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>> i u do. i'm not at liberty to disclose that this morning. >> let's bring in legal analyst danny sovalos. pretty startling allegations. what does this mean for the president of the united states? >> the important thing to understand is that stormy daniels isn't looking for money damag damages. she's not looking for dollars. instead she's asking for declaratory judgment. but this creates some very real jeopardy for the president. first, you have to get around whether the president can even be. sued civilly in state court. that's an immunity issue that will surely raise the speck tor of the jo...

Ranging from some kind of civil litigation to a declaratory judgment that session statements aren't covered by privilege to holding him in contempt. that's where you can see this play out. those only work, though, if you have the republicans on the intelligence committee just as invested in having sessions answer the questions, produce the requested material as the democrats clearly already are. >> you know, paul, one of the issues here we'll delve into, did sessions recuse himself from the russia investigation after he said he did. my question to you is recusal in this case an actual legal th...

Ahead of tomorrow night's debate in south carolina, ted cruz stepping up attacks on donald trump accusing him of, quote, embodying new york values and saying the front-runner appears to be rattled by his rise. this afternoon, trump called in to msnbc's thomas roberts' show and responded by once again hammering the issue of his rival's canadian birth. >> my problem is that he has to get this cleared up. he can go for declaratory judgment. go in early to court. how can you vote for somebody that -- where there's question. i'm not saying right or wrong. i'm saying there's big question and you can...

Interpretations, and that was always what i felt, when i would hear about that, i always hear that you had to be born on the land and not in canada. and cruz was a citizen and actually gave up the citizenship 15, 16 months ago. >> he was a canadian citizen, he gave that up, probably 14, 15 months ago, the problem is you have a cloud over ted's head and that's a big problem, and i don't know how you can solve it other than getting a declaratory judgment, because the democrats have already stated that agoring to bring a lawsuit. >> rand paul said that since he's on the opening debate, before the...

>> reporter: good morning. there is a big battle for the top prize in iowa and now trump has gone from raising what he said were other people's questions about cruz's citizenship to out and out declaring that cruz isn't a natural born citizen. it's succeeded in raising questions in some voters' minds. so no surprise that trump isn't letting up on this. take a listen to what he told his crowd at the rally in iowa. >> you can't have a person running for office even though ted is very glib and he goes out and he says i'm a natural born citizen, but the point is you're not. you got to get declarat...