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We dont have any details y. is he doing this? hes troubled by the release of this snippet. ill be the first to admit there is not on its face any chargeable act in that clip that weve got. but seconds later when that thing breaks off, we dont know whats being said. we dont know the context of it. heres what i zero in on. number one, cohen is talking about needing to create a company to do a structured payment, a payment of some kind, to a mistress who needs to be kept silent or to ami in order t...

Questioning today, but this is 18 months in the making. what can -- and i know the prosecutors dont need any green light from congress, but are they at all weakened by the ongoing war between the fbi and the justice department? >> its an interesting situation because ultimately dojs policy is that a sitting president cant be indicted. so lets say that emilys backstory turns into an unfolding conspiracy between trump, cohen, pecker, take your pick of all of the participants to engage in campaign ...

Created. and we looked it up, it was some task force out there, but there still seems to be an accumulation mode. >> in fairness again to this group, as intelligence groups, it is not their job simply implement policy. so it is the state department, defense department, justice department, treasury department who have to step up and take action. >> so these guys are just sounding alarms? they did their jobs today, they sounded all the alarms? >> no, i dont think they have yet done their job becau...

>> covert, overt. >> how much time should he get in jail, wendy? he could get a lifetime. >> look, if they really believe that he was planning any of this stuff -- because this stuff does go on. the public doesnt like to think that women could be kidnapped and killed and that theres sadistic stuff going on out there. if thats real, he should get a lot of time behind barcelona. frankly, what id like to see is the nypd do an investigation of the case files. he was a cop for six years. he was inves...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. but they didnt do any act. not one overt act, which is required in federal court for conspiracy to convict him. and the fact is he thought creepy, bad thoughts. >> anne, he looked up a womans name and he went to her neighborhood after making a plan to kidnap her for $5,000. and lets change the facts a little bit. lets say the guy pretended to be fantasizing about blowing up a plane. then looked on the internet to see when the planes might be arriving. then he went to laguardia....

This is just fantasy." going all along, imagine this blueprint. yeah, yeah, yeah. but they didnt do any act. not one overt act, which is required in federal court for conspiracy to convict him. and the fact is he thought creepy, bad thoughts. >> anne, he looked up a womans name and he went to her neighborhood after making a plan to kidnap her fo $5,000. and lets change the facts a little bit. lets say the guy pretended to be fantasizing about blowing up a plane. then looked on the internet to se...

Its something that people at home dont need us to tell them its something bad and a crime and judge wont like it. if you are convicted youre going to prison a long time. its -- its serious. and you know the question is just did he agree to do that? was there a concrete step which is called an overt act in furtherens of that conspiracy? it certainly -- it certainly ups the ante. if i was mueller i would be you know trying to do whatever i could to try to prove that you up. and if i was flynn or a...

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