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>> a retainer is an interesting concept. sometimes its a flat fee but sometimes its an amount thats paid due that you have to put in your client trust account and pay yourself as you bill hourly. but theres a lot of rules that relate to retainers. a retainer, you cant just, in many cases, take someones check or take someones money and just stuff it into your pocket. just as it is with any business in america, but with lawyers, there are several additional ethical rules. we have to tell our clien...

Source of the funds, sounds like they were, because they are sort of passing it through, you know, the law firm, trying to disguise it, i think, as a legal retainer,ú>áz retainer fee, the where did thevo;n#unds original come from? if they came from, you know, a legitimate source, then, okay -- >>élww say they came from mr. trumps private personal bank account? >> then you probably dont have a separate crime, it still would be in campaign finance land. but if it came -- i dont know where it ca...

Contributions, because he was giving a personal loan that had nothing to6hg5 do with the camp. its just a loan that was repaid. this other thing about the retainer agreement that allows a whole bunch of money to sit in a pot that apparently, you know, mt uses to pay off, you know, random people who come up and make claims -- >> harassment paps. >> whatever those are, fortunately, not part of my practice, but apparently, according to him, its part of his. but what they does is, it moves the presi...

Empowered to charge paul manafort with the stuff they have charged him with. now, paul manafort has already lost this civil case, its been dismissed as of last week, but you might remember that the mueller team, bob muellers prosecutors gave us one really juicy document in their court filings where they were trying to febd off this civil suit from paul manafort. remember, the civil suit is saying that the special counsels office is operating illegally, they have no authority to go after paul man...

>> there is no doubt there was a crime we all know was committed. mueller has yet to tell us who he is specifically charging for that crime. we assume it will be the gru and russian intelligence. i think we have to wait to ehim talk there. me me let me go to the other issue that giuliani seemed to dredge up and create problems for the president here. and thats the stormy daniels payment. based on everything we now know that rudy giuliani said -- specifically, essentially speculating about you ho...

Well figure that out this hour and then theres also the michael cohen case, and its revelations today. we know from previous reporting and publicly filed court documents in the cohen case that federal prosecutors in new york and federal agents working with them got warrant to surveil multiple e-mail accounts used by michael cohen. we know that in executing search warrants pertaining to mr. cohen, federal agents seized multiple electronic devices he used including phones, uó9/ blackberrys, table...

Aka stormy daniels, she was also right about the president yg >> i am confident that when we get to the bottom of this, and we are going to get to the bottom of this, this case is not going to be settled or dismissed until we get to the bottom of it, im confident that were going to discover that the president knew about the agreement, knew about the $130,000, either contemporaneous with the payment or shortly thereafter. >> thatv@$/ was stormy daniels lawyer a week ago. this is today. trump ackn...