muller as he investigates possible collusion between trump's campaign and russia flynn pleaded guilty to whine to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's u.s. ambassador in the days just before dawn and trump became u.s. president clinton originally said that he had not met the ambassador when in fact he had today a federal judge lambasted flynn saying he quote arguably sold out his country are joining us now from washington is our very own of my assuaged on the story for us tonight good evening to you my at ok the irony here it cannot be overlooked michael flynn during the republican national convention in two thousand and sixteen led the crowd chanting about hillary clinton lock her up today when flint entered the courthouse people were shouting about michael flynn lock him up. oh and it should also be noted that michael flynn used to be a democrat pretty much up until the twenty sixteen campaign if i recall correctly. a couple of also circle moments happening today in washington d.c. . it really was a surprise turn of events that. what we saw today happen the way it did not in

may of two thousand and seventeen just a few days later the man who would replace call me appointed robert muller as special counsel to lead the russia investigation the fallout from that fateful decision continues to this very day one of the main reasons komi writes that he is convinced that donald trump is not morally fit to sit in the oval office more on comments about the president and hillary clinton and others in just a moment our washington bureau chief went downtown washington d.c. today to find out what people are saying about a higher loyalty. you know i'm very glad he's talking a lot and getting a lot of press i think it's very important for people to hear what he has to say going to be interesting and okami has a lot of. he has a battle depictions trump basically kicked him out in the matter in the way it was done so i can understand his anger and frustration so much the same with what's in the book i strongly disagree with everything becoming did i believe that he is a walk in creek tragedy. a walking greek tragedy well i'm glad my next guest is not one of those tyson parker j

muller who was the special counsel actually conducting the law enforcement investigation why is he going after his former boss in this way well that's a good question and one perhaps is to protect his own reputation the president was very critical of call me on the way out the door i think another aspect to it if you believe komi to be a man of integrity and i think that many americans do they believe that is partly doing what he sees as a public service which is saying hey i have kind of a unique perspective on this administration and i have a story to tell and people ought to know the way this guy operated and so it's sort of a combination of those two things of course there's a commercial element to this as well just call me a certain to an awful lot of books and he is going to be on virtually every t.v. channel in the next week and a half year promoting the book as well what's going to surprise people most about the revelations in this book. well i think that one thing that really will stand out is the way the james comey recounts conversations that he had with individuals who can co

muller the special counsel if congress has passed sanctions and just a day or two before the state of the union this president pretty much the more he's not going to enact them the image of that either he didn't mention that either of course so i think the strategy is clear the republicans are trying to muddy the waters and clearly drag down the f.b.i. and the confidence in the f.b.i. and the federal government in order to make sure that it's just you know so muddy down that people not going to be able to differentiate and who's right and who's not in the co how do you explain the people here in europe when they're looking at the leader of the united states who in one of his most important speeches does not even mention the reality of the russian threat be it cyber or be it to nato whatever how do you explain this well he talked about all kinds of other things and the talk he gave basically focused mainly on an audience in the united states is not and so by focusing on his success for example in the economic sphere even though not all the facts there are riots he very much take the im

muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. has collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into prussian blue should start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were try

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your mom just the way you are because your mom to protect the country from that man. trying it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues relates it's rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. his collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame these text messages december fourteenth two th