it says the defendant s false statements to the fbi about his contacts with a russian government emissary, the requests he conveyed to the russian government through that will emissary and russia sance to that question were material into the nature of any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the trump campaign. one of the questions has always been was there a quid pro goal between the trump team and russia. whatever mueller has learned from flynn, does it get to the heart of that, do you think? i think it does. that was the interview he was talking about. based on our reporting some of the main questions that came out of that issue wasn t the logan act. no one inside the fbi or the department of justice was seriously going to prosecute michael flynn for the logan ac.
and tell the truth and i will ask for zero of your time in jail. right? i will not lock you up. that is a message because they clearly are gath heing more information. let s not forget, the other is russia. russia is an audience for this. this was an intelligence effort by russian to essentially turn michael flynn. he s an intelligence agent to give them information or benefit. their sources their campaign are now exposed. and i think that s good. i think that s good for mueller to say we will nope what you did and we will find out what you did because maybe when our government starts to be responsible again, we will wreak havoc on you as you have wreaked havoc on us to russia. i want to read more of the memo. it says the defendant s false statements to the fbi about his contacts with a russian government emissary, the requests he conveyed to the russian government through that will emissary and russia sance