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!"
– 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.