hurts him with these special counselors, this attitude of no consequences? as a lawyer, i always tell a client basically keep your mouth shut. don t throw red flags out there. don t instigate any kind of interest that a prosecutor may have. certainly don t make comments that suggest that maybe you re not taking this serious. so, mueller will look at every aspect of the campaign. he s going to look at everybody who had a significant role in the campaign. these are very aggressive, experienced prosecutors. so they re not going to leave any rock unturned. what about mike flynn, certainly signaling that he may be trying to cut a deal with mueller? ending this information-sharing agreement with the president s legal team. how high up the chain would he have to go to get mueller s attention with information he may be able to swap? he has mueller s attention right now. most significant development in the investigation so far. not really steam stem iing from
criminal liability, the way to get yourself off the hook and potentially his son who s involved is to cooperate with the prosecution. so what s going on? here we live in washington. how s the president s team responding to flints put in the wall up? this is what they have been expecting. microphones attorney have had an information sharing agreement with the legal team and that s fairly normal to do these large criminal investigations. one side decides to cooperate that communication stops. this week general sense attorney made it known they cannot share information about the investigation. a member of the trump legal team said the prospective floor and entering a plea is not unexpected. no should draw a conclusion this means anything about him cooperating against the president. they believe any charges will be related to his lobbying work on behalf of turkey.
againly a defence lawyer will not bring his client in for a meeting like this without having first assured himself that his client is in a position to offer something and get a deal. otherwise, you re subjecting your client to questioning by the government, with very little protection. duke law professor speaking to me earlier about the possibility that michael flynn may be seeking to cut a deal with robert mueller. flynn s lawyers ended an information sharing agreement with the president s legal team. lawyers for flynn, mueller and trump are not commenting on these allegations. jill, welcome to you on this saturday. what would someone like flynn have to bring to the table in order to get mueller s attention, and do you think the president should be panicking? the president should be panicking? i m assuming that flynn knows a
cooperating in special counsel robert mueller s investigation. let s bring in our political and legal specialists. susan hennessy, i ll go to you first. what does this mean, do you think? it s not uncommon in these investigations for the various defendants to have a joint defense agreement, a joint information sharing agreement. they don t have much information about what the government is up to so they re trying to put the pieces together. you can t ethically continue in those agreements if you re sort of an inside man for the government. once you re actually correspondent cooperating with the government, you have to notify the other parrots you re not going to be information sharing. that s one reason say people say, okay, he made this notifications. we ve seen lots and lots of leaks coming out of this. those probably aren t coming from mueller s team. a lot have been damaging and embarrassing to general flynn and his son. flynn s attorneys may have decided it s not worth it to us
information-sharing agreement, intelligence cooperation agreement with france just a few days ago, but this really has to increase. in the eu in particular, tracking individuals on airplanes or passenger records is something that they are in debate within amongst themselves, in brussels and within the eu, about balancing the security threats against privacy concerns. and it s something that they really need to tackle. but within the global coalition, we ve built this coalition of 65 countries all around the world, because these people are coming from countries all around the world, from europe to asia to africa, and we have to coordinate on a global basis to just not only crack down networks capital by capital, but to share information and collapse the networks across borders. that s something that we re going to be very focused on over the coming months. when you say, though, for example, as you just did, that we re making some inroads, do you understand the concern of people who he