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Civil side when you have people from your own office detailed to the criminal investigation being led primarily by manhattan district attorney cy vance. so those were the two areas where they tried to attack these subpoenas and these requests for depositions as i read the judge clearly did not agree with that and ruled in favor of compelling their depositions. but that was kind of the center of their argument. in new york state in a civil trial, it is possible when you have a deposition to tell ...

You say. she was the richest self-made woman in the world. as of 2015. and now shes looking at a very long prison sentence. that in a sense is unprecedented. the story itself feels to me mythic and broader american ways. of great rise and precipitous fall. >> did you say pt bar numb and gatsby? >> our may doff. >> start up culture at large. will there be more legal over sight in a sector where criminal prosecution dried up? essentially. >> great question. these are rare cases. people consider th...

Records to the archives soon, thats going to totally reframe their work schedule for the next few months. very quickly, the new york state attorney general wants to depose trump in a civil suit, e l.l ir. this is going to happen. >> if it will, its a ways off. donald trump is going to fight this. donald trump can end this if he takes the fifth. will he? he know how donald trump feels about the fifth, but this is what the fifth amendment is for. we know hes being criminally investigated. now the ...

So it has to do with the valuations and what they put on their books. >> there were some wild numbers that they would use. >> yeah, i mean, over the course of this, at different points, weve seen all sorts of varied valuations. weve seen when the president is trying to calculate or justify his wealth when discussing his wealth with various magazines, as far as his net worth, where he stands in that, versus some of his filings while he was president, the value of certain real estate properties an...

What is focused here, it is focused on the civil side. if trump were to be ordered to testify on the criminal side under new york state grand jury rules, they could order him to testify. but it would mean they could never charge him for any of the things he discusses, any of the subject matter that he discusses. thats not necessarily true on the civil side. so, if he answers questions in the civil case in this deposition, he could -- that information could certainly be used not only on the crimi...

Manslaughter charges in new mexico, you have to show reckless disregard for someones rights who ultimately results in the individuals death. so all of that has to be investigated. but thats just on the criminal side. then you have the civil side. already its being reported that it seemed like the set was not being done this a way, exercising the appropriate amount of caution to insure the safety of the individuals participating in the movie. that really rings very clear that there could be civil...

Can do is get this over to doj quickly on the criminal side, get it into the courts quickly on the civil side. and they can do both those things, by the way. they should, why not, theyre both available. at that point, the people we need to be looking at are, again, merrick garland on the criminal side and judges, whatever judge in the district court in the district of columbia gets this case. look, judges can move as quickly as they want. ive had judges put what i thought were ridiculous time fr...

Attorney and was not part of the executive branch. if merrick garland chooses not to charge this, where does that leave the committee? where does that leave congress? where does that leave our balance of powers? where does that leave the justice department? this is a really moment of truth for merrick garland coming up right here. >> elie, we know the strategy in trump world, right, is to try to delay at all costs. usually thats through, you know, extending litigation. the m.o. was to sue people...

How do you see it playing out, laura? >> unlike last time when you had thumbing of the nose of people who had been subpoenaed, you have a very different white house a very different attorney general who is adamant about the rule of law coming first. what it means is that subpoenas are supposed to be complied with. the average person cannot ignore it. any time someone wants to challenge the validity of the subpoena, you still have to do it on a question by question basis. you cant just say execut...

Back to stand? >> at this point theres really nothing pending specifically against mr. cuomo. if there were a criminal charge that came out of this i investigation, his lawyers would be able to push back, challenge the evidence and get additional facts. in this moment its a report about not just mr. cuomos behavior but what looks like a culture of harassment and intimidation that many people were complicit in. i think thats really critical element of this story that gets lost. >> okay. there are...