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Him have repeatedly lied about over and over again. once again, we don't know about collusion, but some may be tempted to say where there's smock, there's fire. it's an old saying. joining us now is cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta. so jim, what are you learning about where the president's head is right now about these smocking payments? >> it's pretty smocky over here at the white house tonight. i did talk to a source close to the president who said earlier this evening that the president has expressed concern that he could be impeached over some of these issues that you just ta...

Remedy for bribery, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors. it speaks for itself. we have to look at what robert mueller delivers to us, the american people will review it, but there's every reason for the president to be very concerned about what continues to come out of this investigation as it relates to him, his legal jeopardy, and the potential for things to get worse for him. >> what is the difference between an impeachable offense and one that justifies an impeachment? are there crimes a president can commit that should be overlooked? >> no, of course not. no one is above the law, and i ...

Now, where things go from here, i talked to other sources close to the white house, one source says they do believe there are advisers inside the white house that the one item that could stick with this president are these alleged campaign finance violations. these campaign financial crimes that have been alleged in the michael cohen case. but at this point they don't believe inside the white house that it's going to be enough to get a conviction in the senate and a removal from office vote in the senate. might be enough in a democratic house, but they don't think it will trigger the bipartisa...

Doesn't make it a campaign contribution. it's legal and allowed. >> carrie, how do you see this? >> i think, anderson, that the campaign finance part of it and the payments to the women is somewhat of a distraction from the big issue with the coordination of rush government and russian government surrogates. if we take the big special counsel investigation, i understand that the southern district of new york has a responsibility to enforce the law, and they obviously believe that they have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding on the merits of a campaign finance case. and so i think it's possi...

If the expenditure can be reasonably be made irrespective of the campaign, and there's a lot of reasons why you would want these women to keep these stories private. there are many, many reasons outside of politics you would do that, and the fec is clear it's not a campaign contribution. >> it's just an incredible coincidence the money happened to change hands just on the eve of the election? >> no. listen, that's a good point, but that part is not coincidental because the reason there was an impetus for them to come forward was the fact that donald trump was achieving fame even though he was ...