thing we know mueller has been looked at that relate to do this very complicated meeting between the uae and george nader. mike flynn sat in a meeting with jared kushner and the prince that s been under scrutiny. it could be something very different. the president and the white house administration doesn t know, either. that must be terrifying to them. cynthia, at once they re telling us how much the tonnage of his cooperation, which was a lot. and at the same time they re saying, by filing this, we re done, thank you very much. well, i m not convinced they re saying that. they may still call on him. but let s talk about the tonnage of his cooperation. he met with him 19 times. it s a lot. it s a lot. just let me give you some context. i tried 50 cases. i never met with one witness 19 times in my whole life. glen has probably tried 200, 500 cases, i don t know. i bet you never met with the
notes of their conversation. comey was asked about that in a senate here in june 2017. you wrote down the words. there s 28 words and it says, in quotes, i hope dai this is th president speaking i hope you can see your way clear to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. those are his exact words, is that correct? correct. let s bring in our lead-off panel on this tuesday night. cynth cynthia oxlee is with us. glen kirschner is with us, who also worked with robert mueller. cynthia, what did you learn from this document and what stands out? well, i wish i learned more. there is a lot of blacking out. there s no more ink in my printer and i m a little bitter
who might be looking to reign him in or tamp him down. he is content to do things on his own timetable, in his own way, and he didn t feel the need to put a whole bunch of information into the public square in this memo, so i think both of those inferences are fairly drawn from these documents. matt, my first question for you is procedural. i just heard myself again using that word backchannel to russia. that s inaccurate. what they were trying to set up, i believe, was a workaround. backchannel we have. it s the red phone. it was put in at the height of bad relations to keep things from boiling over. this was not that. and this was not a thing. this would have been something extraordinary that kushner was talking about. that s point one. point two, in your view, why should, to cynthia s point, the trump administration be so worried about this guy, general? i think on point one, the best way to think about what they were doing, they were trying to establish a secret
mike flynn is cooperating with respect to the russia investigation. if you read the filing, it s clear he s cooperating with at least two. it s hard to tell because the redactions are more likely readings that he s cooperating with three investigations. it s clear he s cooperating with other offices outside the counsel s offices. those could relate to this other thing we know mueller has been looked at that relate to do this very complicated meeting between the uae and george nader. mike flynn sat in a meeting with jared kushner and the prince that s been under scrutiny. it could be something very different. the president and the white house administration doesn t know, either. that must be terrifying to them. cynthia, at once they re telling us how much the tonnage of his cooperation, which was a lot. and at the same time they re
it was put in at the height of bad relations to keep things from boiling over. this was not that. and this was not a thing. this would have been something extraordinary that kushner was talking about. that s point one. point two, in your view, why should, to cynthia s point, the trump administration be so worried about this guy, general? i think on point one, the best way to think about what they were doing, they were trying to establish a secret channel with russia that no one in the u.s. government could overhear. they were trying to do it using, remember, russian equipment. i think they thought they could come over and use russian equipment to try to communicate with people in the kremlin. i don t know what they had that they were so worried about the sitting government at the time. that is the important point. second, with respect to what was the second question? why is he so dangerous to the trump administration? yeah, i think the thing i found more interesting in this fil