conclusion. and we re just learning now that the justice department is now off the hook in providing the transcripts of conversations that michael flynn, the former national security adviser to the president, had with russian officials including with then russian ambassador to the united states sergey kislyak. that s right. remember, these are the conversations that michael flynn then the national security adviser, ultimately got fired for having with the former russian ambassador. he lied to the vice president about them. he lied all over the white house essentially about them and then got canned. and a judge said that he wanted to see the transcripts of these conversations that michael flynn was having with the former russian ambassador sergey kisly kislyak. the justice department in their latest filings essentially just didn t turn them over. now the judge is saying he s fine with that. he doesn t need to see the transcripts. that s all we ve seen publicly. it seems like there s
money when things get tough, that s the treasury side of things. they get out of stocks. that s what you re seeing play out right now. cnbc s dominic chu. thank you very much, sir. appreciate it. got it. that wraps up the hour for me. look for me on social media and catch kasie d.c. sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. thank you for watching. deadline white house with nicolle wallace starts right now. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in the new york. three, two, one. cue a presidential meltdown. the likes of which we haven t seen since yesterday morning. that s because any minute now, robert mueller will file a critical new report on the year-long cooperation agreement between michael flynn, the president s former national security adviser, and the feds he s been working for since pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with russian ambassador sergey kisly kislyak. that imminent report could explain why president trump has
a follow-up for some of the conversations he had had previously. remember, they were having a number of conversations. it wasn t just this conversation he had with sergey kislyak about lifting about sanctions and whether russia would retaliate. he also had a conversation with sergey kislyak about whether russia would veto or vote against a resolution related to israel in the u.n. so they were having these back-channel conversations all through the transition with the russian ambassador and i think it s important to state, you know, we talk about what the crimes might be here and whether this relates to a quid pro quo that, you know, the russians would interfere in the election and trump would reward them with the sanctions or the russians would, you know, approve a development deal in russia, trump would reward them with lifting sanctions. we talk about what the criminal acts might be but there s also that s kind of a very low standard to which to hold the president of the united s
it came to russia, mike flynn would have been in on it. one would presume so. in fact, mike flynn was a guy who was essentially fired by the obama administration and started to talk around town that the reason he was fired is because he was talking too starkly about radical islam which wasn t true but he sort of became radicalized in the trump campaign and rose up the ranks and absolutely, he would a guy and by the way, barack obama warned donald trump on at least one occasion not to hire so did chris christie. absolutely. he was the guy that trump outsourced many of his foreign policy, foreign contacts to, during the campaign. so if there was a russia conspiracy, one can presume that flynn was aware of it. matt miller, mike flynn was reportedly on the phone with the russians on the day of the inauguration. you and i both worked in incoming administrations, and there wasn t anything other than press calls that i dealt with on the day of the inauguration that was so urgent.
something about why michael l flynn lied about conversations with russian ambassador sergey kislyak ostensibly about the lifting of sanctions? we very well might. i think what we ll see from this agreement is obviously we ll see kind of a description of the significance of this cooperation. the extent of its cooperation. we ll see some description of the crimes. i think the question of how much detail we ll see about the involvement of others. whether mueller makes that public in this report or whether he holds it off for a future indictment or a future guilty plea or holds it off because it s still a very live part of his investigation. and i think it s such a critical question because flynn really is at the central of kind of both threads of the mueller investigation. both the collusion side and the obstruction side. on the collusion side as you said, it wasn t just his phone calls to sergey kislyak where day talked about sanctions which of course in the quid pro quo that s what ru