again, for the first time. this has never been unsealed before. we get flynn helping with the bjon keon prosecution which is ongoing. we get flynn lying about talking to the transition team for the russian government and the enthusiasm about russian efforts to help them during the campaign and the trump campaign s to reach out in response to what russia was doing for them. but then, remember, the other big volume of mueller s report the whole second of mueller s report was about obstruction of justice. and now we know that flynn was helpful there, too. quote, defendant flynn also assisted the special counsel s investigation into potential efforts to interfere with or otherwise obstruct its investigation. defendant flynn informed the government of multiple instances both before and after his guilty plea where either he or his attorney received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress. or congress? that could have affected both his willingness to cooperat
it seems they didn t look at those matters. is that how you read it? that s how i read it and what the former fbi general counsel said to you recently. he said mueller was just seeing himself as a prosecutor and was embedded in this larger counter intelligence investigation that was looking at these other questions, where the public might think if there s other questions there s not criminal conspiracy but collusion, or were people acting as witty or unwitting assets of the kremlin? that s what s missing and it s missing from the public, it s missing from congress. they didn t have access to it either. it s kind of astonishing that we don t have that kind of information and we re talking about the person in the white house. so the reason that i raise these questions to you and wanted to talk about this in the context of mueller s potential testimony. if mueller and his team were eventually allowed to testify, and i still don t understand what the holdup is. if they re allowed to co
they briefed it to the gang of eight, then recently in the last week the former fbi general counsel who was also on you show, add also confirmed that s exactly what they did. so what happened to it? adam schiff, who is the chair of the house intelligence committee, just gave an interview to the washington post in the last few days and he actually says as the chair of the committee i don t know what happened to the investigation. i don t know what happened to the investigation into the trump circle, and i don t know what happened to the investigation with respect to president trump himself. and when you read the mueller report i mean obviously you and your colleagues putting together this list of questions people should be asked when you guys publish this today at justice security, obviously this is based on a close reading of the report. i m gleaning from this that when you read the report, as i do, i don t see evidence that mueller s team actually investigated those key counteri
with the white house, which is signal he was about to plead guilty, it was also a very strong signal he was about to start cooperating with prosecutors. right after he pulled out of that joint defense agreement mike flynn got a call. and in the mueller report this is sort of a particularly mafia-esque episode in mueller s report. i mean, this is literally the part where flynn is about to cooperate, right? he pulls out of the joint defense agreement, it s pretty clear he s about to plead guilty. he s about to start cooperating. and he in the dead of night gets the warning from the president s goon squad letting mike flynn know if he s thinking about cooperating, you know what, mike, here s what you might want to keep in mind. i mean, this is from the mueller report. quote, in late november 2017 flynn began to cooperate with this office, meaning mueller s prosecutors. quote, on november 22nd flynn withdrew from the joint defense agreement he had with the president. flynn s counsel told t
cooperation. the defendant even provided a voicemail recording of one such communication. in some of these instances the special counsel was unaware of the outreach until being alerted to it by the defendant. so before and after mike flynn pled guilty people connected to the trump administration and also people connected to congress, who s that? they were reaching out to mike flynn to talk to him about what exactly he planned to tell prosecutors and whether he planned to cooperate with them and how much and on what topics. we know that one of those instances of outreach from persons connected to the trump administration was referenced as the voicemail here, which we think is probably the same reference from mueller s report about a lawyer for the president, quote, the president s personal counsel leaving mike flynn a voicemail. this is amazing. so right after flynn withdrew from his joint defense agreement