here is a full-on investigation into what happened, and perhaps an investigation by the office of professional responsibility. you can t really be the government and rip up a plea agreement down the road in the absence of very unusual circumstances. because that affects your ability to make other deals? well, it does. and also the rules of criminal procedure very strongly favor the finality of plea agreements. so you can t walk in down the road a decade later and say i take it back. but that doesn t mean that if you re someone who is engaged in criminal conduct that you can t be prosecuted. in this case, other federal districts or even by state jurisdiction. so it s not like the government is without a way of dealing with the error that was made in the plea agreement or would have been had epstein not died in prison. you know, usually prosecutors when you re trying to get somebody the head of something work your way up, you find people who are junior to that
of professional responsibility. you can t really be the government and rip up a plea agreement down the road in the absence of very unusual circumstances. because that affects your ability to make other deals? well, it does. and also the rules of criminal procedure very strongly favor the finality of plea agreements. so you can t walk in down the road a decade later and say i take it back. but that doesn t mean that if you re someone who is engaged in criminal conduct that you can t be prosecuted. in this case, other federal districts or even by state jurisdiction. so it s not like the government is without a way of dealing with the error that was made in the plea agreement or would have been had epstein not died in prison. you know, usually prosecutors when you re trying to get somebody the head of something work your way up, you find people who are junior to that person and get them to turn or get them to somehow testify. now in this case, because jeffrey epstein is gone, we ha
there are some holes saying that some states like new jersey appear not to have the money to fix a voting machine infrastructure that has no paper backup to its balloting process. so what do you think are the viable solutions here? well, more federal resources will help. and this is what s, again, important about this report is that you have democrats and republicans agreeing on a common sense list of recommendations because the states don t have the resources themselves. so last year congress allocated $380 million to the states for election security. 85% of those funds will be spent by the 2020 election. that s a good start. the problem is as you pointed out some of these vulnerabilities are going to persist beyond the 2020 election. so this isn t a one-time fix. there needs to be more federal funding available to the states. this isn t a take-over of state jurisdiction. it s just providing the states with more money to be able to shore up these vulnerabilities themselves. you me
charges. i want to ask you what you think will happen here because they will stand even if the president would you make make of the new york charges? i think the most part it was grandstanding. in my experience having done this for almost 40 years now and you almost never see a guy prosecuted once in virginia, second time in d.c. in the third time in new york in a state jurisdiction. yes, while the president may have limited pardoning power as it relates to charges, new york also has a double jeopardy clause in the constitution. i think they ve got big problems in terms of the charges in new york. you don t think those stand. if québec did, what if it s just a portion of those? a lot of people discussing this week how the problem with this
is going to bring charges against the president is forget about the acting attorney general, i think in the past 24 hours there s been too much focus on him. there s rod rosenstein who will weigh in on this. there will be questions to any attorney general in the nominee in the senate, what do you think about these charges. there will be what a grand jury thinks about this. they are independent of the department of justice, and there could be a state jurisdiction that weighs in here. i think the real question is not whether the president did something wrong, it is whether somebody will do something about it. abby, you cover the white house for us. as you well know, the president has repeatedly denied any knowledge of any payments to karen mcdougal or stormy daniels. right, and that s the other part of this, is the fact that this is all exposing a long-running lie from the president and the people who work for him who have reinforced this lie over many, many months. it is becoming ve