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Litigation and can be dragged into court and into trials in civil cases while serving as president of the united states. paula jones established that legal principle in her civil case against president bill clinton. its merely a relatively recent justice department tradition outlined only in memo form that says the president should not be indicted. and so the only conceivable reason why donald trump has not been indicted as a coconspirator in the cohen case is that he won the presidential electi...

He conspired with michael cohen to illegal affect. if donald trump lost the election and federal prosecutors were pursuing this same case he would be pursuing exactly the same cases as michael cohen. hed by charged with exactly the same two campaign finance violation crimes for arranging secret payments to two women during the campaign to buy their silence about sexual affairs with donald trump. michael cohen said under oath repeatedly that donald trump was a coconspirator in his crimes. the pro...

Not do this deal. >> stand by, evan. i want to bring jeffrey toobin in, chief legal analyst. jeffrey, in this document that robert mueller submitted to the court, he makes it clear, and he signs this document. youve been reading it, all of us have been reading it, that michael cohens lies to congress were deliberate and premeditated. but mueller, jeffrey, also says the information he has provided has been credible and consistent with other evidence obtained in the special counsel office ongoing ...

Information in his contacts. fourth cohen described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it. the conclusion said that the defendants crime was serious, remember this is only referring to his lie to congress. the defendants crime was serious in terms of the underlying conduct and its affect on multiple government investigations, the sentence imposed should refl...

Defendants seek when they cooperate. that can have a huge affect on the final sentence. and that means that the government here is being reasonable in the sense theyre asking for a guidelines to below guidelines sentence, but thats not as good as life could have been for michael cohen had he fully and completely cooperated. >> frank, youve probably dealt with this before. where youve got somebody whos extraordinarily cooperative for you on one instance, another law enforcement district says, yea...

3%. ill do 3% or more than 3%. looks like 2.9, slowing to 2.7 next year and some people, significant number of forecasters, in fact, two thirds of the ones surveyed by the national association for business economics, who say we will be in recession in 2020 at some point. that is a very dangerous situation, not only for the economy but for president trump if he chooses to seek re-election. >> if you didnt get the 3% plus growth in a mature economy thats one thing. but after that massive tax cut t...

Investigation, could -- influence marriage stjor steps investigation, and we assume that a count of a major step would be new inindictments and any sort of public report if something like that happens. are you suggesting that whitakers influence may extend to what happened with mike flynn, to the nature of the recommendation to the judge that flynn not go to jail? >> i dont know that it would have affected the terms that were being offered to mike flynn, it may have affect today the timing. it -...

Republican, one unaffiliated. that structure was voted, reverting it to three of the governors party and two of the minority. but the nine-person board is still in operation for the next week. so dallas is saying the best of the worst options is if they continue to work. then they change and then what happened? how does this affect the ability for the board of elections to properly investigate and make a decision on this? >> i think the question is does the current boards structure go back to wh...

Impression and probably rightly so that purchasing power is falling you know that in general centuries in france on the island but the cost of living is higher and the gap is widening. around one in ten in france as unemployed and they are afraid of a decline in living standards. to croon you with this standard of living and especially the situation of the middle class has fallen since the economic crisis there have been negative affects on the labor market with many more precarious jobs im part...

Tariffs on a variety of goods. i would have preferred more targeted action directed towards those sections of the chinese economy in which they are engaging in illegal technology. for example, they impose restrictions on our financial institutions and we should impose counterpart restrictions, and we should target those that benefit from their illegal actions. general tariffs have the affects of having an ill affect on american consumers. but i think his concern is a genuine one and i hope very ...