blasting james comey. what we do know that was inappropriate, self-admitted of james comey, is that the fbi broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambushed general flynn and in the way that they questioned him and in the way that they encouraged him not to have white house counsel s office present. we know that because james comey told us that, and he said that the very reason they did it was because the only reason they did it, it was the trump administration and they thought they could get away with it. jesse: all right, dana, the judge making a lot of headlines. judge emmet sullivan has a very good reputation. but he said the treason thing then he walked it back. then he said you were working for a foreign government while you are working in the white house, talking about turkey. then he got the dates wrong and had to correct it. what did you think about the days events? dana: it s good to remember that judges have this discretion in power and it s one of the
to get jail time today. flynn s team asked for a recess. they go back and they re going to delay it now for three months. jesse: if you are looking at no jail time, i wouldn t start with anything that could lock you up even for a day. i would not do well in prison, greg, everyone knows that. greg: as long as you don t flirt. jesse: only you would do worse than i would do. greg: thank you. today was like when you re on the tarmac of a delayed flight and the guy comes on and says now we are going back to the gate. oh, we re going back to the gate. a couple thoughts. the judge seemed very disgusted with flynn. i think it s because flynn didn t give the judge what they want what he wanted. they didn t get everything they needed. the judge wanted a playstation for christmas but he got a jumping rope. that s how i got from that. but i m going to go back to the question that i asked that people hate, is this news? it s a news hangover. this is the lingering headache and nausea from
it feels really dramatic. it s really important, but it s not. it s not. this is just the only game in town right now because it s the holidays and because under trump, the country is rolling along pretty well. try to ignore the stock market because it s the end of the year. that tends to happen. things are going along. we have declines in crime, terror. optimism is high. the media needs to focus on this thing, this comey, flynn, collision. it s like a triangle of idiocy. by the way, i do believe it or if anything happens you will get pardoned. i think he deserves a pardon. if you compared to previous pardons, this is nothing compared to the people clinton pardon. clinton pardon how many people on the last day? 16 terrorists. 16 people who tried to bomb our country or did bomb our country. if you safely flynn doesn t deserve a pardon, read your
put on the bench. president trump s focus from day one has been trying to get as many judges confirmed as possible, and the senate has been able to fulfill that. emmet sullivan is known to somebody, he gets a lot of cases through his court. he s not shy about getting press attention. earlier this week, i guess monday, he went from hero to zero in a week. he had asked, i want to more about the situation. if you came here and you pled guilty but you are saying now that the fbi agents tricked you. i need to know more about that and i want everyone to deliver the documents to me. for a week, we spent it thinking the judge is going to throw the case out because of this thing, the first thing he asked two days do you want to change your plea? no. i think in the court of public opinion, that works a little bit. flynn s lawyers did an excellent job of getting him to where he is where he was going to get no jail time. with the judge, they have discretion. sentencing guidelines only that. they a
prosecutors he believed engaged in misconduct. this is not a judge who is any weak willow. this is a strong, competent judge, well respected by both sides. here s the thing. when you say to someone like mike flynn, you sold out your country, jesse, i don t think there s anything more damning than that. this comes from a judge who as you said got the 302. jesse: can you explain why did the judge say you sold out your country. what specifically was he pointing to? dana: one of the things that s frustrating as they should have kept the whole thing under seal so to not give us a look at this document that has three quarters of it redacted. the judge has read the whole thing unredacted. we don t get to know. that s why that s what we don t know. juan: to what dana said, i think this is key in response to what greg said about everyone who got pardoned. mike flynn, not only was he advising a presidential candidate while also