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We're going to be talking today about the news that lit up Twitter last night and lit up Fox news and maybe a few other outlets and we'll almost certainly light up talk about it.

Radio all day today and that's the latest twists and turns in the Michael Flynn plea deal with the FBI Sarah has thoughts I have thoughts we're going to work our way through it.

Also Sarah is going to dunk on my third party idealism and we're going to talk about an immigration lawsuit and also we're going to talk about guilty pleasure TV viewing that you're watching alone away from your family because

they don't share your tastes.

So it's a lot to cover, but let's start with Michael Flynn and Sarah let's why don't you sort of fill on in on the micro sort of like the most recent revelation and then we'll put it in the larger factual context and then we'll share our thoughts.

Okay, so Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about his conversations with Russian diplomat Sergei Kislyak.

And since then he has tried to withdraw his guilty plea and he has switched attorneys from coming to an emberling to Sydney Powell.

So on Friday Powell had this statement in the public docket the government produced to Mr Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr Flynn's allegations of having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the FBI.

The government has deliberately suppressed this evidence from the inception of the prosecution knowing there was no crime by Mr Flynn.

Powell then yesterday released one set of these notes.

Here's let me just tell you some of the problems before I read you the notes.

Yes, please.

Problems.

We don't know who wrote the notes with the FBI wrote the notes.

It's a pretty big problem for judging what these notes say to we don't know whether the person who wrote the notes was reporting on their own thoughts.

Like their own side of a conversation or whether they were listening to a conversation of other people and taking notes on that conversation.

Both are quite common at the FBI I will say and so when I read these to you just know that we basically have no context whatsoever for what we're reading.

And in the notes themselves it says on April 24, 2020 the government produced among other things a partial page of redacted handwritten notes to Mr Flynn.

The government supplemented this production in April 29 with the full page of redacted notes.

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