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Conditions of supervision, along with 200 hours of community service. they also wrote, as the government states, his early decision to plead guilty and cooperate likely affected the decisions of related firsthand witnesses to be forthcoming within the special counsel s office and cooperate. there is also news tonight about paul manafort, a judge says m s mueller prosecutors must offer more information about the alleged lies that manafort told that led the feds to shred his cooperation deal. that case, what you need to know, has now been pushed to early january. and on this busy tuesday night, let s bring in our leadoff panel. julia ainsley, nbc news national security and justice reporter. mimi roka, former attorney, in all places the southern district of new york. where have we heard that? a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at the pace university school of law. robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post. ....
Moderator of washington week on pbs. sam stein back with us, politi s editor for the daily beast. good evening, welcome to you all. because it s most recent, mimi, i d like to begin with you on this flynn filing by his lawyers. they write a little section in there that when the fbi was going over to the white house to talk to flynn, in their telling, flynn may not have been may not have had the warning repeated to him that a lot of folks go around knowing, that it s a crime to lie to the feds. right. so it s interesting, actually, what they actually say in the memo is that he wasn t warned about the penalties of lying to the fbi. so it s not entirely clear to me whether they re saying they didn t tell him it was a crime, or they didn t tell him how much trouble he could be in, but that argument really doesn t go very far. i mean, this is, you know, the former director of national intelligence, i mean, he s a military man. as you say, most people on the street would know it s a cr ....
They re going. we have nothing evident from the mueller report in terms of its finality. we haven t even begun congressional investigations. the senate intelligence investigation into russian meddling hasn t concluded, either. so if trump is at this juncture openly talking about the prospects of impeachment before any of these real investigative findings have been produced publicly, then he is in for two years of utter political hell, and we could be in a situation which, in fact, the democratic base is pushing the party to go far further than party leadership is willing to go. so, mimi, short term, tomorrow, in a federal courtroom where i am sure you have experience speaking to a federal judge, mr. cohen, do i have that about right, is going to be given the opportunity to make a statement prior to sentencing? and do you expect any surprises out of that? absolutely, he will be able to speak. that s a right by law, actually, and his lawyer, i expect actually his lawyer probably to s ....
Remains to be seen, but that s a persuasive case. ken for us, thank you. we have assembled quite the roster of experts here on a monday morning. sometimes i say it and i don t mean it, but this morning i mean it. mimi roka, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, senior fbi official, jennifer reuben here in person, an opinion writer at the washington post. all of them, msnbc analysts. chuck, i ll start with you. do prosecutors appear to have a smoking gun here as it relates to campaign finance violations? and can the president be prosecuted? the second question first, yes, when he leaves office. while he s in office, open question. there s doj policy that says no, but it s never been litigated. and it would have to be litigated for us to have a definitive answer. right now doj policy says a sitting president cannot be ....
Sentencing memorandum on michael flynn who has pled quality of lying to the fbi. new charges could be brought against paul manafort for allegedly violate his plea agreement with the special counsel. michael cohen pled guilty last week of lying to congress. roger stone, meanwhile, telling abc he had absolutely no contact with the wikileaks founder and he has not been contacted by robert mueller s team. and president trump in the past few minutes with four tweets critical of robert mueller and michael cohen. but supportive of roger stone. bret stephens still with me and mimi roka joining us as well. mimi, do you get the sense we re ....