Special Edition: A Criminal #Flynnformation and a Plea Deal
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 1 December 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty today and agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. We put together an all-star panel to talk it through. Lawfare contributors Orin Kerr, Stewart Baker, Steve Vladeck, and Paul Rosenzweig joined Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey to go over all the angles.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | special edition December 1st, 2017. |
| 0:37.0 | It's the Criminal Flynn Information Day for Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, |
| 0:45.0 | who pleaded guilty this morning to a single count of false statements to the FBI. |
| 0:51.0 | Under 18 USC, |
| 0:55.0 | 1,001 has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller. |
| 1:01.0 | Following our usual practice, we tore up our days and put together |
| 1:07.0 | a all-star panel reached by a recorded conference call. |
| 1:13.0 | Susan Hennessy and I are in the Jungle studio. |
| 1:17.0 | We have by phone or in a few days more of GW law school before he abandons us for Southern California. |
| 1:29.0 | Paul Rosen's Wig from now the R Street Institute and former veteran of special counsel |
| 1:39.0 | or independent counsel investigations. Steve Latick of the University of Texas and former NSA General Counsel, |
| 1:45.0 | and DHS Policy Guru and the whole record holder for returning to Steppel and Johnson to practice law. |
| 1:55.0 | The most times steward Baker. Welcome everybody. |
| 2:01.0 | So, Orrin, you've been a federal prosecutor. |
| 2:05.0 | I want, like, let's start with an overview from your point of view of what inferences you think it is fair to draw from this plea deal. |
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