regulations. he s done what he s supposed to do. what i m hopeful is he ll continue to do that and release the entire report. so that there is total transparency here. i mean, there may be some redactions because of national security reasons, because of classified information. but beyond that, even if it has to do with grand jury material i would hope they immediately go into the federal district court judge and get approval to release that. you see it differently? yeah, look, i think that what barr is going to do, he s going to push out the stuff that s most hopeful to his boss at first and if there s bad stuff we might see that in a couple of weeks or months. this top line thing that everybody is waiting for today it s going to tell us stuff we already know. who s been prosecuted, we know that. who hasn t been prosecuted, mueller has chosen not to indict donald trump or his family or anybody else in the administration directly on the central charge of conspiracy.
charge that michael flynn lied, right? that is the essence of this case and that he lied to fbi officers about meeting with foreign officials. we do not know if that changes, if this has anything to do with that central charge, that s why he is in hot water. bret: had he known, michael flynn, that is, that the guy that was investigating him and asking him the questions was conspiring and had this political bias and the judge that he said i plead guilty to have the relationship with the guy who asked him the questions, would he have pled guilty? good question, i don t know. i think that that is a question per michael flynn and his attorney. bret: we are waiting any minute on a decision and whether they will be fired hours before he is scheduled to retire to get his pension. thoughts on that as we get a decision one way or another before sunday? it should not be taking down
the fisa court. perhaps will interfere with allies giving us intelligence for fear it goes through this process, and a president who is hell bent on releasing something because it appears to be pishl to his political interests. undermining an agency currently investigating his administration. that s right. lawyera if i could go with you. there are a couple issue with the memo one is the release being unusual. but as the central charge from the fbi, which is involved in the memo, involved in this process, saying that it is just fundamentally misleading. it s fundamentally inaccurate here. that s a huge problem. i mean if the goal here is for the american public in the court of public opinion which is the goal here to get in message pout and allow the people to decide for themselves about what they ve read, then wouldn t you want them to have every single piece of the pudsle in front of them? wouldn t you want, even if there are competing interpretations let alone the actual subs
michael flynn lied to the fbi when he was asked about that in his conversations with the russians about that. again, this all has to do with russia. a lot of people have been criticizing about whether or not any of this has to do with russia anymore. it s clear robert mueller s investigators have been working on the central charge that they have, which is everything having to do with the trump campaign and ties to russia and that s what this one count criminal information we expect that there s going to be a plea agreement that will be announced in court at this hour at this moment with the federal judge and what this signals is that michael flynn is going to be expected to provide all the information that he has. we don t know the full extent of his cooperation but at a minimum vessel to tell them what he he will have to tell them what he knows as part of the agreement of the government. the prosecutors are describing to the court what the full extent of that cooperation is, john.
paul manafort and michael flynn. both of those people are under scrutiny for various financial dealings. again, all of it ties back to the central question, and i think as laura pointed out, it doesn t ever really go away from the central charge that bob mueller is tasked with which is trying to get to the bottom of what russian influence played a role in. paul manafort had history of accepting moneys from entities that may have been connected with russia. what s also significant is he was incred fwli close with trump at a pivotal point in the campaign. but, and this may be crucial, he was kicked to the curb and there was a conscious effort to separate. the fact that trump has been reluctant, bending over backwards to support flynn even after he was fired for lying to vice president pence and has been incredibly reluctant to criticize vladimir putin in almost any context which is