contain information about a criminal case that mueller is going to bring due to information provided by michael flynn. okay. and it talks about why it s redacted, right? they said because it s still ongoing. asha, listen, there are significant redactions. renato just said that, in the filing released to the public. mueller refers to multiple investigations, including a criminal investigation, and then it s redacted right after that. what do you think he could be referring to? i don t want to speculate, but obviously there is a criminal investigation that is separate from the mueller investigation, and that is one thing that jumped out at me because if it s something that is actually occurring in a separate jurisdiction the way that he farmed out the cohen case to the southern district of new york, it starts to fit in with this pattern where mueller is, you know, handing off pieces that may not fit in directly with his mandate. but those are being pursued by other parts of the depar
mom. robert mueller s team in their filing with a federal judge late tonight cited michael flynn s early cooperation with the russia investigation, calling it particularly valuable. back with me, jack quinn, asha rangappa and renato mariotti. jack, i just want to read a little bit more from the filing. the filing talks about, page 5, the history and characteristics of the defendants and senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards. that s the short quote, but when it talks about his history and characteristics as a member of the military who served with honor, as a three-star
do the work yourself. or get it done by a pro. all roads lead to 4-w-p. do your rig right. shop online or find your store at 4-w-p.com. so this is the breaking news tonight. a huge development in the russia investigation. robert mueller says former national security adviser michael flynn has provided substantial assistance that s a quote to the russia investigation, and he recommends no prison time for flynn. let s bring in frank bruni, douglas brinkley. gentlemen, good evening to you. frank, mueller got 19 interviews from the president s national security adviser on top of 70 hours that he got from his personal attorney. right. two things. how do you think the president is going to react to this, and if you re in the white house, what are you saying right now? well, in terms of how he s
going to react, i guess the witching hour for twitter is tomorrow morning, right? maybe we ll have our answer then. i suspect we ll hear the phrases witch hunt and hoax. i think the president has already reacted to this. if you look at what he s done in recent weeks with tweets saying that mueller and his team were bullying witnesses and threatening them and making them say certain things to get off the hook. that s the sort of umbrella prophylactic reaction, you know, advance reaction that s meant to cover the michael cohen situation, that s meant to cover the michael flynn situation. i think he ll just continue that theme of saying you cannot trust whatever michael flynn said in those 19 interviews, and that s a big number that we have to pay attention to. these investigators aren t just wasting their time when they talk to someone. if they talk to someone for 19 different times, it means something, right? i mean so i think if you re in the white house, you have to look at that numbe
i agree with what asha just said. flynn, to me, not only did he commit crimes, and i agree with asha, there are other crimes he committed, at the very least, failing to register as a foreign agent. it seems to me the deal he got here was essentially being charged with this instead of something else. but i got to say flynn has exercised such poor judgment from day one, and really it s emblematic of the entire rens. flynn was the guy chanting lock her up. here you have a man who is, you know, a general, a person who has intel experience, who certainly has experience with how our justice system works chanting that the political opponent of the president should be, you know, thrown in jail without any due process for something that has never been charged as a crime before in that manner. so to me, the fact that that guy i agree with asha is inserting himself and interjecting himself in a presidential campaign, talking about foreign policy when he s being paid by another government to b