was being investigated by the united states attorney s office, and an exchange for giving her leniency, he cooperated against the governor. so the same playbook could be used here where the president may like michael flynn, but will he pardon michael flynn s son? how much is mr. flynn willing to gamble that the son is going to get a pardon? here what could happen is mr. flynn could do what s called vicarious cooperation, where he would cooperate on the son s behalf for leniency for his son. and that s really what i suspect is going on. i suspect this leak is from the defense team. and they have to decide now, do they want to get lesser charges that are brought or do they want to have to basically try to fight this as long as they can in the hope of getting a pardon down the road. nick. yeah, i think this is all consistent with mueller s overall strategy. as shown by the the manafort indictment was the campaign manager, right up at