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Presidential candidates that have agreed with her plan. when you are looking the plan itself, you cant understand anything in it. it would lead to millions of people being underemployed or unemployed, maybe they come on code, who knows. it would lead to unconstitutional state violations because state and local governments are in charge of building codes. my question to her would be, how she read the constitution? knows about the tenth amendment? >> tucker: i think it is a fundamental misundersta...

Payments may very well be state violations of new york law. thats not something that either this whitaker, this acting attorney general, or barr, or even a presidential pardon can deal with. >> good point. >> i think this is serious new hot water. thank you, everybody. jeff mason, thank you, a fascinating interview. thank you for coming on to talk about it. we have much more ahead -- well show you what happened in the oval office with the president and the congressional leadership. no tables...

>> go ahead, daniel. >> one thing i was going to maggies important point is why up -- hes cooperating with federal and perhaps state agencies, and all of the fraud around those companies and payments may very well be state violations of new york law. thats not something that either this whitaker, this acting attorney general, or barr, or even a presidential pardon can deal with. >> good point. >> i think this is serious new hot water. thank you, everybody. jeff mason, thank you, a fascinating ...

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...

Criminal investigation, dont say anything ill of the president. >> of course, president bush had that same power and he exercised it in relation so weinberger and five other people. the problem is states have become more sophisticated lately and lsis a state investigation, and he cant pardon people accused of state violations. in fact, there is a statute that would prevent double jeopardy, in effect, prosecution of someone who has been pardoned by the president federally would be allowed to be t...

State violations, the president cant interfere with muellers investigation or state attorney generals investigation. with respect to firing of mueller, the code of federal regulations that governs this whole area is quite explicit that mueller cant be fired by anyone other than the attorney general. this case, acting deputy attorney general, deputy attorney general in the place of acting attorney general mueller without due cause or other dereliction of duty. so theres no right for the president...

Mueller and such? >> right. so theres a lot of discussion about whether or not the pardon of joe arpaio, the sheriff from arizona, was a signal to mueller that if he gets too close to people that could implicate him, the president, in wrongdoing, that he would use his pardon power as he did in the case of arpaio. in respect of federal crime, the president has that power. he doesnt have it in respect of state crimes. so if there are state money laundering or state tax, or state violations, the pr...

Because what the chp is saying is that no california vehicle codes were violated. gregg: so what. >> no federal or state violations. there wasnt drinking. theres nothing wrong with the trucks. >> so what. >> theyre saying -- well, because the spectators assume the risk. they saw these trucks blazing by. thats the sport. thats the inherent nature of this sport for the spectators. they wanted to watch it close up. they assumed that risk, gregg. you cant promote it to a criminal liability and put p...

Doesnt indicate a coverup. jane: would those officers, do they face charges potentially? >> oh yes, theres no question they face internal charges and they certainly could face criminal charges. jane: what would they be? >> criminal charges? you know, there may be some federal violations that im not as familiar with. as far as state violations, i dont know, thats going to be up to the states attorneys office. jane: the feds have been looking into this, saying theres a potential here for civil rig...