vessels carrying missiles but kr cnn has not reviewed the intel. possible obstruction online one, the president s former national security adviser, michael flynn said people connected to the president or congress contacted him to discuss his involvement in the russia investigation in a way that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. this is according to a previously redacted legal filing by the mueller team just made public and new overnight, a federal judge is considering releasing a voice mail recording of at least one of these conversations. it does beg the question among many questions who in congress was trying to influence flynn s testimony. let s begin our coverage with cnn s joe johns live at the white house which could be a very dangerous misunderstanding with iran, joe.
warned white house counsel don mcgahn that flynn may have been compromised by the russians. i had two in-person meetings and one phone call with the white house counsel about mr. flynn. reporter: newly unsealed court documents offer more details about flynn s cooperation with the special counsel, robert mueller s probe. showing that flynn was one of a select few people in the trump campaign who were involved in discussions about whether or not to contact wikileaks regarding stolen democratic party e-mails. flynn also provided mueller with multiple examples of people potentially attempting to influence his cooperation. a partially redacted court memo reads, quote, either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. the defendant even provided a voice mail recording of one such communication. the mueller report published that voi
by the attorney general without a court ordered, democrats took turns reading the 450 page mueller report out loud emphasizing what a public. redacted, rejected, rejected, redacted. the special counsel records were unsealed from providing new insights into cooperation by national security adviser mike flynn and the records confirm he received communication before and after his guilty plea that might have affected his willingness to cooperate. it reads in part the defendant from the government of multiple instances before and after his guilty plea were either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress that could have affected his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation is. it continues the defendant provided a voicemail recording of one such communication.
and there are new details about a voicemail recording from trump s attorney to flynn s lawyer while flynn was cooperating, was it an attempt to obstruct justice? i want to talk about this and more new developments with laura coates, david axelrod and kirsten powers. i told you they d be here and here they are. good evening to all of you. laura, get right to it, a little bit of this information was in the mueller report but we re learning more now. when you hear about this voicemail recording that s provided by flynn to the special counsel and a transcript has now been ordered released to the public by the end of this month, what questions does that raise for you? well, one of the questions it raises is why has congress not been able to have access to the underlying evidence and documents and transcripts outside of the actual mueller report? this is additional fodder to support the argument that because there is underlying information, because there are things that may have been touch
counsel s office investigation into potential efforts to interfere with or otherwise obstruct its investigation, the defendant informed the government of multiple instances both before and after his guilty plea where he either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress that is could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. the defendant even provided a voice mail recording of one, such communication income some of those instances, the special counsel s office was unaware of the outreach until being alerted to it by the defendant. that new little unredacted material links up with page 128, 121 of volume 2 of the mueller report which includes what appears to be a partial transcript of a voice mail that one of michael flynn s lawyers received after michael flynn began cooperating with the prosecutors. in late november, 2017, flynn