Matthews: Michael Flynn Is ‘Looking at Serious Time’

Flynn, Matthew said, is thinking ‘I’m damn well not going to prison’ for Trump

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RUSH EXCERPT:

MATTHEWS: "Howard, look at this. We’ve been here before. You see a guy down — he’s right there, national security adviser. He knows a lot, and the more he’s afraid, the more he’s going to talk. The more he’s liking at maybe 20 years for not filing a financial disclosure honestly about money he got from Russia, not telling honestly under oath where he talked to the Russian ambassador about Russian sanctions. There’s a lot of stuff here, and he’s looking at serious time maybe. He’s thinking, I want out of this. I didn’t get to be national security adviser. I’m damn well not going to prison for this guy. I want to talk. And trump’s thinking, this guy’s got stuff."
FINEMAN: "Two things. First of all he wants to talk at a time when he’d be most useful. The committee wants to learn everything it can about what Flynn has to say from people other than Flynn. So they don’t have to give him much, if anything. So they’re saying, wait a minute, wait a minute. But if you’re the attorney for Flynn, you want to get him in there right away so that he gets credit for whatever he says from them. And also you have another reason, which is you want to give yourself what they call in the trade here in Washington an immunity bath. You want to cover yourself with as much immunity as the committee is willing to give you —"

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