has signaled it would be acceptable from the government s perspective not to have him serve time in jail. the judg
i discovered the potential with ozempic®. oh! oh! oh! ozempic®! (vo) ask your healthcare provider if ozempic® is right for you. sandra: we are about 90 minutes away from the sentencing of the president s former national security advisor michael flynn as we get a look at heavily redacted documents from flynn s f.b.i. interview back in 2017. tom dupree is a former assistant attorney general under george w. bush. thank you for being here this morning. it is likely going to be a big morning where we learn a lot more as we await the sentencing. what are your expectations? a couple things i will look for here. the first is whether there is any colloquy, any exchange or conversation between the judge and mr. flynn. we saw in the cohen sentencing cohen explained why he did what he did and blamed the president and that sort of thing.