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Literally hundreds of billions of dollars without a rather explicit authorisation and so, and a sense, it was— authorisation and so, and a sense, it was a _ authorisation and so, and a sense, it was a bit— authorisation and so, and a sense, it was a bit of— authorisation and so, and a sense, it was a bit of a mundane dispute over— it was a bit of a mundane dispute over how— it was a bit of a mundane dispute over how to— it was a bit of a mundane dispute over how to interpret particul...

Something that will just be accepted by a judge because it has not been tested. >> of course, it has not been tested. i will tell you one thing to keep your eye on all times is the third prong, the willful-ness prong. in the statute, willful-ness means as it does broadly in other statutes, it means that the person acted knowing that here she did something the law prohibited. if you follow that series through, and he believed he had to write to these documents, hes entitled to a jury charge that ...

Barr has pointed out that these are documents that were created by the government and also classified, he acknowledges that part of it, that they were classified. so in order to then go and say, while they are personal now, that would also have to be proven in court. so i take your point that they are going to make that case, but i think that we should just be clear that this is not a, something that will just be accepted by a judge because it has not been tested. >> of course, it has not been t...

Whether takes law violation, the prosecutors will have to say. but clearly they made claims that there was a campaign account that didnt exist. whether it violates wire fraud statutes remains to be seen. >> and congresswoman, you led the public hearing focused on what you coined the big rift. and where do you think and how many people do you think are exposed criminality on that front? >> hard to know, but there was a very large group of people working to promote the fraud, they knew it was and ...

Discipline. but every time he goes on the air, he moves himself one step closer to prison. >> yeah, not good. i mean, if he hasnt done this consistently since the fbi showed up at mar-a-lago, this is a consistent pattern of his, his more or less, to mikas point earlier, he continues to maintain the things that hes admitting to are not illegal. this is where the cognitive dissonance comes in for trump. he has this view somehow contrary to everyone else whos read the statutes involved or understan...

Government employees when it comes to accepting gifts and maybe clarifying so theres no doubt in justice alitos mind that he doesnt have to go, as he did in his op-ed to arcane sections of criminal law, a statute he cites, deals with the breadth of interstate commerce, a facility including transportation. that begs the question, when alito took the trips, did he look up all the vague statutes in advance or did he do it after the controversy crept up. i dont know which one is better or worse. the...

At the war crimes tribunal, and we begged the justice department to give us another picture so that we could show it on television, and he politely declined to sit for a new photograph. >> he is apparently going to maintain this speak softly and carry a big indictment approach to the case. i would expect that hes had the benefit of learning from his predecessors. >> like recent special counsel robert mueller. >> its finally here. robert mueller testifies today. >> robert mueller had that disastr...

And choose statutes they want to apply, if they want they could make that office, you know a political weapon, against those they dont like. i have watched in increase. now you see the absolute pinnacle of using your office to go after someone that you dont like rather than someone that committed a crime, and espionage i would add, there is no reasonable prosecutor who is fairly looking at the law who would utilize the espionage act gaingt against a former president who had classified documents ...

And choose statutes they want to apply, if they want they could make that office, you know a political weapon, against those they dont like. i have watched in increase. now you see the absolute pinnacle of using your office to go after someone that you dont like rather than someone that committed a crime, and espionage i would add, there is no reasonable prosecutor who is fairly looking at the law who would utilize the espionage act gaingt against a former president who had classified documents ...

At the war crimes tribunal, and we begged the justice department to give us another picture so that we could show it on television, and he politely declined to sit for a new photograph. >> he is apparently going to maintain this speak softly and carry a big indictment approach to the case. i would expect that hes had the benefit of learning from his predecessors. >> like recent special counsel robert mueller. >> its finally here. robert mueller testifies today. >> robert mueller had that disastr...