Michael Flynn told Robert Mueller's team that the Trump administration and congressional officials had been trying to influence his cooperation with the investigation on Russia.

Washington – The former National Security Advisor to the White House, Michael Flynn, told the special council office that people connected with the Trump administration and the Congress were seeking to influence his cooperation with the United States. Investigating Russia, and provided a voice recording of a communication of this type, prosecutors said in court filing filed on Thursday.

In the interim, the judge in charge of the case ordered that parts of the report of the special lawyer Robert Mueller relating to Flynn be unredacted and made public by the end of the month . CBS News justice correspondent Paula Reid said she would give the public a first look at some of the redacted parts of Mueller's report on Russia.

The Thursday ruling of US District Judge Emmet Sullivan is the first time that a judge has ordered the Department of Justice to make public any part of the report that the agency would have kept secret. This could create a conflict with Attorney General William Barr, whose team spent several weeks masking the report's grand jury information, details of ongoing investigations and other sensitive information.

Prosecutors disclosed details on Flynn's communications in a court case aimed at showing the extent of his cooperation with Mueller's investigation into the links between the Trump campaign and Russia. Flynn, an essential witness in the investigation, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts during the 2016 presidential transition period with the ambassador. Russian at the time in the United States.

Prosecutors did not identify the people with whom Flynn was in contact, nor describe the exact conversations.

But they added that Flynn has recounted many cases in which "he or his lawyers have received communications from people related to the administration or the Congress who could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the 39, completeness of this cooperation ". Prosecutors say they were unaware of some of these cases, which occurred before and after his guilty plea, until Flynn told them about it.

Mueller's report did not determine whether Mr. Trump had illegally obstructed the justice, but he examined close to a dozen episodes for possible obstructions, including the President's efforts to discourage cooperation.

The report reveals that after Flynn began cooperating with the government, an unidentified Trump lawyer left a message to Flynn's lawyers reminding them that the president still had warm feelings for Flynn and asking for a "heads-up". up "s" he knew that damaging information concerning him. .

Sullivan ordered prosecutors Thursday to give him a copy of the audio recording they are referring to in the court record, and to make public a transcript of that appeal. He also asked them to publicly file transcripts of all calls with Russian representatives such as Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Reid of CBS News, said transcripts of all calls between Flynn and Russian officials will be made public on May 31.

Flynn was reportedly sentenced in December. Prosecutors said that he was so cooperative and so helpful in his investigation that he had the right to avoid jail time. But after a judge sharply criticized Flynn at the sentencing hearing, Flynn asked for his postponement so that he could continue to cooperate with prosecutors and reduce the risk of a criminal offense. " to be sent to prison.

The paper also details how Flynn helped investigators determine whether the Trump campaign had plotted with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

Flynn described investigators' statements by senior campaigners in 2016 about WikiLeaks – who had received and published democrat emails hacked by Russian intelligence services "to which few people were aware," they said. prosecutors. This includes conversations with senior campaigners "during which the possibility of using WikiLeaks was discussed".

A redacted version of Mueller's report published last month indicated that the evidence did not allow for a criminal plot between Russia and the campaign.