undo the sanctions imposed by t the obama administration. but you talking about the details. in the cooperation agreement. shows how strong this vice is that mueller has put general flynn in. and that he can tighten the lever on the vice, particularly through tools, yes, you cannot in a courtroom use evidence obtained from a lie detector test but certainly use that test to squeeze the defendant harder and harder for information and threaten him with further indictment perjurous information, et cetera, et cetera. the other significant thing about this is it is not proof of collusion what is in this statement. it is definitely not proof of collusion. but it shows how methodical mueller is in building a case that there was something, some
of the threat matrix, and gloria borger senior analyst. let me start with you gloria, we thought we would talking tax cuts. and what a huge piece of information that dropped today. what was your first reaction when you heard about this? well, you know, my first reaction was we kind of knew this was going to come. but we weren t quite sure whether he was cooperating or not cooperating. now we have discovered that he is cooperating. and what is interesting and important, and michael knows so much more about this than i do, and probably garrett as well, but what is so important here is that in the statement of offense what we see is that flynn is telling them, you know, get him on lying, get him on lying about
less money, than paul manafort sits locked up at home facing 80 years in prison, and here s flynn pleading to one count information with five year maximum and with cooperation six months likely sentence. that tells you that he has to be cooperating about people who are important to mueller and the investigation that mueller has. and that s a very small handful of people. it could be the president, it cob his son, it could be his son-in-law, it could be steve bannon, advance prvance priebus it could be anyone that s more important than general flynn. so its a reasonable deduction to make from what happened today, but it is just that, it s speculation. spring boarding off of that though on your point about who it might have been, garrett to you, we know general flynn was retired three star general,