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andrew mccabe, as he details in his new book, worked with robert mueller, knows robert mueller very well in robert mueller s previous job as director of the fbi. and this is what andrew mccabe said today, what he told ari melber about what he expects in the mueller report. i expect that director mueller s team will produce an all-encompassing report that details exactly what they found and exactly what they think about it. i think it s unbelievably important that that information is shared with congress. and i d also like to see it shared to the greatest extent possible with the american people. and congressman jeffries, that s someone who has worked closely with robert mueller, knows his work methodology. it s incredibly important because we know a few things. all of the president s men are going down in flames, from manafort to gates to papadopoulos to cohen to flynn and now roger stone. it s often said where there s
melber about what he expects in the mueller report. i expect that director mueller s team will produce an all-encompassing report that details exactly what they found and exactly what they think about it. i think it s unbelievably important that that information is shared with congress. and i d also like to see it shared to the greatest extent possible with the american people. and congressman jeffries, that s someone who has worked closely with robert mueller, knows his work methodology. it s incredibly important because we know a few things. all of the president s men are going down in flames, from manafort to gates to papadopoulos to cohen to flynn and now roger stone. it s often said where there s smoke there s fire. there s a whole lot of smoke emanating from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we need some clarity. the mueller report can provide that. there appears to be a triangular relationship between the trump campaign, wikileaks, and russian spies. roger stone may be the link be
publicly exonerated. you may want to if you feel you re innocent, you may want to have that reflected in a report. so i want to deep dive into one specific question at the beginning of this whole thing that has to do with the mike flynn guilty plea and what he lied about. this jumped out at us in the mccabe book. he describes his conversation with michael flynn about the meeting and he says when i told him people were curious about his conversations with kslyak. to flynn s point i have no comment, but i have to wonder as events played out if you thought we were listening why would you lie. it is interesting there was a tweet that was deleted from mike philip flynn s son saying he didn t do anything wrong. then you say wait what if mike
you know we love doing this. we love any item that begins with, on this day. on this day two years ago, michael flynn, president trump s first security adviser, was interviewed by the fbi. that precipitated what you might call a series of unfortunate events eventually leading to the creation of the mueller investigation. so let s take a moment to look at the anatomy of an investigation. here s what we know about why the fbi wanted to interview mike flynn in the first place. he came to our attention in the early part of january when there were statements made by the vice president in public about interactions that flynn, as the national security adviser, had with the russians. the fbi, he conducted the interview on the 24th. we got a readout on the 25th. we placed a call to flynn and said we re sending a couple guys over. hope you ll talk to them.