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Guiliani used to run. what are the legal consequences of what giuliani has now admitted? >> well, the legal liability now for the potential campaign finance violation shifts a little bit from what we thought was michael cohen making an excessive campaign donation by paying off stormy daniels 11 days before the election, now it goes over to donald trump who is allowed to give his campaign as much money as he wants but he must disclose what he gave. and so by saying that i knew about it and i repa...

Three on a phone, those allow you to listen to -- view and listen to content. a pen register is not a warrant, it only has a much lower standard, you dont need probable cause to get it. >> okay. >> it is a kind of a court order, in the sense that a magistrate judge signs off on it, but its a very low threshold and all youre getting is the numbers going in and out of the phone, the time and duration of the calls. no content. >> jim, do you agree with this, this is something that is a low tle thre...

E-mail or a title three on a phone. those allow you to listen and view to con tent. a pen register is not warrant. it has a much lower standard. you dont need probable cause to get it. it is kind of a court order in a since a magistrate judge signs off. all youre getting is the number going in and out of phone, the time and duration of the calls. thats it. no content. >> jim, do you agree with that? >> absolutely. >> this is a low threshold and happens commonly. the person who is the subject doe...

Layperson. how did you see it as lawyers? >> this is rudy giuliani statement. whats the value of what your lawyer says on tv. >> he says hes speaking on the presidents behalf. >> it would definitely be something you would have to like if youre trying to get these admitted in court you would have to show hes agenting as his agent. >> you cant confess on somebody elses behalf ? >> no. >> he goes through lawyers. the next lawyer might have an entirely different story. >> totally different crime. >>...

Stormtroopers and describing donald trumps son-in-law as disclosure. >> jim acosta, at the white house as always. beyond what is apparently an abject lie told by the president and his spokesperson. laura coates, from a legal perspective, why is it important that the president reimbursed for this payment? >> because you have campaign finance laws that have two prongs. one is for transparency, that you know where the money is coming from, and also to ensure there is a threshold of a limited amount...

>> does it make sense to say in terms of numbers here, the president is a rich man, he had $100 million that he gave to the campaign. no campaign funds were use. these are the numbers that go back and forth that make $130,000 seem like chump change. would it be normal for a lawyer to apprise his clients that hey, i had made this payment, you should be aware. at what point would that be done or just depends on the lawyer and the client? >> again, it depends on what the arrangement here is. if the...

Very clear with all of our viewers on our legal terms. joining me, lawrence tribe, constitutional professor at harvard law school. hes been writing about the threshold the fbi could have to meet to get a wiretap on michael cohen. mr. tribe, can you please expand here on this feet? what tweet? >> my view is based really not only on recent events but on the underlying supreme court decision that the power of the government under the fourth amendment leading to title 3 wiretaps. i was actually cler...

Michael cohen, custom is the pen register. that is one of the least intrusive forms of surveillance. all it does is really records calls coming in to a certain phone and calls going out in realtime. so it is like a real time toll analysis. prosecutors can get historical toll analysis from a phone company but if they want to get things happening as they happen they have to get a pen register. it requires an application to a magistrate judge. it is not a probable cause threshold, though. its somet...

Meanwhile, californias democratic governor jerry brown getting testy when asked about the remarks on the migrant caravan at the states border. the vice president said open border advocates were exploiting the migrants in the caravan. >> the vice president said the border is a problem in that particular area for the whole country. >> i think pence is a problem for the whole country. >> homeland security chair mike mccall wants to raise the threshold for those psyching asylum in the u.s. >> the bi...

Words. once they say that, theyre allowed under current law to stay in the united states. thats why congress needs to act. >> what do you think about that? raising the threshold for asylum. >> i agree. the intend of this migrant caravan was to bring awareness to this trip, right? what it has brought awareness to is the loop holes in the border, whether its catch and release and how the folks released come back for hearing dates. the asylum claim is very broad. most of these people are allowed to...