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There's a confirmation process underway. i do want to ask judge andrew napolitano here before i go to others in the cue. we talked about george w. bush nominating judge roberts and sam alito. president obama did have his mark on the court with justice sotomayor and kagan. it's not that he didn't have a chance to have a legacy of supreme court justices. >> the merrick garland nomination, which will unfortunately be relegated to a foot note, was captivating. he was truly the most conservative nominated by a democratic president since robert jackson, nominated his own attorney general. but we kno...

That the president did reimburse and pay his long-term lawyer michael cohen more than $100,000, perhaps reimbursing him for the hush money paid to stormy daniels. what are the legal implications of that? >> they are significant. the general -- and then there are specific implications. on a general level, does anyone tell the truth. the reality is that we heard the president speak to this issue. we heard the president deny the issue. we heard cohen speak to the issue and heard him deny it. it is a further basis for -- if you want to talk about stormy daniels for him not sitting for any depositi...

Frustrated, as well. >> if you were giving someone counsel on how to -- >> it has nothing to do with what is happening to him. you might say that should also get attention but doesn't change the math of what he is facing and how he is handling it. >> i disagree. >> tell me how i'm wrong. how am i wrong that speculation about the democrats and the dossier is irrelevant to what the president is doing? >> this is all part of this investigation which is they show no type of coordination -- >> it's not over. >> it's been a year. >> people caught up in doing bad things. >> they went to the court wit...

Could have -- cough orted with others. and raj joins us. to the comey memos republicans were pressing the justice department to release and is there anything in the memos that the president disputes? >> well, jake, thanks for having me on. i will say right out of the gate when it comes to the memos, in one of them james comey put in a foot note that these should be marked secret. that is a level of classification that involves -- you need a security clearance to now he sought it fit to give memos to a friend and have the contents read out to the new york times. the fact that he arankd for the ...

The e.c. defendant and trump want to arbitrate this case. but they got to actually ask for it first. and technically speaking, they haven't asked for arbitration yet. so avenatti is now allowed yet to ask for discovery. so it is a technical denial of the motion, not on the merits, they will absolutely rebring this motion once the e.c. defendants asked for arbitration and i promise you, they will ask for arbitration. >> you have the president's team saying this is an order without merit and michael avenatti disputing. >> that when is this likely to happen? what kind of timetable are we looking ...