lesser sentence, but it plays a stunning role about what the president's own lawyer was doing. >> i think it's worth reading it. i think it's worth reading because it's unredacted. >> i defer. >> the verbatim from this voicemail so that everybody knows what the president's lawyer was telling michael flynn. here it is. 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. um, just for the sake of protecting all our interests if we can. remember what we've always said about the president and his feelings towards flynn, and that still remains. i mean, listen, i can't hear the inflection, but the words and the ums and the suggestions here, it just sounds like a strange voicemail to leave. >> and remember john dowd was the president's lawyer who was caught talking to another one of the president's legal team