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>> a retainer is an interesting concept. sometimes it's a flat fee but sometimes it's an amount that's paid due that you have to put in your client trust account and pay yourself as you bill hourly. but there's a lot of rules that relate to retainers. a retainer, you can't just, in many cases, take someone's check or take someone's money and just stuff it into your pocket. just as it is with any business in america, but with lawyers, there are several additional ethical rules. we have to tell our client what we're charging them. ideally, it should be in a written fee agreement. there is a pape...

Source of the funds, sounds like they were, because they are sort of passing it through, you know, the law firm, trying to disguise it, i think, as a legal retainer,ú>áz retainer fee, the where did thevo;n#unds original come from? if they came from, you know, a legitimate source, then, okay -- >>élww say they came from mr. trump's private personal bank account? >> then you probably don't have a separate crime, it still would be in campaign finance land. but if it came -- i don't know where it came from, if it came from a loan that someone didn't disclose with the real purpose of the money, ...

Contributions, because he was giving a personal loan that had nothing to6hg5 do with the camp. it's just a loan that was repaid. this other thing about the retainer agreement that allows a whole bunch of money to sit in a pot that apparently, you know, mt uses to pay off, you know, random people who come up and make claims -- >> harassment paps. >> whatever those are, fortunately, not part of my practice, but apparently, according to him, it's part of his. but what they does is, it moves the president away from the sort of intent to actually violate the campaign finance?g laws. if he's given n...

Empowered to charge paul manafort with the stuff they have charged him with. now, paul manafort has already lost this civil case, it's been dismissed as of last week, but you might remember that the mueller team, bob mueller's prosecutors gave us one really juicy document in their court filings where they were trying to febd off this civil suit from paul manafort. remember, the civil suit is saying that the special counsel's office is operating illegally, they have no authority to go after paul manafort for this stuff. in response, the special counsel's office asserted that, yeah, they did hav...

>> there is no doubt there was a crime we all know was committed. mueller has yet to tell us who he is specifically charging for that crime. we assume it will be the gru and russian intelligence. i think we have to wait to ehim talk there. me me let me go to the other issue that giuliani seemed to dredge up and create problems for the president here. and that's the stormy daniels payment. based on everything we now know that rudy giuliani said -- specifically, essentially speculating about you how it could have impacted the campaign, saying that the president funneled the money via legal fees,...