Government prosecutors have released the audio recording of a voicemail from Pres. Trump's then-personal lawyer asking Michael Flynn's attorney for 'some kind of heads up' about the former national security adviser's cooperation with investigators.
Government prosecutors on Thursday released the audio recording of a voicemail from President Donald Trump's then-personal lawyer asking Michael Flynn's attorney for"some kind of heads up" about the former national security adviser's cooperation with investigators.
"If, on the other hand, we have, there's information that. .. implicates the President, then we've got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue, I don't know ... some issue, we got to-we got to deal with, not only for the President, but for the country," Dowd tells Kelner in the voicemail."So ... uh ... you know, then-then, you know, we need some kind of heads up. Um, just for the sake of ...
Excerpts from the voicemail were included in Mueller’s report and the government made public a complete transcript of the recording last week. "The defendant informed the government of multiple instances, both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation," the government noted in a court filing from last month.
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