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Flynn Breaks, What's Next? (UPDATED)

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🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Producer Jayson De Leon chats with Just Security's Deputy Managing Editor, Kate Brannen. about the latest surrounding Michael Flynn's plea deal and where this all may point to next. Stick around after the break for Virginia Heffernan's conversation with TPM's Josh Marshall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

That's right, George. He has promised full cooperation to the Mueller team.

0:03.6

He's prepared to testify. We have told by a confident against President Trump,

0:07.5

against members of the Trump family, and others in the White House.

0:11.7

So I would say if I were in the White House, I would not look at that statement and think,

0:15.2

oh gee, Mike Flynn is still going to try to help us out. I think Mike Flynn is going to

0:19.1

have a house season that's all the truth. There aren't many more dots

0:22.5

right after Mike Flynn, right? Your dots go to Kushner, and then the President.

0:27.6

There really are no other dots here.

0:34.9

Hey, Trump Castle listeners. Jason here, producer of the show. Today we saw the biggest news

0:38.8

in the Mueller investigation yet. This morning, former Trump National Security Advisor,

0:42.6

or as Trump's lawyer, Ty Cobb refers to him, the former Obama administration official.

0:48.2

Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI. And joining me on the line to

0:53.1

chat about the latest developments from earlier this morning is Kate Brandon. She's the deputy

0:57.3

managing editor of Jess Security, a wonderful blog that I check basically every morning for analysis

1:01.9

of National Security Matters. And boy, do we have some National Security Matters to analyze Kate.

1:06.8

Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. So we've long speculated two things. That one, Flynn has

1:13.1

committed some very, let's say, jailable offenses. And two, they has the goods on the higher-ups

1:19.3

in the Trump administration, and perhaps maybe Trump himself. I'm not sure if I'd go as far

1:24.4

on the ladder, but this morning's news doesn't look good for the White House. Can you talk us through

1:28.8

what to make a Flynn's plea today? So I think the first thing that I noticed and other folks that

1:34.9

Jess Security noticed is that, you know, all the reporting around Flynn were aware that he

1:40.6

possibly committed a lot of different criminal type activities from lying to FBI investigators,

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