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That the judge was really upset about this notion that there was contrition on the part of michael flynn, that he felt badly that he recognized he did something wrong if, in his sentencing memo from his attorneys, they were also asserting there was something wrong with how the fbi questioned him, and of course something that the white house that is grasped onto to make political arguments, not actually legal argument, but political arguments about the larger mueller investigation. another issue that i think the judge has clearly allowed time for is giving michael flynn more time to cooperate. michael flynn has already met with the team 19 times. what else does he have to offer? one interesting thing there will be to see if there s a trial on the two indictments that have been handed down. will he testify? ....
To me is that this is a marker. this is a place holder before labor day, before we get into election season. so they don t disrupt anything and can t be accused of disrupting anything related to the election. have him plead guilty to what we know he s under investigation for, and then they ll sort of begin the cooperation process, which requires many, many meetings between cohen and the prosecutor s and investigators. chuck, it comes down to you. in the moment as it was happening today, i heard several good legal minds. open the door and toss out the phrase unindicted coconspirator it had me flashing back to 1974 and 75. is it a term of art in the law? can it be applied to one donald trump after a day like today? it is a term of art and the law, brian. i think it can be applied to the president of the united states ....
Pressure on him. i wonder how much rosenstein wanted to try to maximize the impact by thinking these two together as much as he could with the manafort trial copping to an end and turning out to have a guilty verdict. you do have a kind of it s a serious investigation. i very much agree. this is the justice department being curious about discovering the break. just to continue our conversation on the other side, both gentlemen will stay with us. ....
Trajectory of this presidency that you and i talk about for a living. where are we headed now? it s shattered. the narrative that the investigation of this president is a witch hunt. i mean, the witches all had, you know, keys to the kingdom and these were all people that were doing donald trump s bidding. so the idea that he can spear the investigation that will follow to the southern district of new york which had nothing to do with what the target that donald trump attacked on a daily basis, i think it s a bridge too far. i think this might be the day. if we look back and they re whipping the votes in the senate to see if the impeachment vote in the house, if they have enough votes to convict him. they ll look back on this day as one of the days that began to erode that lock they have on the republican base. republicans have been pathetic. they ve been pathetic during the campaign and during the presidency. ....
Day, this was a consequential today. tonight it seems to be closing in around president trump. he s now been implicated in a crime by his long time personal lawyer. reminder today, in the russia investigation itself, the special counsel has now five guilty pleas, including cohen just today. 32 indicted individuals and filed more than 150 criminal charges. that number is going to grow. just today the manafort jury returned the first eight guilty verdicts. that investigation shows no sign of slowing down. a response to all today s dramatic developments. bill kristol asks the question on social media. if flynn is guilty and manafort is guilty and cohen is guilty, maybe trump is guilty? we are pleased to have with us tonight two of our favorites. eugene robinson and bill ....