CNN's Phil Mudd explains why the Flynn memo should terrify Trump: 'There's a size-16 shoe about to drop'

CNN national security analyst Phil Mudd on Wednesday said that special counsel Robert Mueller's sentencing memo for former national security adviser Michael Flynn should be making the Trump White House very nervous.

In particular, Mudd broke down how all of the redacted information listed in the memo detailing Flynn's extensive cooperation with the special counsel's office shows that he delivered information that investigators found both highly credible and useful.

"If you put the quantity of information together, the fact that there's a specific reference to Russia, three ongoing investigations mentioned in that document, I'm going to tell you one thing I'm going to take away," he said. "There's about a size-16 shoe going to drop, and that shoe is not going to be related to lying or to just financial irregularities, which is what we've seen in the past."

CNN legal analyst Laura Coates said she wasn't sure that there was a "size-16 shoe" about to drop, but she did call the Flynn memo a "gut punch to the president of the United States."

"You've got the president of the United States dangling pardons for quite some time... now you have the equivalent of a pardon, essentially handed down, to somebody who once called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up," she explained. "It's almost as if Mueller sees this and says, 'I've got a great deal of power as well through prosecutorial discretion.'"

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