what i do find remarkable was in the manafort proceedings the fact that he lied about being in contact with senior administration officials in 2018. shannon: we have part of that from what happened today, basically talking about the fact that manafort is accused of lying about having multiple contacts with people in the administration who shouldn t be talking to him, the document is a shot to others, not to lie or tell partial truth including the president who submitted his written statement similar s team. you shouldn t lie, you won t get in trouble, pretty clear on that point but on that issue, why was any administration official talking to manafort when he was indicted for a felony or pled guilty to a felony. that is pretty remarkable and if i was the president, i wasn t happy about any part of this i would be focused on my eye are
the defendant providing false information to government as well as the rules governing work performance on behalf of the foreign government. basically saying someone who works for government, we expect all of our government officials, democrats or republicans, whether their email servers are in bathrooms or closets, or whether they lied to the fbi, we demand and should expect that our government officials serve at the highest level and they shouldn t lie to fbi agents. shannon: but if you re talking about email service being held in bathrooms i assuming you are talking about hillary clinton. yes, i am saying it s wrong. to the point i m making is we should demand that all of our government officials including michael flynn should be held to the highest standards. and lying to the fbi is not shannon: i agree, but she didn t get prosecuted. here s the problem, a single standard does not apply to everyone. first of all, we have in this investigation, what has got less beef than
defendants providing false information to the government as well as governing work performance, something that works for government, democrats or republicans, or ambassadors in the process, they lied to the fbi, we should expect government officials serve at the highest level and above board and shouldn t lie to fbi agents. shannon: you are talking email servers being held in bathrooms your referring to hillary clinton. i m saying she was wrong. we should demand all our governments including michael flynn be held it should apply to everyone but she didn t get prosecuted. it does not apply to everyone. what we have in this investigation, determining what has less beef than a nothing burger? nothing. there is nothing.
sean: here with the reaction to all of today s breaking news the host of the number one show on sunday night 10:00 eastern, life, liberty, levin on the news channel. we call him the great one for a reason. mark levin. there are some lessons here. i agree you shouldn t lie to the f.b.i. everyone agrees with that. i also agree you should pay your taxes. i also agree that you better not lie on a bank loan application. mark, how did we get from russia and that this is it after nearly, we are almost at 500 days. all right. i want to address michael cohen. how did we get to that? i want to help the law professors, the constitutional experts, the criminal defense lawyers, the former prosecutors and the professors and i want to help them understand what the law is. the general counsel for the clinton mob family lanny davis
congress, saying, no, you shouldn t lie. this is not good. we need to stand up for certain standards. i went to our gop strategist, now to you on this. why haven t we seen anybody in leadership there do something about this? well, i think that it s politically convenient, and we live now in a political culture where it someone s behavior doesn t suit your political agenda, you re willing to look the other way. and that s a sad evolution of our democracy and our sense of ethics. we all have a responsibility on both sides to be critical of behaviors that are not consistent with the values of our country, and donald has unfortunately become the poster child for the lack of truthfulness, the lack of disclosure, the lack of transparency. people in his administration are only following in line with what their leading is giving them, which i saw the same thing when i worked in the trump organization. randall misses one important point is that if you re a republican and you try to st