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Committed that crime. and thats where my question is, are you confident that you have the right people that you are suing? >> i leave to the dnc whether they have everyonen involved. i think part of discovery prosays may illuminate other parties to this suit. they do have the right pat buchanan peep per public reporting but you are absolutely right, there may be other people involved. i think that they have enough people in the discovery process that it may help determine who else is involved. >...

Dossier that has triggered the president since the day jim comey walked in and told him about it. >> if you think about the context of all this, the washington post and others have reported that michael cohen was known for recording conversations with clients, recording conversations with people he was interacting with on legal cases. and so if he had a discovery process, those e-mails, those audio recordings, they could all fall under that purview. and thats a challenge and its also something t...

Report. >> robert costa, let me get your views on something that has grichl driven the president out of his mind since it was first published by buzzfeed. the presidents personal attorney dropped his lawsuit against buzzfeed and fusion gps who was one of the outside organizations originally hired by conservative republicans, ultimately that account taken over by democrats, put out a statement because they were partially responsible for gathering some of that information and retaining mr. steele ...

Prosecutors who are pursuing this as a criminal matter, is there any reason they cant get that stuff from ami too? >> no reason at all. in fact, theyre going to get all this stuff and probably more than what would have come out in civil discovery. nothing about this settlement undermines or undercuts the work that the federal agents and prosecutors are going to do. they get this stuff. they get to put people in the grand jury. weve seen from other indictments in the mueller case for instance how...

Lawyer, pretrial discovery would have also included the submission of written questions to president trump and a request to him that he should hand over any internal documents related to this matter. so the president being forced by the discovery process in this lawsuit to answer questions about and hand over materials related to this settlement. that might have happened, but now this lawsuit has been suddenly settled this evening. that discovery process will not go forward. now, one might expec...

He takes these allegations very seriously. >> well, he should. collusion with the russians. >> the fact of whether or not he went to prague is at the heart of the dossier. thus far we havent seen any public evidence that this is true. mcclatchy didnt report that he went to prague. he just reported that mule mayor have some sex offender that he did. if he had gone to prague, of course, that would have been incredibly consequential. >> what do you mean some evidence? >> im not sure. thats how mccl...

Rodgers. tell me what this judge has asked of these lawyers. >> well, this is basically you summed it up pretty well that he would like the real representatirepresen -- legal reputations of both sides to get together and hash things out. theres been a flurry of filings in court and both sides want difference things. the lawyers involved in representing donald trump, michael cohen, they want things to go to private arbitration. they do not want all of this playing out in the open. already a lot o...

So sarah sidner has been following this story. the notion of getting all these attorneys together in the same room, weve seen it on national television and the judge is saying work it out! >> hes saying i am ordering you to come together. you havent done the one thing ive asked to you do. now im ordering you to come together, figure out what all the substantive and procedural issues are that you want us to tackle, that you want the court to tackle. he said, look, before you file another motion, ...

And the president didnt help him. and definitely any argument that the cohen team has about not being subject to deposition or the trump team not being subject to deposition, that just went out the window. and i think michael now stormys lawyer has a great argument for why there should be discovery in this matter, why trump should be devosed, why michael cohen should be deposed, why written interrogatories should be pent subpoenas sent, requests for production of documents, the entire discovery ...

Sexual harassment lawsuit that paula jones brought against president clinton, they decided a president can be sued in court for unofficial acts. now trumps legal team is appealing that decision and they want this case suspended until that appeal is hurt. now two important things to note. the appeal is not expected to be heard until september. the other important point is that based on the arguments that trumps lawyer is making and the cases that they cite, it apparent the goal here is to delay t...