he was recommended to him blindly. the weekend before his letter came out, we reported that the president was asking around nervously like what do people think of bill barr. he did not know what to expect. but in addition to the backup he s giving him on the mueller report, he is also supporting his political agenda in other ways. we saw him standing in the oval office next to the president and giving him the legal ground work to overturn to overrule congress s attempt to block him from his emergency declaration and even saying that it was actually necessary for the american people for the safety of the american people. we see him in el salvador this week talking about ms-13 and illegal immigration. it is not only on mueller that he s towing the line. he is backing up the president in all of his political agenda other than mueller as well. michael schmidt, the president s tweet about i wish someone had warned me about flynn, while wrong, does it also foreshadow or belie a nervousne
michael schmidt, the president s tweet about i wish someone had warned me about flynn, while wrong, does it also foreshadow or belie a nervousness about what flynn could say or has already said? well, the president unfortunately didn t provide the larger context to it. but what i have heard talking to the president s aids and his lawyers is the notion that the president is upset that four people in his campaign were under investigation and the fbi never came to him and said, hey, you have got potential russian agents in your midst. and the president basically says, where was that defensive briefing? why didn t i get that? now, the president has struggled to articulate that. but what is going on here is that the fbi was concerned about engaging trump at that point for two reasons. one, they were suspicious of his own connections to russia. they didn t understand why he was saying russia, if you are
his cooperation with the russia investigation. the filing says, quote, the defendant informed the government of multiple instances both before and after his guilty plea where 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 filing says flynn even provided a voice mail reporting, which a federal judge ordered to be released in transcript form by may 31st. the judge also ruled to release a transcript of what flynn said in himself call with the russian ambassador in late 2016 after the obama administration and the judge further orded oral the parts of the special counsel as report be unredacted and reman
still hard to know exactly how ultimately significant it will be. we know that what is in the mueller report, we know what the mueller investigation found about what flynn had to say and what he didn t have to say. flynn of course still has to be sentenced, and so i guess it s still like it s still unclear whether there s going to be a really significant outcome for anything that kind of comes out in court after the mueller testimony i m sorry, after the mueller report. very interesting. listen, renato, mueller did determine that the voice mail could have impacted the investigation, but did not know if trump himself had prompted the call. so where does that leave the president now? well, i think it s interesting, don. one thing that leapt out at me when i looked at this, in the mueller report he said it was due to privilege issues. that s what kept him from knowing whether trump was involved in this. and this is not this is not a
white house that they could no longer talk. and here s what the trump contact said to flynn. okay? this is a quote. he says, it wouldn t surprise me if you ve gone on to make a deal with the government. if there s information that implicates the president, then we ve got a national security issue. so you know, we need some kind of heads-up. just for the sake of protecting all our interests if we can. remember, what we ve always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn, and that still remains. so mark, how significant is that? you know, i don t know yet. there s the fact of the voicemail and there s this discussion is of course significant to sort of shed light on the backstory of what flynn knew and was possibly willing to tell and also how much the president s lawyers were trying to sort of massage the entire situation, massage