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Hide the amount of money from the public with respect to a campaign. that is a difference in this case. because trump according to cohen in any case has said that he is clearly trying to utilize that money for the purpose of the campaign. so that is a really key issue because for campaign finance law, for criminal violations, there has to be a knowing and willful violation of the campaign finance law. and additionally, there are some facts that are very different and were different for the jury because while it is true that they got the money from bunny mellon, much of that money was used on t...

Week. and it would seem like at least some republicans would want to cover their bets here in case things go sour for them in a way pa that people are not anticipating. >> and we'll spend time talking about jeff sessions and his recelationship to president tru. but i want to get your perspective. jeff settles was treff settles s jeff settles was tessions was t endorse president trump. and i'm truck by thstruck by th forth this week. we sae saw tw the tweets and th statement from the attorney general. they are fighting it out publicly publicly. and according to the report, the two met he at the...

For political gain this way so directly. at least create a nonprofit or super pac to kind of route it through and clean it up. it is remarkable. but it is telling that the na "national enquirer" in both cases is involved. the john edwards case was exposed by the "national enquirer" and now they are stepping into hide these stories in what mr. cohen says in court is to believed. >> and picking up off of that going back to john edwards, jury finds him not guilty on one count and the rest of them they can't come to an agreement, how analogous is the situation legally? >> i think legally the compa...

They are not done -- it is true that a criminal standard is a fact democrat fact factual one. so the question is whether the facts in the case itself show that it meets the criminal sdar standard. we know the amount of money meets the criminal standard, but we don't know whether it was willing and willful. >> and i'll put up a full screen here. there you see don mcgahn of course who was a trump attorney,

How codo you react to that? it struck me as strange. >> yeah, i think it is less talking to jeff sessions and more talking down to jeff sessions. and again, this gets to the idea that president trump doesn't want to actually have this confrontation, this personal confrontation with him. he wants to leave jeff sessions be leaguered i believe he called him with no other option but to resign. if that is the case, if it is not president trump who fires jeff sessions, that is less of a red flag to joyce's point for bob mealler when it coueller an that president trump would prefer because it would b...