capable of having a strong diplomatic presence. think about it. the u.s. leader, the british leader, the french leader, are all fighting for their political lives. it s an incredible time on many levels. and big picture, chuck rosenberg, final thoughts before we go. connecting the dots between the mueller probe, russia s interest in mueller, which we discovered in the past week and the events with michael flynn yesterday, can we prognosticate that flynn will have more to offer. maybe not flynn. it seems like that may have run its course, although i m sure prosecutors will be open to it. but there are pieces missing. for instance, when the mueller team indicted nthose russian military officials, they made reference to the to the fact that u.s. persons, plural, were in contact with russian military intelligence and helped in some way. so my guess is that there s more
that was nonsense. do you think in the end that is what anchored him the most? oh, really, you re going to blame your i mean, you don t get to plea, you don t get to come in here, you don t get to walk off scott free and blame all your problems on law enforcement. he yeah. i think general flynn s lawyers and this is easy for me to say sitting here days later, a day later, made a significant miscalculation. judge sullivan has a reputation for holding everyone to account, as judges should. and they thought perhaps that they were playing to an audience that would be more friendly to the notion that the fbi overreached, except it didn t. they didn t do anything wrong. not legally, not practically, not in terms of policy. there was no ambush. fbi agent are welcome to go speak to anyone they want to, including a general, including in the white house. so the notion that the fbi overreached or overstepped is utter nonsense. and the judge said we re going to delay your sentencing so t
receive a sentence of incarcerati incarceration, but i also have to tell you that at some point if and when the government says you ve concluded with your cooperation you could be incarcerated. let s talk about, jonathan, the white house, what s going on over there, the president tweeting his seemingly his support for michael flynn in the morning. sarah sanders still after this judge clearly lays out the fact and michael flynn clearly states that he lied and he was guilty of lying and he understands that, they re still parroting the old talking points. can you give us inn sign? first of all, i would say it s highly unusual for the president of the united states to wish someone luck on their sentencing day which we saw yesterday. after that same president accused michael flynn of lying to the fbi. and to the vice president. we also saw sarah sanders in a fox news interview in the morning and later in a rare white house press briefing, our
whether he engaged in something inappropriate. what we do know that was inappropriate by own self-admittance of james comey is that the fbi broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambushed general flynn. james comey never said that the fbi broke protocol or even acted inappropriately with flynn. do they send these around with fact machines? they come around with conspiracy theories and and hanging on to them after what we heard in court yesterday. toe the line. it s unbelievable. as the washington post put it, the white house lost its narrative on michael flynn so it made up some stuff about james comey instead. so now they re talking about james comey. that s joining us now, former u.s. attorney and former aid to robert mueller. now with nbc news law enforcement analyst chuck rosenberg. the judge delayed the sentencing, sent him back.
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