a judge originally appointed by ronald reagan postponed the sentencing for ex white house national security adviser michael flynn. while delivering a stinging rebuke of the retired army general s ethics and warning he might not spare flynn from prison for his crime. this after flynn rejected several offers to challenge the zs of his fbi interview affirming to the court that he would give up his right to do so forever. the answering that he was guilty, sullivan told flynn, quote, you lied to the fbi about three different topics and you made those false statements while you were serving as the national security adviser. the president of the united
on the prosecutors. if we re in there doing something, and i ve appeared before him, we re doing something not to his liking, no the quickly or efficiently enough, believe me, we are going to hear about it. yesterday general flynn was government misconduct personified and i think that s why judge sullivan focused on him. glen, you have a piece entitled is a trump indictment possible: mueller and the doj can and should reevaluate the office of legal counsel s memo. if you could expand upon that. sure. so it seems to me that there are a couple of reasons that the department of justice through the office of legal counsel has rendered this opinion over time that you can t indict a sitting president. one is that because the legislative branch has a mechanism to handle a criminal president impeachment, then we
i m going pick up the phone and call you. what you just heard from dan chen shaw is it s who and what we need more of in the united states congress and it s who and what we need more of living around us, next door in our towns. understanding and empathy. still ahead, we ll continue the conversation that we started at the top of the hour. but what did and didn t happen at michael flynn s hearing yesterday. we ll be joined by a federal prosecutor who once worked with special counsel robert mueller. morning joe is coming right back. robert mueller morning joe is coming right back at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected
so he s seen the the conduct that flynn engaged in and it looks to me like the essential problem he has with the government is he disagrees with the charging decision. the government charged flynn with essentially lying to the fbi. it carries a relatively low sentence under the sentencing guidelines. judge sullivan seemed to think that he should have been charge dollars with more significant crimes and that looks like the origin of the issue that we saw yesterday. joyce, to that point, did you get a sense from the judge s comments from the bench that the mention of petraeus, the redactions that he clearly has read that we have no we have not seen, his anger at the sentencing disparities involved here where you have a three star about to walk on a serious charge, where you had general petraeus who was walked on a serious charge.
cooperate so that we can get more extract more information from you. what does that meaner for the special counsel s investigation, to have him as a continuing source of information? it may be like an unwanted house guest. willie, he has met with special counsel s office 19 times. the prosecutor said we have everything we need. we re comfortable going to sentencing yesterday. maybe there s more stuff they can ring out of general flynn. although i think it s probably run its course. but they ll try. and it may be the case that he s necessary for that new matter recently indicted in virginia regard two people from turkey. joyce, was the judge out of line yesterday? i see it in many ways like chuck does. bandien treason about in a courtroom is surprise to go