Good evening from the nations capitol tonight. Thats a live picture, under guard the casket of george h. W. Bush inside the Capitol Rotunda as ordinary americans continue filing past, thousands of them yet in line on a bitter, cold night. The state funeral for the former president will be tomorrow morning. To the business of this presidency, now day 684 of the Trump Administration, and special Counsel Robert Mueller is tonight recommending little or no prison time for former Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty one year ago to lying to the fbi to cover up his discussions with russias ambassador to the u. S. Just a few hours ago, the cryptic mueller team filed a sentencing memo for flynn in federal court here in washington. The documents note that, quote, given the defendants substantial assistance and other considerations, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range, including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration, is appropriate and
President s friend of three decades, roger stone, wants to take the fifth before a senate committee. He says hes not talking but is he trying to send a message . Against all of that, donald trump will be just one of five president s as washington comes together to bid farewell to 41 who, even in passing, has brought a rare moment of peace to our politics. As the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. Good evening from the nations capitol tonight. Thats a live picture, under guard the casket of george h. W. Bush inside the Capitol Rotunda as ordinary americans continue filing past, thousands of them yet in line on a bitter, cold night. The state funeral for the former president will be tomorrow morning. To the business of this presidency, now day 684 of the Trump Administration, and special Counsel Robert Mueller is tonight recommending little or no prison time for former Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty one year ago to lying to the fbi to cover
adviser to trump s campaign, and along with the candidate back then, helped lead the attack on hillary clinton. lock her up, lock her up! lock her up! lock her up! you guys are good. damn right. exactly right. there is nothing wrong with that! after donald trump won the election, president obama reportedly warned him not to hire flynn. flynn was, in fact, tapped, however, as national security adviser on november 17. on december 1, flynn and jared kushner met with the russian ambassador who later told moscow that kushner asked about setting up backchannel for communications between the trump team and the kremlin. later that month, flynn spoke with kislyak, the ambassador more than once, including after obama imposed sanctions on russia for election meddling. flynn was sworn in as national
he was familiar with foreign affairs and military policy. this is a significant blow to see this kind of cooperation detailed out for a white house that s under siege. you see a pattern building from robert mueller. all these different instances whether it s michael cohen, kislyak and flynn, paul manafort, all these different instances. we don t know the intent yet, whether there was a criminal conspiracy. we know there was a pattern of behavior here that could raise questions. again, phil, it is hard to know what s behind the black lines, but part of what we are allowed to read tonight, mueller s team seems to be saying, because he was a big fish and because he came over to team usa early that he might have inspired others to cooperate. yeah, that seems to be the signal, and they re also signalling that flynn was not only a campaign confidante of the president s national security measure in the white house but was intimately involved in that transition period, those two months bet
security adviser january 22nd of 2017. by that time, news of his conversations about the russian ambassador had emerged, and vice president mike pence had been asking about them. two days after his swearing in, flynn was interviewed by the fbi. january 26, then-acting attorney general sally yates told the white house about flynn lying and potentially being vulnerable to blackmail. february 9, the washington post reveals flynn talked with walter kislyak about sanctions. and on february 13, flynn stepped down. the white house said flynn was fired for misleading pence and other senior officials about his meeting with kislyak. the next day trump brought up flynn with then-fbi director james comey who later made immediate and contemporaneous