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>> well, there's two things. one, you have campaign finance disclosure laws, so you have the cover-up issue being an issue. you can make contribution issues to a campaign. it can be actual money that's transferring hands, but there is a limit that you have to have. you cannot exceed about a $2,000 limit at that time. and you have to still disclose it. everyone knows where the money is coming from, whether or not there is a politician or a candidate who may have strings on their back and who they are beholden to. so what you have here is the idea of, one, a payment obviously in excess of the ca...

Hush payment that was made to stormy daniels and the agreement done to benefit the campaign? was it the same as if an individual gave $130,000 contribution to a campaign. you can't do that! >> but what about if it was done on behalf of trump's attorney to benefit the campaign, but the campaign itself, in terms of the actual candidate, donald trump and others in the campaign were unaware of it. what would that mean then? >> well, it still would be a problem for the attorney, because, look, the same way you or i could not -- there's a campaign contribution limit. and we are not allowed to write ...

Ruling. while the aggregate limits were still in place. that really didn't matter to him because he was giving his money to groups that support candidates. what the opponents of -- what the proponents of this decision, the supporters of the law say is now people can try to get around the individual contribution limit, by giving a whole bunch of money to other candidates and packs who will then funnel it to candidates. you're getting it around the individual campaign contribution limit. that was the essence of the argument in favor of keeping these laws. the supreme court said all those claims ...