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>> let's say i just made you justice mcwade. could you make an argument that the american public has any kind of inherent or legitimate right to see the president's finances? or has it become just a defacto part of american life over the last few presidential cycles that our candidates have been willing to share them publicly? >> yeah, you know, as a matter of public policy, i think the american people like to see presidential tax returns. but courts are in the business of deciding laws. they decide whether something is required by statute or whether there's a constitutional protection there. ...

Mike schmidt in response to mike's article as barbara said that i wasn't working for the ukrainians, i was working for trump. that kind of thing is going to be held up against what they have on tape if they have it, what they have from human sources. and as is usually the case when rudy opens his mouth, he may have defended himself a fara charge but certainly threw trump under the bus saying i was working at the direction of president of the united states. that's a problem. >> of course frank, it also means we can get ready for more charges of spying, no doubt. hey, phil, i want to play for yo...

Have been spawned now here just less than a month since that whistleblower filed his complaint. >> mike schmidt, "new york times," thank you so much for calling in on a friday night. we appreciate it. for our lead off discussion on a friday night, phil rucker, pulitzer prize winner for the "washington post," and veteran prosecutor and u.s. attorney barbara mcwade. due to hometown advantage, barbara you get to go first. how sensitive a business is it for the southern district of new york, the justice department's office in new york often called the sovereign district of new york because of thei...

>> brian, we've already put a man on the moon. >> a dozen of them. >> but this gets -- yeah. this gets to the president's space force priority which is something he's very proud of and likes to talk about and is a big hit at the rallies. but, you know, everybody -- any student of american history or anybody who lived through that period of america know that is we put a man on the moon. >> 12 of them. total of 24 feet walking around the moon. it was unbelievable. i remember it. just thought we could use that at the end of our first segment on a long friday night after a long weekend. our thanks...

The role of surveillance in this case, in this story, and very possibly in the life and devices of one rudy giuliani? >> well, as barbara alluded to, you adopt have a u.s. attorney's office going after a former attorney and their former boss without them having solid predication to do so. when i read the indictment on rudy's two aso he shall t i can'ts, i see a level of details, quotes, attributions to the foreign national number one, times, places, filings that seem to indicate there might be court authorized wiretaps in this case. and if that's the case, then it's possible that rudy giuliani...