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The investigation. Is that right . Thats correct. And you have a citation . Page seven, volume two. Thank you. One of these witnesses was michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer, who ultimately pled guilty to Campaign Violations based on secret hush money payments to two women the president knew and also to lying to congress about the hope for a 1 billion trump tower deal. After the fbi searched cohens home, the president called him up personally, he said to check in, and told him to, quote, hang in there and stay strong. Is that right . Do you remember finding that . If its in the repo...

Environmental laws that congress passed that gave the executive a kind of broad and sweeping mandate to protect public health. >> okay. finally, i know you're waiting for this one, presidential immunity. what are we waiting for on that? >> yes. so we are waiting to see whether donald trump can at some point be tried for crimes relating to january 6th or whether he is totally immune from prosecution for all actions that he took while in office. and i will just add there is a similar and related case that will decide whether something like 350 january 6th defendants, including donald trump, will...

This week, the supreme court's conservative majority seems skeptical of prosecutors using obstruction statute to charge hundreds of january sixth reuters. it is the same statue using donald trump's federal election interference case. according to the new york times, even of the court tosses of the use of the law against trump supporters are broken of the capital, it does not mean the course of mr. trump's own case could be greatly altered. charles coleman is still with us. >> charles, can you make that make sense for us? if the supreme court rules that the use of obstruction law was for rioter...

At least two dozen Jan. 6 defendants are seeking to delay their cases until the Supreme Court decides whether an obstruction charge used to prosecute scores of rioters was legitimately applied by the Justice Department, court filings show. Some defendants are seeking pauses in their upcoming trials or sentencing hearings. Others already sentenced are hoping…

Remember, that was initially scheduled and still technical ily on the books scheduled for march 4th. so the real issue is to keep the eye on when that stay will lift. there's substance of the obstruction charge. one of the charges, one of the four charges that donald trump faces in washington, d.c. and there in a separate case, donald trump is not a defendant a n that case, but the legal issue is the same, which is what does the obstruction statute require the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. that case actually could be quite interesting because if i were a prosecutor, that's whe...