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She put money down to buy these condos and would also receive a certain percentage from parties that would take place in the meeting rooms, but the trump folks are saying there was a condition in a clause in that contract which said they could change that if they wanted to. and that's what they did. and she's saying, no, that's not the case? >> well, the whole thing about this contract clause is the biggest red hair iing in this case. this is a fraud case. there's no contract claim in the case. if you come to me and say i want to buy a red car because red is your favorite color and i say, sure...

And they knew they were never going to give you a red car, that's fraud. >> so you're saying there was no contract clause? there were no conditions at all? >> no, that's not what i'm saying. there was a contract clause, but what i'm saying if you know when you sign the contract, the fact that later on a clause allows him to take it away doesn't matter because he committed fraud when he had you sign the contract? is understand that? >> she apparently, or at least trump is saying and testified, that she was about to walk the other way. and said, wait a minute, i really don't want there to be a c...

Cut off relationships with law abiding entities. they are following the law it is just that they don't like their chosen business. you have the power of government pressuring them. is it even legal? >> the answer to the word is no. there are some well-known and not so well-known to prohibit this. one of the clauses is a contract clause. it basically says state governments or city or municipal governments that are formed in the state cannot interfere with contracts that are freely entered into that were lawful at the time they were made. because it is still lawful for gun manufacturers to manuf...

Beliefs see the world and see us. >> hard to argue with that. time warner cable decided it will not carry it as i said, and impossible for us to say if it was a political or commercial consideration but they may have exercised a contract clause allowing them to say you change the programming significantly so we don't have to worry it. >>gregg: from what i read, al gore could make up to $100 million on this. no wonder he is happy. >>jonathan: pretty happy guy. he was a co-founder of current tv and it has been sold as we mentioned for something like $500 million and al gore's portion of that and...

To an automaker and with bankruptcy that person goes into court and says, look, my debt exceeds my ability to pay, and, so i need to have some or all of my debt discharged. so it is different. >>neil: if we had a -- allowed g.m. to file bankruptcy, rather than having thesthe tab for the process, right? >>guest: correct. president until the reason unions are scared, obviously, is it would, they say, allow governors to just make null and void contracts with state workers. that are legitimate. >>guest: i understand that concern and that is part of what triggers the constitutional question whether...