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President any bad light, but as a legal person and looking at it from a criminality test, to the president do something criminal or could he be impeached as a result of that sort of stuff? i think that would be a very bad strategy for the democrats that are going to control the house come january. i think it would lead to a doctrine of unintended consequences. one thing you have to remember about the president, a very adaptive guy, very persuasive guy, and he has gotten a lot done for the americ...

Coming in to talk to the grand jury, but when will it end? as i said, i dont even know if mueller knows where it will end. i always ask, but if i have to, i will subpoena you on my show. >> move to quash. [ laughter ] >> thank you, pete. john barrett and paul butler, professor of law at georgetown. jill, well go ladies first for you. the cohen document says the president directed cohen vgts but do the documents say the president commit add crime, or is that vague? >> it isnt spelled out, but t...

I want to read a couple lines to get your feedback. it says the applicable u.s. sentencing guidelines range is 51 to 63 months imprisonment. and he delineates a number of reasons. this is the acting u.s. attorney since the u.s. attorney himself are from the southern district has recused himself. it says it requests a term of imprisonment, one that reflects a modest downward variance. so what does that mean? >> im glad you read some of it to me, because i havent had a chance to read the document ...

Automatically. and prosecutors are very careful about getting into bed with someone who can help them with respect to other cases if they havent wholly cleansed themselves. not to keep using those kinds of metaphors. because its a problematic thing that goes to the integrity of how they do their prosecutions. and could make such a person a difficult witness going forward. now, i havent seen the manafort document, and thats a separate case. but you see a parallel thing happening there. and even w...

Think that cohen is being cooperative. evan, explain this part of the document with the acting u.s. attorney for the southern district saying that cohen is not being cooperative. what is he suggesting? >> thats right, jake. part of -- part of the document here says that cohen determined not to be fully cooperative with the u.s. attorneys office in new york. according to them, he -- cohen specifically declined to be debriefed on other uncharged criminal conduct. so they were trying to get him to ...

Sentence. why this is important, what they say here is that cohen repeatedly declined to provide full information about the scope of any additional criminal conduct in which he may have engaged or had knowledge. so all along, i think whats important here is that we have been led to believe that michael cohen has been fully cooperative with the special counsel, with the u.s. attorneys offices. and if you read that statement there in this filing, that doesnt seem to be the case, jake. so in all th...

That the prosecutors would have to file where theyd have to weigh, is it in the public interests for this person to be granted immunity? >> right. >> and then the details of that would be -- would depend on the specific agreement that the prosecutors would have worked out with mr. peckers lawyers and ami. so i dont think we quigt know enough publicly about what the scope of that immunity agreement is. in other words, whether he has agreed to provide information discreetly about these two particu...

Meeting that is not a target instantly becomes a target, why was rosenstein saying that in the first place? one legal source told me during that oval office meeting, rosenstein would have done anything to save his job. another development announced, campbell wood, who is handling the arguments in court over whether they should be a special master appointed to see what constitutes privileged attorneyt information, she has set a status hearing for the 24th of may, which really pushes the timetable...