you can imagine full are you someone involved in these discussions with michael flynn, if you re aware of these discussions that michael flynn was having with the russian ambassador and you see he strikes this can very public plea deal for mueller and nothing else, you know they re getting information from flynn. he also handed over seeksly a paper trail of corroborating are evidence and that did seem to make other people who they said were firsthand witnesses more likely to participate in the probe. let s bringing in josh campbell, juliette kayyem and harel ril lit man. harry, this memo lists at least three ongoing investigations where flynn is providing assistance one criminal investigation completely redacted in the document. another completely redacted. the special counsel s office also says is he cooperated into the investigation with links between the russian government and members of the trump campaign. talk to me about the significance of all that.
only when it comes to the special council s investigation but it refers to a criminal investigation and everything afterwards is redacted. it said that flynn cooperated with other justice department offices. that tells you that he wasn t just involved necessarily in the special counsel s probe that he was probably helping out on other investigations that are no longer under the special counsel s purview. these are redacted because they don t want to give the targets a heads-up something is coming on don t want the public to know what they re still working on and there are more shoes to drop. sara mueller is also saying flynn s early conversation helped him get others to cooperate. it s very significant. put it look in the filings they play up the fact that flynn was a firsthand witness, there very early with donald trump throughout the campaign and throughout the transition. they say the fact that he came in and began cooperating early kind of sent the signal to other people they s
interviews with robert mueller s team. what he told them, giving prosecutors a road map for the russia investigation. josh campbell, harry litman and juliette kayyem rel back with me. this is what the president s lawyer rudy giuliani told nbc news tonight. he said there s a yiddish word that fits. he said. they don t have bupkes. he downplayed any concern what flynn may have said. fell had information to share with mueller, that hurt the president, you would know it by now. okay? and fox news says rudy gul likens the offense in the flynn guilty plea to spitting on the sidewalking with major repercussions for many. what does that even mean? happy hanukkah. i didn t believe that he actually said it. i think giuliani knows bubs.