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Foundation with how the process worked for the russia investigation, but robert, let me get you into this and i want to play something before i let you respond to what we heard from paris there that now attorney general jeff sessions told our reporters about this back in i think it was in october of 2016. >> the fundamental thing is, you cannot be secretary of state of the united states of america and use that position to ex- tort or to seek contributions to your private foundation. wait a minut...

Drilling for it. i mean, obviously deep water horizon was a terrific and tragic exception to that but the fact of the matter is, were going to have drilling in offshore places, i know both china and saudi arabia have approached the u.s. about drilling in our waters. and i would much rather have a u.s. company. steve: sure. >> drill. because they are subject to u.s. tort and as long as we have tort lawyers in this country, i think thats better than any regulation. and the fact that bp cost almost...

Both cases are filed in the district of columbia, the federal district court, the trial level courts, one would expect to see the civil case potentially reassigned to the same judge who has the criminal case so that they can be disposed of together. >> apparently we have some breaking news tonight. trumps toernls have sent steve bannon a cease and desist letter saying that the letter sent wednesday night demands that he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his famil...

Case. >> extremely unlikely and given the local rules in this court, both cases are filed in the district of columbia, the federal district court, the trial level courts, one would expect to see the civil case potentially reassigned to the same judge who has the criminal case so that they can be disposed of together. >> apparently we have some breaking news tonight. trumps toernls have sent steve bannon a cease and desist letter saying that the letter sent wednesday night demands that he refrain...

Sword for the u.s. president, so he attended but had he not attended would he have received just as much criticism? >> absolutely. theres no doubt that to not attend the opening of a civil rights museum of this kind in this location would be tremendously difficult. arguably he did the best thing he could do which was to keep his visit very short, very briefly and tort most part to stick to the script. the timing is difficult given that were right up against this election which is very deeply con...

Lawsuit for her because she has in fact been harmed. shes been harmed by threats, by loss of some of her business, emotionally she has been harmed, but again her reputation matters. so we were in court today, president trump through his lawyers argued that he cannot be sued that he is president of the united states that he has immunity he cant be sued in state court we argued jones v clinton and president clinton said he was immune and the united states supreme court said no man is above the law...

>> her reputation matters. truth matters. accountability matters. she has been harmed. she has been harmed by threats. by loss of some of her business. emotionally. president trump, through his lawyers, argued he cannot be sued. hes president of the united states, with immunity. we argued jones versus clinton. when paula jones sued president clinton, and president clinton said that he was immune from a lawsuit, the united states supreme court said no man is above a law, including the president o...

To be protected from predators. first week in law school, my first class in law school at the university of michigan was on the tort of assault, which is the intentional touching, unwanted, unwelcome, offensive, or even the implied touching, the act of going forward. so its an old standard. and somehow it got lost from broadcast. we learned years ago that whenever we covered a domestic abuse story on the "nightly news" and public affairs show i did, the pbs affiliate, every time we covered it, w...

There, john? >> yeah. i dont know. i think thats pretty optimistic for the democrat. it may be drawing closer, but polls here have not been very accurate. it would be a real surprise still for me for him to be that close. but, you know, its a single race election. turn out has been historically low in these things. >> not now. do you think this -- i would think this would juice the electric tort in a lot of ways. i want to get back to susan. this is going to get -- i just looked at the numbers t...

>> was this a democratic win last night or a president trump loss or i guess some combination thereof? >> ill go with option c, anderson. i do think it was a combination thereof. clearly it was a democratic win to what van was talking about. there just was a surge of democratic voters who showed up at the polls. and its very clear why they showed up at the polls, in response to president trump. i mean, this is what it looks like when the so-called resistance goes to the ballot box. and there was...