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With federal prosecutors in new york city in the michael cohen case where the "national enquirer" was shown to be a participant to fraud the voters in the last presidential campaign by hiding donald trump's affairs with women. and "national enquirer" was part of that. here they are operating under this agreement that includes a pledge to be very good boys and then you see john fine, these letters, these e-mails they are putting this in writing. they are putting these things in writing while in the cooperation agreement with federal investigators. >> first of all, i agree with rebecca state cri...

Enquirer" sent this story to the biggest, toughest lawyer. i thought attorney john fine was at risk of getting disbarred, everything. what do you see in this legally? >> first of all, inn the federal crimes are actually harder to prove than the state crimes because the federal crimes require that there actually be a wrongful threatening of somebody in order to gain property and the state crimes actually only require oc require. that's just a class a misdemeanor. it's not a very serious state crime but it's a crime and his cooperation agreement with the southern district of new york doesn't say...

Counsel for the "national enquirer" sent this story to the biggest, toughest lawyer. i thought attorney john fine was at risk of getting disbarred, everything. what do you see in this legally? >> first of all, inn the federal crimes are actually harder to prove than the state crimes because the federal crimes require that there actually be a wrongful threatening of somebody in order to gain property and the state crimes actually only require. that's just a class a misdemeanor. it's not a very serious state crime but it's a crime and his cooperation agreement with the southern district of new y...

York city in the michael cohen case where the "national enquirer" was schenn to hown to participant to fraud the voters in the last presidential campaign by hiding donald trump's affairs with women. and "national enquirer" was part of that. here they are operating under this agreement that includes a pledge to be very good boys and then you see john fine, these letters, these e-mails they are putting this in writing. they are putting these things in writing while in the cooperation agreement with federal investigators. >> first of all, i agree with rebecca state crime is probably easier to pro...

Going to be facing a new candidate and i think look, i think o'rourke has established tonight that he can stand head-to-head with president trump and if he announces he'll run by the end of this month, democrats should be happy. >> jason johnson, thank you for joining us tonight. john, thank you. and most especially congressman david price, one of the confer on this committee. thank you for joining us and bringing us the news what's in this deal. a final question congressman, do you expect this deal to pass the house of representatives and the senate? >> yes, i do. it's of course not everythin...