fact that he has now drawn this contrast of flynn who cooperated fully, truthfully and completely and is doing that and is getting a full-on recommendation of no jail time, really almost guarantees he will get no jail time. in contrast to, you know, papadopoulos, manafort, even cohen who has not yet been sentenced and even once he s sentenced, sounds like he will agree to continue cooperating. so this is a signal to him, you better stay on that road because even once you re sentenced, you can be found in violation of your terms of your agreement if you don t keep cooperating, if you re supposed to, and i can be sentenced to additional time. and the other point is, remember, giuliani and trump and everybody, there was for a while even this theory out there that, you know, flynn hadn t really lied. this was all a big trap. i mean, look at this, right? you don t have this kind of sentencing letter from the government, this kind of report
sentenced and even once he s sentenced, sounds like he will agree to continue cooperating. so this is a signal to him, you better stay on that road because even once you re sentenced, you can be found in violation of your terms of your agreement if you don t keep cooperating, if you re supposed to, and i can be sentenced to additional time. and the other point is, remember, giuliani and trump and everybody, there was for a while even this theory out there that, you know, flynn hadn t really lied. this was all a big trap. i mean, look at this, right? you don t have this kind of sentencing letter from the government, this kind of report back for a big trap that giuliani and trump keep trying to talk about. flynn came clean here. he admitted that he lied because he got caught. and i think he cooperated so quickly in part because he probably got caught really red-handed in a way that he could not deny. so, you know, once again, i think it s important to point out when mueller speaks and pu
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. he was the right hand man to manafort. what he ll have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government to file that sentencing letter to his judge to say give him a below guideline sentence is provi provide information for the prosecution. there are no leaks coming out of special counsel ice offic s off. we don t know what gates will say and it could blow this thing wild open. here is what he had to say. when you re a prosecutor, we used to say all the time, if you re going to try to kill the king, make sure he s dead. the fact is, this case is going to be very important to establish credibility for bob mueller. if he were to lose this case, it