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he s out of here. about your party? announcer: this is cnn and that he is now saying, will breaking news. hurd is saying i want to help welcome to the lead. change the republican party to i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in the politics lead. make it look more like america. a major embarrassment and defeat how is he going to do that? for president trump. that is my big question. what do you do with this party forced to give up his choice for that is becoming more and more the next director of national white male? intelligence. because the gender issue is a on sunday via twitter the president announced he would big one, too. nominate congressman john you were politico had a funny ratcliff for the job. on tuesday the leading statistic you mentioned earlier. democratic moderate in the senate joe manchin of west there are more men named jim virginia announced he would not who are white house republicans get his vote and privately than female members of congress sena
tonight we have assembled the human twister equivalent of a magic eight ball, only for legal questions. we promise we will not shake them. former u.s. attorneys, thank you again. we re just talking in the lightning round about the prospect of the president trying to end mueller s investigation by firing the special counsel. aside from the prospects of how exactly the president would have to go about that and who he d have to fire and psych sigo mattic massacre and all that stuff, if robert mueller was dismissed tomorrow, viewer jeff wants to know, what would happen to flynn s guilty plea? would happen to the manafort indictment? what would happen to the justice department s involvement with guilty pleas and sentencing? the firing of mueller does not necessarily end the investigation. he can only be fired for just
president trump can pardon michael flynn, he couldn t pardon him from state crimes that he might be exposed to. they could use that for leverage, as well, potentially. that brings me to another question i have been wondering about with flynn s deal. we got a great question from a viewer named jim who wrote and said why would a defendant agree to a plea deal that flynn did? it doesn t really protect him from much. and i think what jim is getting at there is what is in the plea deal, what s in the statement of the offense and everything is not very much information. and maybe that means they don t have very much on flynn but it s my understanding that at least in some jurisdictions, when you get a guilty plea, you layout every single thing you got expect them and expect the agreements to be juicy. this was very thin. even if you don t write out in the plea agreement everything the person admitted to. let s take a step back. when this conversation happens between flynn or someone in
conference room with these prosecutors? does he testify to the grand jury at any point? he could. the first thing that happens is a proffer and the proffer can be used for certain things not others. it can t be introduced by the government in a case as an admission or confession by michael flynn. this is what he testified to, ladies and gentlemen and therefore you should convict him of x. it can be used for other things if he testifies inconsistently, they can cross kp-examine him. if i m bob muller and if i ve heard the president of the united states imply that he s thinking about a pardon for mike flynn, i m getting mike flynn into the grand jury to testify under oath as quickly as i can so that that testimony, whatever testimony he s going to give is lockdown. all right. one last question for you on flynn and then we ll take a quick break. we got a question from viewer jean and jean wants to ask,