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Hide the amount of money from the public with respect to a campaign. that is a difference in this case. because trump according to cohen in any case has said that he is clearly trying to utilize that money for the purpose of the campaign. so that is a really key issue because for campaign finance law, for criminal violations, there has to be a knowing and willful violation of the campaign finance law. and additionally, there are some facts that are very different and were different for the jury ...

Week. and it would seem like at least some republicans would want to cover their bets here in case things go sour for them in a way pa that people are not anticipating. >> and well spend time talking about jeff sessions and his recelationship to president tru. but i want to get your perspective. jeff settles was treff settles s jeff settles was tessions was t endorse president trump. and im truck by thstruck by th forth this week. we sae saw tw the tweets and th statement from the attorney gener...

For political gain this way so directly. at least create a nonprofit or super pac to kind of route it through and clean it up. it is remarkable. but it is telling that the na "national enquirer" in both cases is involved. the john edwards case was exposed by the "national enquirer" and now they are stepping into hide these stories in what mr. cohen says in court is to believed. >> and picking up off of that going back to john edwards, jury finds him not guilty on one count and the rest of them t...

They are not done -- it is true that a criminal standard is a fact democrat fact factual one. so the question is whether the facts in the case itself show that it meets the criminal sdar standard. we know the amount of money meets the criminal standard, but we dont know whether it was willing and willful. >> and ill put up a full screen here. there you see don mcgahn of course who was a trump attorney,

How codo you react to that? it struck me as strange. >> yeah, i think it is less talking to jeff sessions and more talking down to jeff sessions. and again, this gets to the idea that president trump doesnt want to actually have this confrontation, this personal confrontation with him. he wants to leave jeff sessions be leaguered i believe he called him with no other option but to resign. if that is the case, if it is not president trump who fires jeff sessions, that is less of a red flag to joy...

Waiting for the presidents pardon. but because of the people that he was in business with, does he fear something from them. because he is such a rock so far that, you know, those folks may not like him coming out of the gate cooperating right off the bat. >> how did you process what happened on tuesday? ill admit i was on vacation. first the verdict in the m manafort case, and then michael cohen. this wascrazier than we have seen. >> were in this app world so twitter blows up or the "new york t...

Remove or at least license to tell job kellymp and now they are opening the door to give donald trump a license to actually remove or at least license to tell job kelly and ne opening the door to give donald trump a license to actually remove or at least license to tell job kelly -- john kelly to fire jeff sessions. and lindsey graham said last year that there would be holy hell to pay if trump were to get rid of jeff sessions. >> okay. so how about the public feud that is taking place here and ...

Lane. how much deja vu are you haviyo? >> quite a bit of emotional ichlts ick factor. but there are significant differences here. in the hunter case, there was money from an heiress who was funding the bad boy of john edwards to cover this up. and in a way to protect elizabeth edwards who was a larger than life force. whereas in this case it is not even donald trump donors or donald trump himself writing the checks, he is using money from the trump organization which is a corporate donation and ...