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Stories there could be things that differ from time to time. a prosecutor wants to be able to limit the occasions on which one of his witnesses is putting information out on the record. cohen has shown hes not controllable in that way. >> brian, you get to be the closer. is it us for did this week pick up speed and become one of the more consequential weeks? the second has to do with color. tell us about the moment flynn and trump and the fbi guys pass in the hallway of the west wing. >> this we...

It cant be a campaign contribution. >> but the corporate contribution for ami would be clearly illegal. >> no, it would not be. >> this is why this thing is so weird, strange. the crime is conspiracy to hack. collusion is not a crime. >> joining me now are two former federal prosecutors, liam brennan and steve lawton. he just said collusion is not a crime but then he said it was over by the election. is he admitting to collusion? >> thats a great question, alex. i dont think he is. i think hes t...

Do the right thing and help out. so in my opinion, while were all focused on cohens tremendous value to the southern district of new york case and the payments to women and all of that illegal structuring of those payments, even perhaps placing trump in the room with david pecker from ami and cohen when that cram -- criminal act or acts were discussed. i think the value of cohen will play out over the years and his history -- the history will shape his legacy and that will be his cooperation wit...

Would certainly be an area of interest among "national enquirer" employees and prosecutors. what we know according to former employees is that theres a safe or a vault that david pecker used to have where he would keep some of the stories that he bought. we dont know where that safe is, and we dont though what happened to it now. we do know that pecker and his deputies are cooperating with prosecutors. i think an important detail from the revelations this week is that ami is going to continue to...

As the primary ambassador to pecker and ami? >> the kushner link is very intriguing. theres a new "daily beast" story about that. he was in touch with the nation"national enquirer" about various stories, also after president trump took office in 2017. because the remarkable thing about "the national enquirer" is it was portraying trump as a hero and attacking all of his enemies up until actually right until the moment the national enkwe enquires company was subpoenaed, at the same time cohens of...

Think poses the greatest threat to the president? >> i think the southern district investigation poses the most immediate potentially criminal threat. i think the russian piece is the larger threat. if you told me as a prosecutor, go into a grand jury tomorrow armed with only whats publicly known, id choose the campaign finance violations. theres the most developed factual record. ami, which flipped in last week. the tape between cohen and trump. >> potentially a vault at the "national inquirer"...

Skprgs th and this seems like an unnecessary way to anger the mueller folks. >> that is one of the surprising things, theyve indicated that flynn was extremely, you know, provided significant cooperation, met with them many, many times, met with the special counsel prosecutors many times, and provided information and, you know, various elements on all sorts of investigations. so it did come as a surprise that they were pushing become. theres been some speculation that perhaps flynns team is sign...

Wants. >> absolutely. work with the staff and first and foremost work with this president. the president tweeted, for the record there are many people who wanted to be white house chief of staff. mick m. will do the right job. thats sort of eyebrow raising when you know three people withdrew their names. its been a terrible week for the president. nobody wanted to be his chief of staff for a while. his former associates falling one by one. we saw michael cohen going to jail after implicating the...

This week also from mielk cohens case, ami weve learned now cooperating with investigators. were learned trump was in the room when they discussed the hush money payments to karen mcdougall and stormy daniels. if the president did not tell the truth about knowledge of hush money payments ahead of the election, does this prohibit any increased as it lets to whether he has told the truth about want having knowledge of russian election interference? >> ail of these are -- ultimately, this is a ques...

What theyve already done, thats ami and mr. pecker and mr. cohen, i think one of the things theyll look at are some of those factual issues and the timing of these things and the manner in which it happened before and how all of it mixes together here. >> bradley, as a practical matter, if youre right -- i mean, look, you were the chair of the federal election commission and you think that michael cohen pled guilty to something not a crime. why, as a practical matter, would he have then pled gui...