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And planned it was designed to keep this information from the american voting public. he didn't care about -- he said publicly, as you point out, i can get away with anything. so what does he care if anybody finds out about him having affairs. he's not embarrassed about that. and it is not a crime to have an affair. but it is a crime when you have develop a scheme with a company, with your fixer, and with -- use your own corporation, the trump corporation and you open shell accounts and you devise what sounds more like a fraud scheme than a campaign -- the way we think of campaign finance viol...

And they are sort of already chipping away at possible defenses if not knocking them out altogether for example by having ami and michael cohen saying this is for the purpose of influencing the campaign which i think we coffin ferred any way. they can prove that now in court. and so it takes away that defense. >> jim, it is great to have you on. we haven't had you on for a while and so i'm going to exploit you now because it seems the big picture -- i watch the power of new york. it helps hillary and the mets and yankees and everybody from new york gets more coverage than they deserve, even th...

60 minutes whether or not cambridge analytica was the source of important data for the operations that he pulled off for the trump campaign in 2016. let's just listen to what brad parscale said. >> mr. trump, one, cambridge analytica said it was key to the victory. but parscale insists he never used psycho graphics. he said it doesn't work. so, you didn't use it because you didn't think it really worked, as opposed to you didn't use it because you thought it was wrong, that it's manipulative or sinister or something? >> i don't believe it's sinister. >> no? okay. you just don't think it work...

Because you lose by being anti-trump, you lose by being pro-trump. it's looking like there is going to be a blue wave and they're not sure how to ride this one out as they are heading into mid terms. >> jim, what do you think about that? >> not only do a play i media columnist on television, but i believe it matters a lot, the media environment right now. there is an entire media eco system in which bob mueller should go, that there is a deep state plot, that this is all very suspect and needs to end. so, there's no way that -- with that environment there is going to be any pressure on the hou...

Produce. that is a normal thing that you would think about. and i think his team has failed in so many ways. not just in the stormy daniels case, but clearly in the case -- the defamation case. they have not done a good job. the court there was very clear in saying he is not immune from lawsuit and i would take that a step further and say that their reasoning is not just that he is not immune from a civil lawsuit, but i would say the same is true for a criminal case. and that it could support his being indicted if evidence is found that he has been involved in the criminal acts of the russians...