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Toobin is asking about the manafort case. he was his deputy both in business and the private campaign. part of their evidence is about stuff that happened during the campaign, including sharing polling information with ukranians close to russia. so you have some evidence on the polling record that rick gates remains an important, cooperating witness. >> thats true, but in the brief item that was filed by the mueller office today, they said several investigations, which at least suggests that its...

Immigrants are less likely represented. he talks about crime hes not telling the truth. illegal immigrants far less likely to commit crimes. talk about heroin coming into america. 90% comes through legal points of entry. he is not hiring crossing guards he needs to hire because he shut down the government and he wants to build a wall that wont stop those drugs. you can go point by point by point. not only was the president misleading the american people, he just wasnt telling the truth. >> this ...

Apparently tied to the russia investigation. it has gotten attention mostly because of how secretive it has been. last month, the company asked the supreme court to intervene when it resisted a subpoena arguing its beyond the reach of u.s. law. they were fined and ordered to pay a fine for everyday it resisted. yesterday, the supreme court denied the companys request to block the fines, the case assumed to be connected to the mueller probe because of lawyers observed on the case. yesterday, we l...

Century technology not old solution. >> you backed that up by data and the president wants his wall. you have seen republicans in the senate and colleagues start to peel away from him saying this is ridiculous, making the same case you make the people are not getting paid because the president wont move on his wall. how do we work our way out of this? how do the people get paid? >> the solution is simple, already out there. if you want physical barriers, you can complete the fence act, a handful...

Habeas corpus, so all of the presidents sources of emergency powers come from emergency statutes and the brannon center identified 130 different sources of this power. to say it is a patchwork quilt is an understatement. its complicated. thats where president trump thrives. using the truman precedent as an example, justice jacksons concurrence, the fascinating thing about this case, youngstown, all six wrote a separate opinion so hard to say there is a majority opinion in that case, but this jac...

Themselves with the president that brung them to the dance. we see that historically, thats not a modern phenomenon. it is historically a phenomenon, even a case i talked about earlier, youngstown, same accusations, that the presidents appointed judges tended magically to align themselves with the president. you talk about the supreme court case here, denying that mystery companys wish to get rid of the fines and the contempt, thats exactly the kind of thing that is good for the mueller team. yo...

Korea war and it made it in record time to the supreme court which struck down the presidents use of power. more important, justice jackson gave us the framework for analyzing whether or not the president exceeds his or her power when he acts without the approval of congress, in fact, against the will of congress. the short answer, in this third category the president acts and congress opposes, the president usually loses but does not always lose. in fact, in 2015, there was a case in that categ...

It certainly suggests a quid pro quo of some kind, any kind of communication that suggested it might give the russians some advantage or valuable information. information is currency in this world of election and campaign success and everything else. so, you have a connection like this between the russians, strongly suggests one of the theories of liability in the manafort case. >> a procedural question before my substantive question, how does this happen? how does manaforts team present a docum...

Interview, shows he is diving into this. he is not just accepting what was submitted to him by the parties. he wants to see the evidence for himself. which is a good thing, i think. it shows this is a very thoughtful, responsible judge who takes this sentencing role seriously. my guess today flynn has a chance of getting out of this with no time required to serve in jail. >> sandra: michael mukasey was on earlier saying there is not a lot of black and white in this case. >> i will agree with tha...

Midway through your piece you talk about defenders of the tactics used by robert muellers team argue his potential witnesses are generally guilty of some crime that lying to f.b.i. may be true. you make this point. but theyre targeted not what they may have done. theyre targeted for what they may know about the real target about -- about what the real target may have done. can you further make that point? its a strong one. >> yeah. its a point that was made by judge ellis in the manafort case. t...