cooperation with him is complete. the lawyers for flynn stress the one-time trump national security adviser continues to cooperate in other federal cases. everyone s still here because i need them desperately. frank, what do you make? just try to connect these dots for me. mueller s almost done, it s our understanding or ready to do some sort of handoff to maybe the other u.s. attorney s offices, gates hasn t been sentenced. we know gates is described by chris christie as a tour guide to all of the wrongdoing on the campaign and was around and very much in the loop and in the room while trump was president. flynn hasn t yet been sentenced. stone hasn t been tried yet. what is going on? so a couple of things, one, we might found any day if gates is ready to be sentenced, his cooperation is done. we already know flynn is ready to be sentenced or in the next 90 days and mueller said his cooperation is otherwise done. so that s all indicating that
these folks lie. but i imagine we will hear more about this if it wraps up in the next weeks. the question has been why mule ir s team hasn t disclosed this kind of thing before. why we only learned about the alleged lies involving konstantin kilimnik after a failed redaction from manafort s legal team. there s a school of thought robert mueller has hidden these details from the public because he doesn t want to tip anybody off about the case as far as collusion. i m not sure if i find that compelling but certainly the fact mueller s team and andrew weissmann in court a few weeks ago said those matters did go to the heart of special counsel s probe, i think it leads to the conclusion that collusion is not something that is off the table, even if it s not a proven case yet. even if they re not necessarily going to move forward with anything. paul manafort s legal jeopardy is certainly continuing in new
district. he s been in front of two judges. they re going to consolidate it down to one sentencing judge. the office is going to put a sentencing memo in, and i think he s given a lot of time. the unofficial reports are something like 70 hours. that s a lot of time also, like flynn s 19 meetings. goodness. jefrry toobin made the point, john, earlier that cooperators are usually sentenced after the trial in which they testify. and he says one way to view this is that flynn hasn t testified because the person he can testify against is someone who can t be tried. that would be the president. what do you think? well, it s mainly a matter of policy that the president can t be tried. so they re treating this as a political trial or a potential impeachment. in actuality, a president can be indicted as sitting. this is just a policy decision
they re going to consolidate it down to one sentencing judge. the office is going to put a sentencing memo in, and i think he s given a lot of time. the unofficial reports are something like 70 hours. that s a lot of time also, like flynn s 19 meetings. goodness. jeffrey toobin made the point, john, earlier that cooperators are usually sentenced after the trial in which they testify. and he says one way to view this is that flynn hasn t testified because the person he can testify against is someone who can t be tried. that would be the president. what do you think? well, it s mainly a matter of policy that the president can t be tried. so they re treating this as a political trial or a potential
president had earlier tweeted. let me ask you about this copy and paste. in the wall street journal. claims a former republican operative peter smith was trying to find e-mails that may have been stolen from hillary clinton s server software. suggesting it was connected somehow to the fired national security adviser michael flynn. flynn hasn t responded to the wmp wall street journal story. smith has passed away since that interview with the wall street journal. is this something your committee is looking into now? it certainly must be a part of our investigation, wolf, for a couple of reasons. one, everyone remembers president trump as a candidate inviting russia to sbhook hilla clinton s e-mails and we all know now that michael flynn did have a relationship with the russians traveling there, paid by r.t., connected to their intelligence services and then served and played a role in the campaign.