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I think that is right. i dont think this rises to the level of contempt. chancellors has asked the court to the lawyers to shower show caused. notice it would ask smith to defend himself against charges of contempt. the judge might say the motions concert on the record and the trump camp is no obligation to respond, or she might ask the court to take these off of the record and give smith leave to file when jurisdiction returns to her. smith is trying to keep trump from running the clock. i assu...

Jurisdiction to do anything else while the immunity appeal is ongoing. and frankly this a good argument the judge does lacked that jurisdiction and that smith should not have filed these motions while that appeal was ongoing. >> so what happens then? lets say the judge agrees with him. does he just sort of put it on hold and bring it up when the trial is back in motion? >> yeah. i think that is right. i dont think this rises to the level of contempt. chancellors has asked the court to the lawyer...

The indictment yet? we dont know yet what these charges are entail. i think its a completely different game. hes playing now his legal team. is well practiced everybody around him as well practiced in trying to play delay game. you know, theres a reason why donald trump announced when he did right. he thought that this would help him if the with all the investigations going on and would help emphasize his victimhood, right, um it ended up getting him a special counsel, right? which is something ...

And so thats the reason why you saw the extraordinary speed. theyve made a ruling this afternoon, and now we expect kevin corcoran is going to appear in court as soon as friday, and well see whether the justice department what the justice department does after that. right all right. thank you very much. evan, and lets go now to ty cobb, the former trump white house lawyer. as i said, it had been sort of like, you know, ripping the band aid off hair by hair. and then all of a sudden, its boom, bo...

Robbery. prosecutors want to put him in the grand jury what to say, whats involved, whats happened. here, where pence got those very likely is there was an effort to recruit him for conspiracy, to interfere with the government. prosecutors are entitled to get all of the details, and then prosecutors, and a jury, can draw the conclusion about whether anything criminal happened. >> i dont think you have to be clairvoyant to know that trumps team, will likely, claim executive privilege and i wonder...

Until you look at nonjust the returns themselves, but the backup details. tax prosecutions require willful behavior by the taxpayer. one would expect that trump might try to use a defense if there is something wrong or fraudulent in his taxes, a reliance on his preparers. while that can be a defense, there can also be charges that can be brought based on the underlying knowledge that the taxpayer has, ultimate control what goes into the forms. at this point i would say with this big release, its...

Only very partial protection from having to answer questions under whats called the speech is and debate clause in the constitution. that says that a sitting member of congress like lindsey graham does not have to answer questions about his legislative activities. thats what the courts found. now whats legislative? well, the court said its definitely not anything you did politically with the trump campaign, its definitely not your public statements and its definitely not any pressure that you pu...

Here we are at district court. case needs to be briefed, argued, decided. it will go to the court of appeals. whoever loses will try to get it to the supreme court. the chances of all of that in 52 days are slim to none. its not a surprise donald trump is playing the delay game and they have made it easy for him to do it successfully. >> a special announcement will be announced at mar-a-lago. cnn previously reported trump and his team were eyeing the third week of november as a window for a pote...

A, because a justice decision from the beginning is kind of incoherent. asking a special master as respective as this individual is with the background in the fisa court to make a decision. >> why do think its encounter? >> its encounter because youre asking somebody to review cops equal documents and nobody should be looking at. but youre asking about the raw politics of this right? so putting it aside doesnt make any sense at all. you are increasing the chance itll run into a conflict with the...

>> that has consequences politically. this is what the doj wanted. he wanted it to end by october unless a higher court steps in. this is going to move slowly, right? >> yeah. look, the question is whether the doj does try to get this all thrown out because the judges decision from the beginning is incoherent. you are asking the special master, with a background of the pfizer court reviewing documents. >> why do you think its incoherent? >> its incoherent because you are asking someone to review...