Good evening.

We begin tonight keeping him honest with yet more signs the President of the United States

has turned into a tool for rewarding friends and perhaps punishing enemies in the impeachment

of Russian investigations.

And in case you think that's overblown, consider this.

In just a week and a half since his acquittal, President Trump has already used his administrative

authority to retaliate against those who did their duty and testified in the impeachment

hearings or oversaw criminal cases against associates.

He's already interfered in the justice system to help his friend Roger Stone for one and

boasted today that he has every right to do exactly that.

And now CNN has learned that a turning general bar, who only yesterday said that no one

tells him what to do appears to be doing with one notable exception exactly what the President

wants done in this regard.

Officials telling us he's assigned an outside prosecutor to re-examine the case against

former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who likes Stone.

The President says was treated in his words very unfairly.

I think it's very tough what they did to Roger Stone compared to what they do to other

people on their side.

He got hit very hard as did General Flynn and as did a lot of other people.

He got hit very, very hard.

And now they're finding out it was all a big hoax.

Well, just for the record, Stone was convicted by a jury of seven federal charges, including

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