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So in order -- when you have all of those things together, at that point, you can be charged with or somebody can be charged with improperly influencing an election, but most specifically, to these charges, making a campaign donation in excess of the maximum allowable amount. in this case, they paid karen mcdougal $150,000, clearly above the $25,000 threshold. so at that point, they committed a crime. if they had just -- they can go around, they can pay you, they can pay me. anybody on the stree...

First of all, the house of representatives draws up articles of impeachment. think of the house as the prosecutor, the document details any, quote, high crimes and merchandise that the president is believed to be guilty of. only the house can bring charges against a president but any individual congress person can start this process. next, the house votes. at least two-thirds of the chamber have to approve the impeachment. 288 votes as its currently instituted since there are four vacancies in t...

Because the alternative of course would be, you know, we really cant reach agreement on any of the counts, okay, a totally different note. that would have been really difficult. so the point is i think muellers probably relatively happy. and then real quick, lastly, as has been explained, i mean, you can take a verdict on counts where theres an agreement and you can ostensibly have a mistrial. >> so on that point, from the perspective that there could be could be census, would it necessarily be ...

President has no one to turn to he gives less than sage advice and makes less than sage decisions. however, the courts have not fully resolved this issue of whether or not they have a true executive privilege with don mcgahn but the public interest of a crime commit, thats a higher threshold and one that the court will always say if justice will prevail only if theres testimony or statements that wins. >> you know, the president compared robert mueller and his team to john mccarthy. study the la...

>> lech walesa, leader of solidarity, is said to be in a government guest house, not under arrest, but dozens of polish advocates and dissidents have been locked up along with some former leaders of the communist government. >> weve made it plain how seriously we would view any interference by them. >> there was concern the soviets were going to invade and that the poles in their drive for self-determination were going to go beyond whatever mental threshold the soviet leadership had. >> at the v...

The course of two days, and during that time, theyve asked the judge several questions. theyve asked him to redefine reasonable doubt, the legal threshold for acquitting a defendant. the jury asked for an updated exhibit list. keep in mind, there are 18 charges and nearly 400 exhibits. its easy to see how a jury could get very confused, but the judge refused that request. so the jury has to sift through mountains of evidence without any index or key connecting key documents to these individual c...

The course of two days and during that time, theyve asked the judge several questions. theyve asked him to redefine reasonable doubt, the legal threshold for acquitting a defendant. the judge obliged that request. he refused another one. the jury asked for an updated exhibit listt. connecting each piece of evidence to the corresponding charge in the indictment. keep in mind, there are 18 charges and nearly 400 exhibits. its easy to see how a jury could get very confused, but the judge refused th...

Neil: the sec has to be careful. they cant give him special treatment, but, of course, the fear is its a special company, its an american iconic name, a lot of jobs, a lot of lives in the balance here. >> and i think the sec is going to take that into account. this looks like a straight 10-b-5 violation. neil: thats what i thought. 10-b-5. >> its about fraud and its about secured funding, and whether he said. the standard for that is not verbal. and naivety of the law is no excuse for crossing, ...

Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building americas largest gig-speed network. this is cnn tonight. im don lemon. its just a few minutes past 11:00 on the east coast. were live with big developments tonight in the mueller investigation. jurors in the trial of paul manafort began their deliberations today. they didnt reach a verdict, but we may be getting some clues to their thinking after they sent a note to the judge with four questions. the most interesti...

Wants to spin it that way but i dont think its indicative of where the jury is headed. >> what about the other questions getting into the nitty-gritty detail of what rick gates testified. two things, they had a question on when a person is required to file a foreign bank disclosure because theres a 51% threshold and we know manafort and his wife held 50%. then theres the question about the definition of shelf companies. whats your read on those two? >> i think these cases are tough for lay peopl...