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the last few days, though, is that his defense team made a decision to try to have it both ways, and in their pleading to the judge, they argued that, in part, yes, he pled guilty, but he also was perhaps not quite aware of the circumstances of the interview, maybe didn t understand that it was wrong to lie, and they inferred some things in that document. the judge took them seriously, and so he ordered that the fbi release the written record, the written document, which is called the 302 of the fbi interview, so the judge actually was giving michael flynn and his defense team the benefit of the doubt, but those records, which were released yesterday, show that the fbi conducted themselves appropriately in the interview. and so when the judge came into court today, he then had to call michael flynn out and say, well, which is it? did you not understand what was going on in the interview? or you know, is your plea actually legitimate? and so michael flynn had to acknowledge that, yes, h
and i think this is such a situation. i think lindsey graham is correct in theory. that s about as far as it goes. his lawyers are telling the judges involved in that case that he was essentially set up. do you think he was? i think if i was the president of the united states and i found out after the fact that jim comay snuck to agents into the white house unbeknownst to the white house counsel and chief of staff in order to ask michael flynn questions about which investigators already knew the answers to because they have the transcripts and i found out that that happened later on that alone would have been cause it to fire the fbi director. i don t know what was going on here. but what i do know is it looks like they were trying to gain additional information to be used to try to get michael
crime. the fbi shouldn t suggest you don t need counsel and then squeeze you and get you to sing and that s not way that they should operate and every republican and democrat should be concerned about this. if the shoe was on the other foot, hillary clinton s people, every civil libertarian would be up in arms. but today they re applauding this technique. neil: all right, thank you. and emanuel cleaver, the prominent democrat, i d be remiss if i didn t ask you to address what alan cher dershowitz has said and there should be more house investigations as a result. what do you say? well, you know, the professor and i probably disagree. he knows obviously much more about law, but when you become a lieutenant general, when you re the national security advisor, you re working with fbi agents, you re working with people in
with have to purchase here and now the department of interior. thank you very much. the fall out after fallout after special counsel said that documents exactly what happened. in those documents the special counsel really pushes back against accusations that they acted improperly. an interview with michael flynn. in that interview was a basis for charges against him. and that he lied to the fbi. the newly released documents confirmed those claims that the agents never informed flynn that lied to them was a crime. as a report known as a 302 of that meeting it states that