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Rolling dumpster fire of an atmosphere for anyone to want to work there. not only that, you might have to have a lawyer on retainer because of the mueller investigation thats swirling around this white house. so, you know, all of these folks -- yesterday around this time people were pulling their names off the list, basically saying absolutely not, that was meadows, and now you have a sense theyre trying to, you know, kind of at least acknowledge maybe this would be a good job, play nice with th...

This. a false alarm when it comes to that. interesting that you have the president reportedly trying to force him to fire robert mueller last year, but mcgahn, in essence, refused to and threatened to quit. but the person in the white house who kept the president from firing mueller is leaving. where does that leave the special counsel? >> first of all, i dont think anybody working for the president has much job security, and i think anybody working for the president probably should have a headh...

Retainer to cover anything that might come up. he writes a check to this woman to sort of get it behind them. rudy guliani was on here earlier to say that there was no acknowledgements of wrong doing or there was any real relationship here, a one night stand, any of the above. this is the kind of thing that those that are successful deal with. does that make sense to you and the president wouldnt know the details? >> well, you know, this is the iss issue. the average american will say what is it...

You obviously have to clear them first to get approval to do them. what is giving you the impetus to do it to get that approval? how do you submit it to a judge to be allowed to do it? >> reading tea leaves here. follow the money. were talking about the money itself. lets follow the money. step number 1. cohen said i took a loan out. we know campaign laws say very specifically, the maximum contribution can be $2,700. if the loan was $130,000, that bank form that you filed apparently according to...

These -- the search for evidence and this payment that was sent to michael cohen or to cover his costs for the $130,000 check that he wrote stormy daniels. a lot of people will read sinister intentions to that. if it doesnt involve campaign funds, theres no there there. but after that, its anyones guess. what do you think? >> thats what it looks like to me. you have the one hand, it could be an unseemly situation and voters will have to make a decision about that. on the other hand, if theres no...

Forth in what is called an i owe account. if i want to then use some of those funds, i need to get expressed permission from the client. so i have direct communication with the client, can i use these monies that youve given in the retainer to pay these fees. its that communication. and then theyll look and say, even if there was a reimbursement, nothing to do with the campaign, then was there -- lets look at the timing. the timing is an issue. youre looking for the intent of the $130,000. if yo...

Forward the complaint on the stormy daniels payout, and alleged campaign finance violations. so this all starts with you and your group, paul. whats your reaction to the whirlwind of the last 18 hours? >> its great to be back with you again. my reaction is that despite rudy giulianis intentions, he made donald trumps legal problems much worse with his comments last night. as did the president with his comments this morning via tweet. >> why? >> because before last night, donald trump had denied ...