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Sanctioned extortion every day when they aspirin out a complaint, say to a prospective defendant if we don't settle this by tomorrow i'm filing this document in court. you're not saying hey i'm going ruin you. you're not going to say i'll announce to the world you're a bad person. you're instead saying i have a legal right to file a lawsuit and i'll do that unless we settle. that's allowed. if michael avenatti did those minor different things -- he didn't do that. he would have been immunized from this extortion charge. instead it's alleged he didn't draft up a complaint. he came to any key, t...

Violated conduct. in december ami signed the agreement in exchange for providing information in its role in a payment to play boy model, karen mcdougal, who claims she had an affair with trump prior to his presidency, which trump denies. they stipulated ami should commit no crime whatsoever and should ami commit any crime consent to the date of signing this mounted a agreement, they shall photographer be subject to prosecution. glen, your area here. it seems at minimum it should say you don't commit anymore crimes. i mean, if they're involved in extortion and/or blackmail here, i would think t...

>> that's probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. >> that's all right. well, first off, yes, it looks like there's possibly an extortion charge. but it's complicated by the agreement. the agreement says not only can you not commit any other crimes but guess what, when we ask you questions, you have to answer them. and when we ask you for documents, you have to give them. when we tell you to come to a meeting, you have to be there. and if this whole thing blows up, everything you told us is still going to be admissible. they're in a big heap of trouble at ami with this agreement...

With us for a hot second while we talk about this story. dual question for you. could you have charged this case for extortion, blackmail against ami, absent the cooperation agreement, in the clear and do you see a charge in light of the cooperation agreement? >> that's probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. >> first it looks like there's possibly an extortion charge, but it's complicated by the agreement which says not only can you not commit any other crimes, but when we ask you questions, you have to answer them. and when we ask you for documents, you have to give them. whe...

Agreement, in the clear and do you see a charge in light of the cooperation agreement. >> that's probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. first it looks like there's possibly an extortion charge, but it's complicated by the agreement which says not only can you not commit any other crimes, but when we ask you questions, you have to answer them. and when we ask you for documents, you have to give them. when we tell you to come to a meeting, you have to be there. and if this whole thing blows up, everything you told us is still going to be admissible. they're in a big heap of trou...