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Prosecutors don't like to bring criminal cases against corporations. corporations can do anything. they are pieces of paper. only human beings can do things. it is -- it is legally possible to file criminal charges against a corporation. but it is rarely done because a lot of the purposes of criminal law, deterrence, punishment, retribution, they can't really be effective against a corporation which has no human existence. also, you know, what does it mean that a corporation commits a crime if an individual is not charged. yes, it is legally possible. but it is rarely done. it is almost never ...

A threatening letter to himself and orchestrated this attack. back to you. >> nick, thank you for that. another trump cabinet secretary is in trouble, this time alex acosta. he was a federal prosecutor 11 years ago when the justice department reached a plea deal with jeffrey epstein, a palm beach billionaire accused of sexually abusing as many as 36 underage girls in a sex ring. on thursday a federal judge in south florida ruled that acosta and the justice department broke the law by not discussing the plea deal with victims as required. >> in november "the miami herald" reported that epstei...

The hoard -- >> this is -- >> mike, let juliet go. >> this is a guy working for himself. >> i think all the president has left is the tweets. they are what they are. he doesn't have much of a legal defense. people are indicted, people are making plea arrangements with mueller. you have the whole mike cohen thing which is unfolding in ways that have got to be terrifying for trump, not just on the stormy daniels front but on the russian front. so in some ways this is all he's got left, and we should just tweet it as sort of the last lying statements of someone whose legal strategy is clearly unk...

By trump's team to suggest that they could not have the power to do so. and that stall is a problem for an investigation. >> jeffrey toobin thinks that president trump will ultimately take the fifth. what do you think about that? >> i mean i would advise him to if i were her lawyer given how he responds to questions, and just picking up on what michael said, that would be unfortunate. we tend to view the mueller investigation as solely a criminal investigation, that this is going to happen in court. but actually, mueller's mandate is different. it is to provide a report that sort of describes ...

About what happened. mueller probably knows the answer to a lot of those questions. and just going back to the main point, his mandate is not necessarily the number of indictments he can get, not necessarily the number of pleads he can get. the mandate is what happened. you know, did a foreign power, collude, conspire, you know, whatever, with the trump campaign? and that, to me, you know, it's pretty essential to find that out now and let the plea arrangements and indictments run their course, of course. but the story line has to be for our own democracy at this stage and i think mueller prob...