himself. but yet even though with those opportunities he still continued to lie to the fbi agents who were interviewing him at the white house. and here is some of what they asked, jim. one of the agents, as we may recall now, was peter strzk. he asked flynn if he had recalled any conversation that he had with the former russian ambassador sergei kislyak about the expulsion of russians by the obama administration following the 2016 election. and the fbi agent specifically asked them if he told the russian ambassador not to engage in any tit for tat. that is, don t throw out any americans out of russia in response to what the obama administration has done. what flynn says is that first he
i ll see you later. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. here s the breaking news. clear evidence tonight that michael flynn lied to the fbi. fugazi. despite the president s claims his former national security adviser was truthful. clear evidence he lied. the evidence comes from a ten-page document. that document released tonight by robert mueller. there are redactions on every single page. but what is not redacted, it tells us that flynn lied again and again and again to fbi agents. just lied. what did i say? lies, lies and more lies. here s what s really interesting about all of this. according to robert mueller, flynn has now told him the truth. so what can we learn from what flynn said then and what he says now? much more ahead on this breaking news. we ll tell you about that. and it comes on the day that james comey, the man president
and we re coming to you live right outside the federal courthouse in washington, d.c., as we await more details on the sentencing of the president s former national security adviser michael flynn. michael flynn has just spoken in court, we re learning. i want to bring in shimon prokupecz to learn what has happened. the judge in the case spoke, emmett sullivan, saying he was concerned that michael flynn was not warned about the repercussions of lying to the fbi and he didn t have counsel present. the thing here that s important is that the judge is basically telling michael flynn, do you want to withdraw your guilty plea? are you now saying you aren t guilty of this? so they re going through this entire exercise now of questioning him about whether or not he really is guilty. and because he s the judge clearly is taking an issue with what flynn s lawyers have been arguing, that he was somehow tricked into lying, so the judge plainly asked flynn s lawyer, was your client entrapped, d
you are guilty? that s number one. number two, the judge is not going to ignore the reality that we have a president of the united states who is acting like a mob boss and been continually attacking bob mueller and calling people rats and acting like a mav yoeso. the judge doesn t like that. when he talks about the seriousness of what flynn did and selling your country out, i think he is making a decision not to ignore the larger political reality and saying this is serious. so the idea that his comments have not been affected by the president of the united states and his campaign of vilification, i think it s proper to take that into
lobbying efforts on behalf of the turkish government, pled to one count and special prosecution went to back like he was his own lawyer. he sees where the judge is coming from. what does he do? what the prosecutors want to hear or what was said a couple days ago. dana: adam, you cover this story everyday, where do you see this going in the next few day? we have 90 days now until the sentencing will happen. but what would you cover tomorrow? there is a what will we cover tomorrow? dana: just curious where you think the story is going. the flynn story, ultimately, i think we d like to know more about what flynn provided to mueller s team. right? we re aware, it was obvious he was cooperating on the secret turkish lobbying scheme. but what else did he give the special counsel in the 19 interviews, that is what we really want to know.