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Apparently allowed a contract with cohen and essential consultants to lapse early in 2018 because canceling it might have caused anger. this is according to reports quoting an unnamed insider. if these claims are proven, would extortion charges be a possibility? >> you know, i see the angle there. i don't think, you know, just the sort of unmitigated fear is enough to get to an extortion charge at this time. now, that's not to say that there aren't many, many facts that we're not aware of. look, i agree. is it quite odd that a company would choose to let a contract of this magnitude lapse and ...

Have not yet seen corroboration for her claim. i don't know sitting here right now whether they have that, but if they do or if -- if other investigators like mueller or other prosecutors have in some other way found corroboration. it is not up to the victim to provide corroboration. a victim of a threat -- it is up to the investigators. so te may have it, they may not. if they do, that is an extraordinary serious charge that could be charged as a state or even potentially federal extortion charge. >> so we should explain to our audience that an attorney for michael cohen, the president's lawy...

Charging denny hastert with any kind of sex crime, but the feds told cnn this does have to do with sex, that allegations against him with regard to the money he took out in chunks to pay to individual a had to do with sex, with a palmale, he kn when he was teacher. with that in mind why would there not be a extortion charge? >> that is a good question and the answer is be, prosecutors have an overwhelming amount of discretion and the discretion is and backing up a little bit, understanding that this apparently from the indictment says in 2010, there was some underlying agreement between denny ...

Fluid on the fire raising hopes in the family, raising expectations that we'll get answers some day. >> and van der sloot is serving a prison sentence for the murder of stephany flores. as i understand it he'll be behind bars for almost three decades before he's brought to the u.s. to face charges against natalee's mom? >> he has 28 years in peru. there is a hold on him when he completes that sentence, he'll be coming to alabama to face another 20 year wire fraud and extortion charge. and i think maybe at that point when he's in an alabama prison he might see the light and come clean. that's m...

These pictures down. it's a little bit -- >> you mentioned the boyfriends. what about those guys the people who posted the pictures the ex-husbands, should they be held liable for their actions? >> now there's a law on the books in california for revenge porn. it's poorly written, because there's a lot of loopholes in it. one are if the woman or the man, it's mostly women, that are the ones that are affected but if the woman or the man take pictures of themselves send it to their significant others and they post that that is not, that doesn't fall under the law. if it's a picture taken by the ...