information and they re calling him a co-conspirator, not a witness. so when he goes back to the other judge, the other judge, if we take the starting point where we left off, has no reason to not lock him up. so why would flynn do this other than if he thinks that donald trump might come riding to his rescue. right. and we should say there is a bit of pattern here, which is somewhat striking to me. three individuals who struck cooperation deals and then essentially tried to back off them you. had michael flynn who is doing that now. you had george papadopoulos who had a plea under agreement and toyed with the idea of withdrawing his plea, inquired about it and then he had been trapped into talking about it and the whole thing was deep state plot, and then manafort. manafort intentionally lied to the special counsel.
so why would flynn do this other than if he thinks that donald trump might come riding to his rescue. right. and we should say there is a bit of pattern here, which is somewhat striking to me. three individuals who struck cooperation deals and then essentially tried to back off them you. had michael flynn who is doing that now. you had george papadopoulos who had a plea under agreement and toyed with the idea of withdrawing his plea, inquired about it and then he had been trapped into talking about it and the whole thing was deep state plot, and then manafort. manafort intentionally lied to the special counsel. and in the mueller report it says that he stopped them from getting to the truth of the matter. yeah. and so we haven t seen any pardons. we haven t darn we ve seen a few public signs from trump saying that he might consider it. but i don t know. i don t know how to look at this. do you think that donald trump would go out there and pardon
travel to the war zone. a dangerous mix of the naive feeling of security that i had and under estimating a very risky situation. jeanine if in doesn t wanted to tell the story of her former school friend before the birth of her child today she knows that was a mistake and she s glad she was able to leave syria alive with her child after three hundred fifty one days of captivity. the chinese premier has arrived in brussels for a key meeting with e.u. leaders leak a chunk has described china and the european union as important partners or other more cooperation deals are expected to be signed during the summit as the trading relationship between the two continues to grow the e.u. is keen for china to further open up its markets to foreign involvement. will co-chair the twenty first china e.u. leaders meeting alongside gold and claude.
serving serving seven and a half year sentence. nonetheless a lot of questions remain about what happens next. individual aspects are still unresolved. like mike flynn and rick gates cooperation deals. and their status is still unclear. and of course there s the content which remains as of this moment the biggest mystery of all. joining me nbc news national security justice reporter who s been staking out the justice department for days. and a rrbri who s host of the right here on this network. things started to get tense. seemed like something was
ultimately would be the big fish in all of this. remember, this was an investigation into russian interference, relationship with the russians was a key part of this investigation, and that is what paul manafort was partially, they wanted him for that cooperation, because remember, it was he who shared campaign polling data, remember the special counsel s office said that was at the heart of their investigation, that relationship, that manafort had with this russian intelligence official. so that is what i think people need not forget. that is still going on. that is going to keep going on. and if the government, if the fbi could get people to cooperate, in these investigations, they re going to do it. and i think that s ultimately, is where paul manafort s help is what the fbi wanted. they wanted his help in that part of this investigation. quickly, caroline. yes, also, hindsight is 20/20, so it could have been that maybe yes, they were looking for a bigger fish besides the russia