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Does this filing tonight change what is in effect as we said our lead story, the body of avenatti's documents? >> it's interesting on a couple of fronts, brian, for one thing, the letter obviously reveals a couple of flaws in avenatti's data, but it also perhaps gives us an interesting clue into whether avenatti's information came from. the fact there are a couple of inclusions in this report that aren't allegedly from michael cohen, the new york lawyer, but rather for other michael cohens indicates perhaps that the name was run through some sort of a government terminal and came up with some ...

It's certainly an accumulation of the swamp trump ran against. it's interesting if this was foreign law, it would be illegal under a statute called the foreign corrupt practices act, most likely in this country there's case law that makes it very difficult for prosecutors to allege this sort of pay-to-play conduct as a crime and there is a case in virginia involving mcdonnell and that case came out poorly for the government so it might be very difficult for this to be indicted as criminal conduct. >> guy, just back to avenatti for a second, i know you said there's a certain danger in submittin...

Rip against the president. it's sort of a public relations nightmare. >> still out there trolling the president, one could argue. jeremy, i also note that mueller, rosenstein, sessions, all three remain on the job and the federal payroll tonight. >> they do and i'm sure all of them are wondering when the ax falls on them because as the comey case showed us, president trump doesn't seem to have much restraint when it comes to making bold reckless decisions like this so i think that when all is said and done and you look back ott donald trump's first year in the white house, there is no doubt th...

The lawyers for cohen have opposed avenatti's request to even practice in front of judge wo wood. they've come in and said look, he's on the media, he's poisoning in essence the jury pool, he's submitting false and misleading documents to the court. he couldn't be allowed to practice in the southern district of new york. very aggressive stand. i've only seen it and doing this for 35 years i've only seen that once and maybe twice in extreme circumstances. >> it's usually a courtesy to allow someone to argue a single case. >> that's right. >> robert costa, final question for you. i heard a bunch...

Out last night, did it change how you view this case? and where do you think we're headed here? >> well, despite what -- brian, despite what avenatti was saying earlier in the broadcast, i don't think it's good to file papers with a federal judge, and even be wrong 3, 4, 5% of the time. to make mistakes, which if true, that they've gotten the names wrong, they've gotten amounts wrong, they've gotten transactions wrong. even though the bulk of it may be right, i still don't think that's good for avenatti. i mean, look, i'm not a fan and never have been a fan when i was with the government. and ...