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“TRUMPISM & Toressism” seem to have the same political strategy when it comes to “admitting the truth and letting it be told” with the implementation of “lies, deflecting, gaslighting and

Whats your argument? >> i think its exactly in the constitution, the supremacy clause, the idea of separation of powers. it may go to the supreme court ultimately. were going to win this. you can sfnot have a president subject to 5,000 local district attorneys who have a bone to pick or thels president would be interfered with by local magistrates. i think were going to win. you know what i think? hes wrong and hes going to be reversed. >> theyre not asking for him. theyre asking for documents r...

Certainly not from the constitution. i think you dont have basis and you dont have an application. youre going to lose. whats your argument? >> i think its exactly in the constitution, the supremacy clause, the whole idea of separation of powers. i this i wenk we going to win. were going to win this. heres why. you cannot have a president subject to 5,000 local district courts w-- district attorneys wo have a problem with the president of the united states. i saw the district courts opinion. i t...

Hes the co-author of "to end a presidency: the power of impeachment." professor tribe, i give you the lecture hall for can the president shoot someone on fifth avenue and the manhattan district attorney simply has to look the other way? >> the answer is no. we dont have a constitution, thank goodness, in which the president is that much above the law. but in fact, the position that his lawyers were taking today in the federal court filing is even more extreme than that. they have taken the posit...

Its called the anti-injunction act. and it says that no federal court can interfere with an ongoing state proceeding. so that when the judge finally has to rule on this outlandish claim that you cannot investigate criminality on the part of the president, his company and his cronies, the judge will have the obligation under the anti-injunction act, 28 usc 2283, to dismiss the case because it is not permissible for a federal court as a principle basically of states rights, believe it or not, its ...

Texaco, the u.s. supreme court said on behalf of one company that had lost a big judgment in a state court that it couldnt run off to federal court to kind of interrupt the state proceeding. the only way to get federal review of a state judgment is to let the state proceeding run its course and then take your chances with asking the u.s. supreme court to review the result. but the most important point, even more important than the fact that theyve, you know, gone to the wrong court in order to t...

The federal court filing is even more extreme than that. they have taken the position that the presidents company cannot be investigated, that those who may have conspired with him to commit financial and other crimes cannot be investigated, that the whole state proceeding must be stopped in its tracks. among other things, there is a federal law going all the way back to the founding, actually to 1793. its called the anti-injunction act. and it says that no federal court can interfere with an on...

Conceivably be relevant would be the civil rights laws. the civil rights laws if the president said this lawsuit thats being brought against me by cy vance violates my first amendment in a case i argued one in the supreme court called pennzoil v texaco in 1987 the supreme court said on behalf of one company that had lost a big judgment in estate court that it couldnt run off to federal court to kind of interrupt the state proceeding. the only way to get federal review of a state judgment is to l...

If somehow he were pardoned by the president, all a state attorney general need do, whether its in new york or whether its in virginia, on the tax violations, they need only take this and use that to prosecute paul manafort for state violations. >> right. because its not like he went to those lengths to evade federal taxes and then paid every last state tax. >> exactly. and in new york state you have a very strict money-lan derring statute that probably has more onerous penalties than the federa...