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He was also culpably involved in those hush money payments. so now what the state is looking at is whether that scheme also violated new york state laws. for example, because they tried to hide the true nature of these payments, claiming they were payments for legal services, when they were really payments for illegal services, that may very well have violated new york state laws with respect to executing fraudulent documents. it may have involved violation of state tax laws because if youre try...

States. new storms are brewing. new tornadoes are feared and nearly 40 million americans may be in danger. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room."s on robert mueller ending his silence and begin impeachment reedings against president trump. the special counsel stressing he did not and could not exonerate the president as he delivered careful remarks over at the justice department. he said charging president trump...

Prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting a sitting president. but that federal justice department policy doesnt bind state prosecutors whatsoever. and neither state prosecutors nor federal prosecutors are barred from bringing any sort of prosecution against the presidents business or against people who work for the president at his business, whether or not theyre his children. is this today new york prosecutors showing the president how to expect this will be done? joining us once again is joyc...

Eight are falsifying business records in the first degree. and falsifying business records is what the trump organization is effectively accused by prosecutors already of having done in the felony campaign finance case that is sending michael cohen to prison in a matter of weeks and in which the president is also have alleged to have directed the buyer scheme. and its true there is a federal justice department policy that arguably constrains any federal prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting ...

Justice department policy that arguably constrains any federal prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting a sitting president. but that federal justice department policy doesnt bind state prosecutors whatsoever. and neither state prosecutors nor federal prosecutors are barred from bringing any sort of prosecution against the presidents business or against people who work for the president at his business, whether or not theyre his children. is this today new york prosecutors showing the president...

Here? snow thats the question. doj policy says the president cannot be charged with a crime. academics are of two minds about it. on the one hand, if you arrest the president, he would be the only one of the entire branch of the government. theres an argument he should not be prosecuted. on the other hand, people argue theres no bar to prosecuting a sitting president. so its an open question. remains to be seen. >> with reports that the special counsel is in the process of writing their special ...