Phil mattingly, thank you so much. Dana bash who used to run up and down those halls for years and years and years. Phil has talked to folks on both sides of the aisle. Confident that the house will get to this and nancy pelosi was so key in brokering this deal why is she standing there now for fourplus hours and saying no . I saw you write that down and because youre you, is why you picked up what you did about nancy pelosi. To people at home, it makes no sense. Not at all. Because shes getting attention for the issue shes upset is not in there. She understood because she is as sort of seasoned and tough as a legislator as they come, that at the end of the day, we saw what happened in the senate a few weeks ago. They tried to use the Immigration Issue as leverage for keeping the government open and it didnt work. Shut the government down. It didnt work out so politically, at least in the short term, for democrats. Nancy pelosi is making using the megaphone that she has by saying, you
a federal judge has rejected former national security michael flynn s claim that he was targeted by politically motivated federal agents. flynn s attorneys accuse prosecutors of suppressing evidence and allegation he was targeted by federal investigators for quote concocted and political purposes. they also argue that flynn was coerced into pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia. but in a 92-page ruling, the u.s. district judge ruled yesterday, refuted the arguments, effectively ending the former national security visor s chances at getting the conviction tossed out a sentencing date is now set for the 28th of january. joining us here on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. danny, good morning to you. what do you make about this ruling against michael flynn? michael flynn may have had this defense and it may have been effective but the time to
here is how they went alternatively. speaker pelosi now apparently telling senior democrats she d like to see trump behind bars. based on no actual crime she wants a political opponent locked up in prison? that happens in banana republics. beyond despicable behavior. and, by the way, they would literally turn in many ways the usa into a country we no longer recognize. back to what we re talking about i m sorry. i missed part of that. i was hearing this vague chant of lock her up, michael flynn may have said that at the convention. mark for identification, i believe i heard him say that at the convention. why leave a voicemail like that on someone i don t know. i don t know. but, you know, i read the transcript like everybody, and i didn t get all of that out of the transcript. you re right about that. and it is the the hesitancy and the consciousness that this isn t you know, i ve got to sort of talk my way around this
tonight. here is how they went alternatively. speaker pelosi now apparently telling senior democrats she d like to see trump behind bars. based on no actual crime she wants a political opponent locked up in prison? that happens in banana republics. beyond despicable behavior. and, by the way, they would literally turn in many ways the usa in a country we no longer recognize. back to what we re talking about i m sorry. i missed part of that. i was hearing this vague chant of lock her up, michael flynn may have said that at the convention. why leave a voicemail like that on someone i don t know. i don t know. but, you know, i read the transcript like everybody, and i didn t get all of that out of the transcript. you re right about that. and it is the the hesitancy and the consciousness that this
and having mueller testify, even though he doesn t want to. eugene, it won t surprise you to learn that, shall we say, fox news did not dwell on this story tonight. here is how they went alternatively. speaker pelosi now apparently telling senior democrats she d like to see trump behind bars. based on no actual crime she wants a political opponent locked up in prison? that happens in banana republics. beyond despicable behavior. and, by the way, they would literally turn in many ways the usa in a country we no longer recognize. back to what we re talking about i m sorry. i missed part of that. i was hearing this vague chant of lock her up, michael flynn may have said that at the convention. why leave a voicemail like that on someone i don t know. i don t know. but, you know, i read the transcript like everybody, and i didn t get all of that out of the transcript. you re right about that. and it is the the hesitancy and the consciousness that this isn t you know, i