mueller s team were in agreement he did not deserve prison due to his extensive cooperation with the russia investigation. but the judge strongly suggested that he was prepared to send flynn to prison based on the seriousness of his offenses, which in addition to lying to the fbi also included seeing retially acting as a paid foreign agent while he was advising mr. trump. said the judge, arguably, you sold your country out. that s exactly how the judge put it to mr. flynn. now, he offered flynn a chance to delay the sentencing and perhaps continuing operating with investigators, and guess what, flynn took that deal and quickly. all of that happened as the president threw his support behind flynn sort of in a head-scratching way. despite publicly saying just a year ago he had to fire flynn because of the fbi, but after flynn gave the president some perceived ammo to go after the fbi, the president seemed to soften flynn s crimes and that s not something we ve gotten a full answer to.