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Emoluments clause from any king, prince, or foreign state. if this were a meeting of the governors of the united states, there would be no emoluments clause problem. the purpose of the emoluments clause is to keep the president of the united states of america from profiting off of foreign money. here we go again, not on the campaign, but in some event or entity that he controls or is running. he has bought himself an enormous headache with the choice of this. this is about as direct and profound a violation of the emoluments clause as one could create. >> you know, he's right again. that's fox...

Could help explain why we're seeing that behavior. what's criminal about that? well, you've got an emoluments clause problem. if money is flowing either during or after the campaign because of something that developed during the campaign that needed to be handled, you've got an emoluments clause problem. you could have foreign corrupt practices act. if the president knew a sham corporation, a delaware corporation had been set up for a fictitious purpose to handle payments to a porn star and he knew about that, he's an accessory after the fact or he's a coconspirator with cohen in bank fraud an...

You're not missing anything, that you're indicting the crimes that need to be dealt with. so this is far from over. but i think the detailed factual recitation is fascinating. not only do we have criminal elements being looked at here and clearly a lot of this has 22nd whether or not there might be fraud or some sort of foreign bank misdealing. it also raises questions about whether the president has an emoluments clause problem. about accepting renewsroom administration from a foreign government while in office. there is at least one private suit that has been brought in. and many of the othe...