president simply makes it a ripe issue for him to be deposed. >> depositions would discover everything they would have to do -- they would be publicly out there in a trial, though there's been some dispute about what the state of california laws actually say about those particulars that i'm not well aversed in. depending who says what, it kind of changes the play of stormy daniels and her lawyer. so the president has said, i don't know anything about this, pass it over to cohen, and this is the reality they're dealing with. but they've been on television nonstop. there's been contingency legal arguments put out there depending on what the president says. if the president said, i know nothing about this, there could be defamation. this is what we had from the president yesterday and this is one step forward legally. >> congress will control other republicans.