About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsels office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. There was strong reaction to todays news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. Their message, theres more to come. Inside the white house the
went to the lengths he did in the interview with the fbi to deny stuff that the fbi had wiretaps about. i think it s going to end up being a black area for this administration. thank you, carol lee, susan page, eli stokels, michael schmidt. we ll be covering michael flynn s guilty plea and the russian probe throughout the hour. where does the investigation go from here? will donald trump move to fire mueller or start giving out pardons? plus everything we know about trump s relationship with michael flynn. the hardball roundtable is here to talk about whether the bombshell news has anything to do with trump s increasingly erratic behavior this week and the tax cut for the wealthy. let me finish with trump watch on this historic day in washington. this is hardball, where the action is. farm to table on a blockchain, helping keep shoppers safe. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can t see. this is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data
possibility that trump actually had a hand in that. let s talk some legal questions here. john, you and then paul. let me ask you this. what about the president sees his son-in-law, he knows he has to care about just as long as he lives he s got to worry about his son-in-law, the husband of his daughter, his beloved daughter, and the father of his grandkids. he wants to keep him out of jail. i would think. the same way michael schmidt wants to keep his son out of jail, we saw that today effectively. there s the question. does he now simply pardon the guy? that kid we re looking at. he seems like a kid to me. i think any pardon at this point, i think any effort to try to undermine mueller or to fire mueller, results in impeachment proceedings. i doubt, i significantly doubt he s going to do that. paul? if he does, mueller would be like, make my day, president trump. fob number one, you are writing your own article of impeachment. that might be too much. a pardon of trump jr., of