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FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing. Michael Flynn may have given extraordinary... (Associated Press) 
  
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Russia investigation (all times local): 
  
 1:05 p.m. 
  
 A federal judge has agreed to delay former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing so he can continue cooperating with the Russia probe. 
  
 U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday set a status conference for March. 
  
 Attorneys for Flynn asked the judge to postpone the sentencing. The stunning request came after Sullivan warned Flynn that if he were sentenced as scheduled Tuesday, he might not get all the credit for his cooperation with investigators that he is entitled to. 
  
 Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts. Prosecutors had recommended no prison time, citing his cooperation. But the judge's rebuke raised the prospect that Flynn could get a harsher sentence. 
  
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 12:15 p.m. 
  
 A federal judge has declared a recess until 12:30 p.m. at the sentencing hearing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn. 
  
 U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said Tuesday that he "can't hide my disgust, my disdain" for this criminal offense. 
  
 Flynn pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts. 
  
 Prosecutors are not seeking any prison time for Flynn, citing extensive cooperation in the special counsel's Russia probe. 
  
 Sullivan said he'll take into account Flynn's service to the country and his cooperation, but will also factor in aggravating factors in deciding his sentence. 
  
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 12:05 p.m. 
  
 A federal judge is telling former national security adviser Michael Flynn that "arguably you sold your country out." 
  
 U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan says he "can't hide my disgust, my disdain" for this criminal offense. 
  
 He says Flynn committed a "very serious offense" by lying to the FBI on the premises of the White House. 
  
 The judge is asking Flynn if he wants to postpone his sentencing so that he can get full credit for his cooperation. 
  
 He says he'll take into account Flynn's service to the country and his cooperation, but will also factor in aggravating factors in deciding his sentence. 
  
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 12:00 p.m. 
  
 The White House was still questioning the FBI's tactics in how it handled Michael Flynn's case shortly before President Donald Trump's former national security adviser's sentencing Tuesday. 
  
 White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders is claiming in an interview with Fox News that Flynn was "ambushed by investigators" and alleges the FBI "broke every standard protocol" and "went outside of the bounds and the scope of the way that they should operate" when they interviewed him in January 2017. 
  
 Flynn's lawyers have suggested that investigators discouraged him from having an attorney present and never informed him it was a crime to lie. 
  
 But Flynn told the judge at Tuesday's hearing that he did indeed know that it was a crime to lie to the FBI. He also said he didn't want to formally challenge the interview. 
  
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 11:55 a.m. 
  
 A prosecutor with special counsel Robert Mueller's office says it's possible that former national security adviser Michael Flynn may continue to cooperate going forward. 
  
 But prosecutor Brandon Van Grack told a judge at the sentencing hearing Tuesday that the government was ready to sentence Flynn because of the extensive cooperation he's already given, which includes help that led to a foreign lobbying indictment in Virginia that was made public a day earlier. 
  
 Van Grack did not elaborate on the type of investigations or issues that Flynn might be called upon to cooperate with in the future. 
  
 Normally, defendants are sentenced at the conclusion of their cooperation so that a judge can evaluate how much credit they deserve for helping the government. 
  
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 11:25 a.m. 
  
 A federal judge is making sure that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily. 
  
 That's because of a defense memo in which Flynn said the FBI never warned him that it was against the law to lie to federal agents. He pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI. 
  
 U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is asking Flynn a series of questions Tuesday to make sure that Flynn wants to move forward with his sentencing hearing. 
  
 Flynn told the judge that he did indeed know that it was a crime to lie to the FBI. He also says he doesn't want to formally challenge the FBI's interview of him. 
  
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 10:15 a.m. 
  
 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn has arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington ahead of his sentencing hearing. 
  
 Flynn is to be sentenced at 11 a.m. on Tuesday for lying to the FBI about contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States. 
  
 He'll be the first White House official punished in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. 
  
 Prosecutors are not seeking any prison time for Flynn, citing extensive cooperation that has included 19 meetings with investigators. 
  
 The sentencing decision will be up to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. 
  
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 7:05 a.m. 
  
 President Donald Trump is wishing ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn "good luck" in court as Flynn awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI. 
  
 Trump tweeted hours before Flynn's sentencing Tuesday in federal court in Washington that it "will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign." The president adds: "There was no Collusion!" 
  
 In another tweet, Trump again disparages the investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Russia as a "Witch Hunt." 
  
 Flynn's lawyers have suggested investigators discouraged him from having an attorney present during a 2017 interview and didn't inform him lying is a crime, but prosecutors scoff at that argument. 
  
 Flynn has cooperated with the Russia investigation. 
  
 The special counsel's investigation has produced dozens of criminal charges and four guilty pleas from Trump associates. 
  
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 12:25 a.m. 
  
 Michael Flynn will likely walk out of a courtroom a free man due to his extensive cooperation with federal prosecutors, but the run-up to his sentencing Tuesday has exposed raw tensions over an FBI interview in which he lied about his Russian contacts. 
  
 Flynn has not tried to retract his guilty plea, and there's every indication the sentencing will proceed as scheduled. 
  
 Flynn's lawyers have suggested that investigators discouraged President Donald Trump's then-national security adviser from having an attorney present during the January 2017 interview and never informed him it was a crime to lie. 
  
 Prosecutors responded that Flynn didn't need to be warned it's a crime to lie to federal agents to know the importance of telling the truth. ||||| Before that, Van Grack, told Sullivan that "it remains a possibility" that Flynn could continue to cooperate with Mueller's ongoing investigations even after being sentenced. 
  
 Van Grack noted that Flynn, in addition to other significant assistance to Mueller, had "provided substantial assistance" to federal prosecutors in Virginia, who on Monday revealed charges against former Flynn associates Bijan Kian and Kamil Alptekin. 
  
 They are charged with conspiring to smear and win the extradition of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen at the behest and funding of the government of Turkey. 
  
 Sullivan began the hearing by pushing Flynn and his lawyers on their suggestion in a recent court filing that he might have been unfairly treated by the FBI in the case, which was lodged by Mueller. 
  
 Flynn told Sullivan that he did not want to withdraw his guilty plea or to challenge the fairness of the FBI interview that led to his plea. 
  
 Flynn's lawyer told the judge he had not been entrapped by the FBI. 
  
 "I was aware" that lying to the FBI was a crime, Flynn said, declining an offer by Sullivan to postpone the sentencing. 
  
 Some supporters of Flynn — along with Trump — had suggested he did not know that. 
  
 Defense lawyers last week in their court filing noted that Flynn did not have an attorney with during that Jan. 24, 2017, interview, and agents didn't warn him that he could be prosecuted if he lied to them. 
  
 "I cannot recall any incident in which the court accepted a guilty plea in which he was not guilty, and I don't intend to start today," Sullivan said. 
  
 "Are you continuing to accept responsibility for your false statements?" Sullivan asked. 
  
 "I am, your honor," Flynn answered. 
  
 Flynn lawyer Robert Kelner told Sullivan the reason the defense had talked about the circumstances of the FBI interview was because "we thought it was important for us to explain to the court those aggravating circumstances that are not present here today." 
  
 Kelner noted that a former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos and other targets of Mueller had been warned of the risk of lying to investigators, and those defendants "did have counsel and lied anyway." 
  
 But Kelner also said of Flynn, "He fully accepts responsibility, stands by his guilty plea which was made based on knowing and willing conduct." 
  
 Sullivan said those cases were not analogous to Flynn's, since they did not involved high-ranking officials who committed crimes in the West Wing of the White House. 
  
 "This case is in a category by itself," Sullivan said. 
  
 Flynn's lawyer said, "General Flynn has held nothing back. Nothing." 
  
 David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who now does criminal defense work, told CNBC, "Given the judge's comments, it was not unheard of for Flynn's lawyers to seek a continuance of the sentencing hearing." 
  
 "While both the defense and the government were seeking a non-jail sentence, the court was not bound by that recommendation," Weinstein said. "By continuing the sentencing and his cooperation, the defense will be in a better position for the government to file a specific motion seeking a downward departure for his cooperation." 
  
 Since pleading guilty, Flynn has been cooperating with Mueller's ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. 
  
 He has met more than 19 times with Mueller's team and other investigators. Mueller, in asking for leniency for Flynn, had cited Flynn's help in uncovering contacts between Russian government officials and members of Trump's presidential transition team. 
  
 Flynn's aborted sentencing came a week after Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes, and for campaign violations related to hush-money payments shortly before the election to two women who claim to have had affairs with Trump. 
  
 Cohen also had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about details of an aborted plan by the Trump Organization to build a tower in Moscow. 
  
 Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort, a longtime Republican consultant, is scheduled to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud charges on Feb. 8. 
  
 Those crimes relate to Manafort's work in Ukraine on behalf of pro-Russia politicians before he joined Trump's campaign. 
  
 Flynn was interviewed by FBI agents just two days after being sworn in as national security advisor. 
  
 In that interview, according to court documents, he claimed that he did not recall ever asking then-Russia ambassador Kislyak during a phone call in December 2016 to not have Russia retaliate against the United States for sanctions imposed on the country after accusations that Russia had interfered in the recent presidential election. 
  
 Flynn also told the agents, "no," when asked if he made any comment to Kislyak about Russia voting in a certain manner at the United Nations on a resolution sponsored by Egypt condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. 
  
 Both of those statements to the agents were false. 
  
 Flynn resigned after just 24 days in office after he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Flynn. 
  
 Hours before Flynn was sentenced, Trump wished him "good luck" in a tweet that also again reiterated the president's claim that his campaign did not collude with Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Mueller is continuing to investigate that possibility. 
  
 Last year, a day after Flynn pleaded guilty, Trump had said in a tweet: "I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!" |||||
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– Michael Flynn's fate was in the hands of Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday, and the federal judge dished out a surprise twist: The sentencing ended up being delayed after Sullivan suggested Flynn could actually get prison time despite the prosecution's recommendation he get none. Sullivan was doing no coddling at the start. "Arguably, you sold your country out," is how he put it to President Trump's former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US. Sullivan added he "can't hide my disgust, my disdain" at Flynn's misdeeds. CNBC reports Sullivan offered Flynn the option of postponing the hearing in order to cooperate further with Robert Mueller's probe. "If you want to postpone this, and come back at some later point ... that’s fine with me," Sullivan said, advising him that the sentence could be different if he went that route. "I can not assure you that if you proceed today, you will not receive a sentence of incarceration," Sullivan said. After a recess, Flynn's attorneys requested such a delay. The AP reports Sullivan scheduled a status conference for March.
Nyhetsartikel: FILE - I denna 10 juli 2018, filfoto, tidigare Trump nationella säkerhetsrådgivare Michael Flynn lämnar den federala domstolen i Washington, efter en statusförhandling. Michael Flynn kan ha gett extraordinära... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Det senaste om tidigare Trump nationella säkerhetsrådgivare Michael Flynn och Ryssland utredning (alla tider lokal): 13.05. En federal domare har gått med på att fördröja tidigare nationella säkerhetsrådgivare Michael Flynns domar så att han kan fortsätta samarbeta med Ryssland sonden. Domare Emmet Sullivan i USA fastställde en statuskonferens för mars. Flynns åklagare bad domaren att skjuta upp domen. Den fantastiska begäran kom efter att Sullivan varnat Flynn att om han dömdes som planerad tisdag, kanske han inte får all äran för sitt samarbete med utredare som han har rätt till. Flynn erkände sig skyldig till att ha ljugit för FBI om sina Rysslandskontakter. Åklagare hade inte rekommenderat någon fängelsetid, med hänvisning till hans samarbete. Men domarens förebråelse väckte utsikten att Flynn kunde få en hårdare dom. En federal domare har aviserat en paus till kl. 12.30 vid förhöret för f.d. säkerhetsrådgivaren Michael Flynn. Domare Emmet Sullivan sa på tisdag att han inte kan dölja min avsky för brottet. Flynn erkände sig skyldig förra året till att ljuga för FBI om sina Rysslandskontakter. Åklagare söker ingen fängelsetid för Flynn, med hänvisning till ett omfattande samarbete i specialjuristens ryska sond. Sullivan sa att han tar hänsyn till Flynns tjänst i landet och hans samarbete, men kommer också att faktor i försvårande faktorer när han beslutar sitt straff. En federal domare säger till Michael Flynn att han har sålt sitt land. Domare Emmet Sullivan säger att han inte kan dölja min avsky för brottet. Han säger att Flynn begick ett "mycket allvarligt brott" genom att ljuga för FBI i Vita husets lokaler. Domaren frågar Flynn om han vill skjuta upp sin dom så att han kan få full ära för sitt samarbete. Han säger att han kommer att ta hänsyn till Flynns tjänst i landet och hans samarbete, men kommer också att ta hänsyn till försvårande faktorer när han beslutar sitt straff. ____ kl. 12:00. Vita huset ifrågasatte fortfarande FBI:s taktik i hur det hanterade Michael Flynns fall strax innan president Donald Trumps tidigare nationella säkerhetsrådgivare dömde tisdag. Vita husets talekvinna Sarah Huckabee Sanders hävdar i en intervju med Fox News att Flynn blev "förvånad av utredare" och hävdar att FBI "bröt mot varje standardprotokoll" och "gick utanför gränserna och omfattningen av det sätt på vilket de borde verka" när de intervjuade honom i januari 2017. Flynns advokater har föreslagit att utredare avskräckt honom från att ha en advokat närvarande och aldrig informerat honom om att det var ett brott att ljuga. Men Flynn sa till domaren vid tisdagens förhör att han visste att det var ett brott att ljuga för FBI. Han sa också att han inte ville utmana intervjun formellt. En åklagare med specialbiträde Robert Muellers kontor säger att det är möjligt att Michael Flynn kan fortsätta att samarbeta. Men åklagare Brandon Van Grack berättade för en domare vid domen förhör tisdag att regeringen var redo att döma Flynn på grund av det omfattande samarbete han redan har gett, vilket inkluderar hjälp som ledde till en utländsk lobbying åtal i Virginia som offentliggjordes en dag tidigare. Van Grack utvecklade inte den typ av utredningar eller frågor som Flynn skulle kunna behöva samarbeta med i framtiden. Normalt döms tilltalade vid avslutandet av sitt samarbete så att en domare kan bedöma hur mycket ära de förtjänar för att ha hjälpt regeringen. En federal domare ser till att före detta Trump nationella säkerhetsrådgivare Michael Flynn lämnade in sin skuld erkänna medvetet och frivilligt. Det beror på ett försvarsmeddelande där Flynn sa att FBI aldrig varnade honom för att det var olagligt att ljuga för federala agenter. Han erkände sig skyldig förra året till att ljuga för FBI. Domare Emmet Sullivan ställer frågor till Flynn på tisdag för att se till att Flynn vill gå vidare med sitt förhör. Flynn sa till domaren att han visste att det var ett brott att ljuga för FBI. Han säger också att han inte formellt vill utmana FBI:s intervju av honom. Förre säkerhetsrådgivaren Michael Flynn har kommit till domstolen i Washington innan han dömdes. Flynn ska dömas kl. 11.00 på tisdagen för att ha ljugit för FBI om kontakter med den ryske ambassadören i USA. Han blir den första Vita huset-tjänstemannen som straffas i särskilda ombud Robert Muellers utredning om eventuell samordning mellan Trump-kampanjen och Ryssland. Åklagare söker inte någon fängelsetid för Flynn, med hänvisning till ett omfattande samarbete som har innefattat 19 möten med utredare. Domen avgörs av domare Emmet Sullivan. President Donald Trump önskar f.d. säkerhetsrådgivaren Michael Flynn lycka till i rätten när Flynn väntar på att dömas för att ha ljugit för FBI. Trump twittrade timmar före Flynns dom på tisdag i federal domstol i Washington att det "kommer att bli intressant att se vad han har att säga, trots att oerhörda påtryckningar sätts på honom, om rysk Colusion i vår stora och, uppenbarligen, mycket framgångsrika politiska kampanj." Presidenten tillägger: "Det fanns ingen maskopi!" I en annan tweet nedvärderar Trump återigen utredningen om eventuell samordning mellan sin kampanj och Ryssland som en "Witch Hunt." Flynns advokater har föreslagit utredare avskräckt honom från att ha en advokat närvarande under en intervju 2017 och inte informerat honom lögn är ett brott, men åklagare hånskrattar åt det argumentet. Flynn har samarbetat med Rysslandsutredningen. Specialjuristens utredning har gett upphov till dussintals åtal och fyra skuldanmälningar från Trumps medarbetare. Michael Flynn kommer troligen att lämna en fri man på grund av sitt omfattande samarbete med federala åklagare, men upptakten till hans dom på tisdag har avslöjat starka spänningar över en FBI-intervju där han ljög om sina ryska kontakter. Flynn har inte försökt dra tillbaka sin skuldförklaring, och det finns alla tecken på att domen kommer att fortsätta som planerat. Flynns advokater har föreslagit att utredare avskräckte president Donald Trumps dåvarande nationella säkerhetsrådgivare från att ha en advokat närvarande under intervjun i januari 2017 och aldrig informerat honom om att det var ett brott att ljuga. Åklagaren svarade att Flynn inte behövde varnas för att det är ett brott att ljuga för federala agenter för att veta vikten av att tala sanning. Innan dess berättade Van Grack för Sullivan att "det förblir en möjlighet" att Flynn kunde fortsätta att samarbeta med Muellers pågående utredningar även efter att ha dömts. Van Grack noterade att Flynn, förutom annan betydande hjälp till Mueller, hade "tillhandahållit väsentlig hjälp" till federala åklagare i Virginia, som i måndags avslöjade anklagelser mot före detta Flynn-associerade Bijan Kian och Kamil Alptekin. De anklagas för att ha konspirerat för att smutskasta och vinna utlämningen av den landsflyktige prästen Fethullah Gulen på begäran och finansiering av Turkiets regering. Sullivan började förhöret med att pressa Flynn och hans advokater på deras förslag i en ny domstol som gjorde att han kunde ha blivit orättvist behandlad av FBI i fallet, vilket lämnades in av Mueller. Flynn berättade för Sullivan att han inte ville dra tillbaka sin skuldförklaring eller ifrågasätta rättvisan i FBI-intervjun som ledde till hans vädjan. Flynns advokat sa till domaren att han inte hade blivit snärjd av FBI. "Jag var medveten" om att det var ett brott att ljuga för FBI, sa Flynn, att han avböjde ett erbjudande från Sullivan om att skjuta upp domen. Några anhängare till Flynn — tillsammans med Trump — hade föreslagit att han inte visste det. Försvarsadvokater i förra veckan i sin rättegångsansökan noterade att Flynn inte hade en advokat med under den 24 januari 2017 intervju, och agenter varnade honom inte för att han kunde åtalas om han ljög för dem. »Jag kan inte erinra mig någon händelse, i vilken domstolen accepterade en skyldig förklaring, i vilken han icke var skyldig, och jag ämnar inte börja i dag», sade Sullivan. "Fortsätter du att ta på dig ansvaret för dina falska uppgifter?" Sullivan frågade. »Det är jag, ers nåd», svarade Flynn. Flynn advokat Robert Kelner berättade Sullivan anledningen till att försvaret hade talat om omständigheterna i FBI-intervjun var att "vi tyckte att det var viktigt för oss att förklara för domstolen de försvårande omständigheter som inte finns här idag." Kelner noterade att en före detta Trump kampanjrådgivare George Papadopoulos och andra måltavlor för Mueller hade blivit varnade för risken att ljuga för utredare, och de åtalade "hade råd och ljög ändå." Men Kelner sade också om Flynn: "Han accepterar helt och fullt ansvar, står fast vid sin skuldförklaring som gjordes baserad på att han visste och var villig att uppföra sig." Sullivan sa att de fallen inte var jämförbara med Flynns, eftersom de inte involverade högt uppsatta tjänstemän som begick brott i Vita husets västra flygel. "Det här fallet är i en kategori för sig", sa Sullivan. Flynns advokat sa: "General Flynn har inte hållit tillbaka något. Ingenting." David Weinstein, en före detta federal åklagare som nu utför straffrättsligt försvarsarbete, sade till CNBC: "Med tanke på domarens kommentarer var det inte ohört för Flynns advokater att söka en fortsättning på domens förhör." "Medan både försvaret och regeringen sökte ett icke-fängelsestraff, var domstolen inte bunden av den rekommendationen", sade Weinstein. "Genom att fortsätta domen och hans samarbete, kommer försvaret att vara i en bättre position för regeringen att lämna in en specifik motion som söker ett nedåtgående avsteg för hans samarbete." Sedan Flynn erkände sig skyldig har han samarbetat med Muellers pågående utredning av rysk inblandning i presidentvalet 2016. Han har träffat mer än 19 gånger med Muellers team och andra utredare. Mueller hade, när han bad om mildhet för Flynn, citerat Flynns hjälp med att avslöja kontakter mellan ryska regeringstjänstemän och medlemmar av Trumps presidentövergångslag. Flynns avbrutna straff kom en vecka efter att Trumps tidigare personliga advokat Michael Cohen dömts till tre års fängelse för ekonomiska brott, och för kampanjöverträdelser relaterade till hush-pengar betalningar strax före valet till två kvinnor som påstår sig ha haft affärer med Trump. Cohen hade också erkänt sig skyldig till att ha ljugit för kongressen om detaljer om en avbruten plan av Trump Organization att bygga ett torn i Moskva. Trumps tidigare kampanjchef Paul Manafort, en sedan länge republikansk konsult, är planerad att dömas för bank- och skattefuskavgifter den 8 februari. Dessa brott relaterar till Manaforts arbete i Ukraina på uppdrag av prorysslandsvänliga politiker innan han gick med i Trumps kampanj. Flynn intervjuades av FBI-agenter bara två dagar efter att ha svurits in som nationell säkerhetsrådgivare. I den intervjun hävdade han enligt domstolshandlingar att han inte minns att han någonsin bett dåvarande Rysslands ambassadör Kislyak under ett telefonsamtal i december 2016 att inte låta Ryssland hämnas mot USA för sanktioner som införts mot landet efter anklagelser om att Ryssland hade lagt sig i det senaste presidentvalet. Flynn sade också till agenterna, "nej", när han tillfrågades om han gjorde någon kommentar till Kislyak om att Ryssland röstade på ett visst sätt i FN om en resolution sponsrad av Egypten som fördömde israeliska bosättningar på Västbanken. Båda dessa uttalanden till agenterna var falska. Flynn avgick efter bara 24 dagar i ämbetet efter att han ljugit för vicepresident Mike Pence om sina samtal med Flynn. Timmar innan Flynn dömdes önskade Trump honom "lycka till" i en tweet som också återigen upprepade presidentens påstående att hans kampanj inte samverkade med ryssar för att påverka resultatet av valet 2016. Mueller fortsätter att undersöka den möjligheten. Förra året, en dag efter att Flynn erkänt sig skyldig, hade Trump sagt i en tweet: "Jag var tvungen att sparka general Flynn eftersom han ljög för vicepresidenten och FBI. Han har gjort sig skyldig till dessa lögner. Det är synd eftersom hans handlingar under övergången var lagliga. Det fanns ingenting att dölja!" Vad är en kortare version av ovanstående artikel?
News article: FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn leaves the federal court in Washington, following a status negotiation. Michael Flynn may have provided extraordinary... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on former Trump national security advisors Michael Flynn and Russia investigation (all times local): 13.05. A federal judge has agreed to delay former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's convictions so that he can continue to cooperate with the Russia probe. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the United States set up a status conference for March. Flynn's prosecutor asked the judge to postpone the sentence. The amazing request came after Sullivan warned Flynn that if he was convicted as scheduled Tuesday, he might not get all the credit for his cooperation with investigators to whom he is entitled. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. Prosecutors had recommended no prison time, citing his cooperation. But the judge's rebuke brought the prospect that Flynn could get a harsher sentence. A federal judge has announced a break until 12.30 p.m. at the hearing of former security officer Michael Flynn. Judge Emmet Sullivan said Tuesday that he can't hide my disgust for the crime. Flynn pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. Prosecutors do not seek jail time for Flynn, citing extensive cooperation in the Special Counsel's Russian probe. Sullivan said he takes into account Flynn's service in the country and his cooperation, but will also factor in aggravating factors when deciding his sentence. A federal judge tells Michael Flynn that he has sold his country. Judge Emmet Sullivan says he can't hide my disgust about the crime. He says Flynn committed a "very serious crime" by lying to the FBI at the White House premises. The judge asks Flynn if he wants to postpone his sentence so he can get full credit for his cooperation. He says he will take into account Flynn's service in the country and his cooperation, but will also take into account aggravating factors when deciding his sentence. ______ at 12:00. The White House still questioned the FBI's tactics in how it handled Michael Flynn's case shortly before President Donald Trump's former national security advisor ruled Tuesday. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims in an interview with Fox News that Flynn was "surprised by investigators" claiming that the FBI "broken every standard protocol" and "went beyond the limits and scope of the way they should operate" when they interviewed him in January 2017. Flynn's lawyers have suggested that investigators deter him from having a lawyer present and never informed him that lying was a crime. But Flynn told the judge at Tuesday's hearing that he knew it was a crime to lie to the FBI. He also said he did not want to challenge the interview formally. A prosecutor with Special Agent Robert Mueller's office says it's possible Michael Flynn can continue to cooperate. But prosecutor Brandon Van Grack told a judge at the verdict hearing Tuesday that the government was ready to judge Flynn due to the extensive cooperation he has already given, which includes assistance leading to a foreign lobbying prosecution in Virginia that was publicized a day earlier. Van Grack did not develop the kind of investigations or issues that Flynn might need to cooperate with in the future. Normally, defendants are sentenced at the conclusion of their cooperation so that a judge can judge how much credit they deserve for helping the government. A federal judge ensures that former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn filed his debt confessing deliberately and voluntarily. It's because of a defense message in which Flynn said the FBI never warned him that lying to federal agents was illegal. He pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI. Judge Emmet Sullivan asks Flynn questions on Tuesday to make sure Flynn wants to proceed with his interrogation. Flynn told the judge that he knew lying to the FBI was a crime. He also says he does not formally want to challenge the FBI's interview of him. Former Security Advisor Michael Flynn has come to the Washington court before he was convicted. Flynn's due at 11:00 on Tuesday for lying to the FBI about contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States. He will be the first White House official to be punished in Special Agent Robert Mueller's investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Prosecutors are not seeking jail time for Flynn, citing extensive cooperation that has included 19 meetings with investigators. The verdict is decided by Judge Emmet Sullivan. President Donald Trump wishes former security adviser Michael Flynn good luck in court as Flynn waits to be convicted for lying to the FBI. Trump tweeted hours before Flynn's ruling on Tuesday in federal court in Washington that it "will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Colusion in our great and, apparently, very successful political campaign." The president adds, "There was no collusion!" In another tweet, Trump again devalues the investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Russia as a "Witch Hunt." Flynn's lawyers have suggested investigators deterred him from having a lawyer present during a 2017 interview and did not inform him a lie is a crime, but prosecutors scoff at that argument. Flynn's been working with the Russian investigation. The Special Counsel's investigation has given rise to dozens of charges and four debt charges from Trump's associates. Michael Flynn will likely leave a free man due to his extensive cooperation with federal prosecutors, but the run-up to his verdict on Tuesday has revealed strong tensions over an FBI interview in which he lied about his Russian contacts. Flynn has not tried to withdraw his declaration of guilt, and there are all signs that the verdict will continue as planned. Flynn's lawyers have suggested that investigators discouraged President Donald Trump's then national security advisor from having a lawyer present during the January 2017 interview and never informed him that lying was a crime. The prosecutor responded that Flynn did not need to be warned that lying to federal agents is a crime to know the importance of telling the truth. Before that, Van Grack told Sullivan that "it remains an opportunity" that Flynn could continue to cooperate with Mueller's ongoing investigations even after being convicted. Van Grack noted that, in addition to other significant assistance to Mueller, Flynn had "provided substantial assistance" to federal prosecutors in Virginia, who on Monday exposed allegations against former Flynn-associated Bijan Kian and Kamil Alptekin. They are accused of plotting to smear and win the extradition of exiled priest Fethullah Gulen upon request and funding by the Turkish government. Sullivan began the interrogation by pressing Flynn and his lawyers on their proposal in a new court that allowed him to have been unfairly treated by the FBI in the case, which was filed by Mueller. Flynn told Sullivan that he did not want to withdraw his declaration of guilt or question the justice of the FBI interview that led to his appeal. Flynn's lawyer told the judge he hadn't been ensnared by the FBI. "I was aware" that lying to the FBI was a crime, Flynn said he declined an offer from Sullivan to postpone the sentence. Some supporters of Flynn — along with Trump — had suggested that he did not know. Defense lawyers last week in his trial application noted that Flynn did not have a lawyer featured during the January 24, 2017 interview, and agents did not warn him that he could be charged if he lied to them. "I cannot recall any event in which the court accepted a guilty statement in which he was not guilty, and I do not intend to begin today," said Sullivan. "Are you continuing to assume responsibility for your false information?" Sullivan asked. "It is I, Your Grace," replied Flynn. Flynn attorney Robert Kelner told Sullivan the reason the defense had spoken about the circumstances of the FBI interview was that "we thought it was important for us to explain to the court the aggravating circumstances that are not here today." Kelner noted that a former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and other targets for Mueller had been warned of the risk of lying to investigators, and they charged "had advice and lied anyway." But Kelner also said of Flynn: "He accepts full responsibility, stands by his declaration of guilt made based on his knowing and being willing to behave." Sullivan said those cases were not comparable to Flynn's, because they did not involve high-ranking officials who committed crimes in the White House's western wing. "This case is in a category by itself," said Sullivan. Flynn's lawyer said, "General Flynn has held nothing back. Nothing." David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who is now carrying out criminal defense work, said to CNBC: "Given the judge's comments, it was not unheard of for Flynn's lawyers to seek a continuation of the verdict's interrogation." "While both the defense and government sought a non-prison sentence, the court was not bound by that recommendation," Weinstein said. "By continuing the verdict and his cooperation, the defense will be in a better position for the government to submit a specific motion seeking a downward departure for his cooperation." Since Flynn pleaded guilty, he has collaborated with Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. He has met more than 19 times with Mueller's team and other investigators. Mueller, when asking for mildness for Flynn, had cited Flynn's help in revealing contacts between Russian government officials and members of Trump's presidential transition team. Flynn's suspended sentence came a week after Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes, and for campaign violations related to hush money payments just before the election to two women who claim to have had business with Trump. Cohen had also pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about details of an aborted plan by the Trump Organization to build a tower in Moscow. Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, a longtime Republican consultant, is scheduled to be convicted of bank and tax fraud fees on February 8. These crimes relate to Manafort's work in Ukraine on behalf of pro-Russia friendly politicians before joining Trump's campaign. Flynn was interviewed by FBI agents just two days after being sworn in as a national security advisor. In that interview, he claimed according to court documents that he does not remember ever asking then Russia's ambassador Kislyak during a December 2016 phone call not to allow Russia to retaliate against the United States for sanctions imposed on the country following allegations that Russia had interfered in the last presidential election. Flynn also said to the agents, "no", when asked if he made any comment to Kislyak that Russia voted in a certain way in the United Nations on a resolution sponsored by Egypt condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Both of these statements to the agents were false. Flynn resigned after just 24 days in office after he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Flynn. Hours before Flynn was convicted, Trump wished him "good luck" in a tweet that also reiterated the president's claim that his campaign did not interact with Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Mueller continues to investigate that possibility. Last year, one day after Flynn pleaded guilty, Trump had said in a tweet, "I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has been guilty of these lies. It's a shame because his actions during the transition were legal. There was nothing to hide!" What is a shorter version of the above article?
– Michael Flynns öde låg i händerna på domaren Emmet Sullivan på tisdagen, och den federala domaren delade ut en överraskningstwist: Domen blev till slut försenad efter att Sullivan föreslog att Flynn faktiskt kunde få fängelsetid trots åklagarens rekommendation att han inte får någon. Sullivan var inte med och strulade. "Du sålde ditt land ut," är hur han uttryckte det till president Trumps tidigare nationella säkerhetsrådgivare, som erkände sig skyldig till att ljuga för FBI om sina samtal med den ryska ambassadören i USA. Sullivan tillade att han "inte kan dölja min avsky, mitt förakt" vid Flynns missdåd. CNBC rapporterar att Sullivan erbjöd Flynn möjligheten att skjuta upp förhöret för att kunna samarbeta ytterligare med Robert Muellers sond. "Om du vill skjuta upp detta, och komma tillbaka någon gång senare ... det är bra med mig", sade Sullivan, råda honom att domen kunde vara annorlunda om han gick den vägen. »Jag kan inte försäkra er, att om ni går vidare i dag, kommer ni inte att få någon dom av fängslande», sade Sullivan. Efter en paus begärde Flynns advokater en sådan försening. AP-rapporterna Sullivan planerade en statuskonferens till mars.
– Michael Flynn’s fate lay in the hands of Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday, and the federal judge handed out a surprise twist: The sentence was finally delayed after Sullivan suggested that Flynn could actually get jail time despite the prosecutor’s recommendation that he get none. Sullivan wasn't messing with me. "You sold your country out," is how he expressed it to President Trump's former national security advisor, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his talks with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Sullivan added that he "can't hide my disgust, my contempt" at Flynn's misdemeanor. CNBC reports that Sullivan offered Flynn the opportunity to postpone the hearing in order to cooperate further with Robert Mueller's probe. "If you want to postpone this, and come back sometime later...it's fine with me," said Sullivan, advising him that the verdict could be different if he went that way. "I can't assure you that if you move on today, you won't get any sentence of imprisonment," said Sullivan. After a break, Flynn's lawyers requested such a delay. The AP reports Sullivan planned a status conference for March.