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Likelihood of charges both under the election code for things like conspiracy to commit election fraud, violation of oath, or conspiracy to violate an oath of office, as well as you are more traditional criminal crimes, entitle 16 of the georgia codes, things like false statements, or forgery in the case of the alleged fake electors. we are still waiting to see whether fani and her team will pursue a rico indictment, which will allow her to encompass all of these crimes, or the ones that relate to the predicate acts under the statute, the predicate crimes, foundational crimes under the statute...

Wanted to see. it's the story of putting a magnifying glass with trained investigators on to something like the trump organization, like donald trump's tax returns. there's a reason he doesn't want them to get their hands on this. i think once they start, are able to look at it with a few already seemingly clear predicate crimes they're going to find a lot more. this is a real threat to trump. >> and the manhattan district attorney's crimes bureau has dealt with some pretty big economic crimes. there's all of the information we've already learned about from the new york attorney general about ...

Money. donald trump paid michael cohen back and called it a legal expense. it was in the a legal expense. how he declared that on his taxes clearly will be one of the things that the da's office wanted to see. it's the story of putting a magnifying glass with trained investigators on to something like the trump organization, like donald trump's tax returns. there's a reason he doesn't want them to get their hands on this. i think once they start, are able to look at it with a few already seemingly clear predicate crimes they're going to find a lot more. this is a real threat to trump. >> and t...

Families, it does make a little bit of sense. rico essentially was a statute passed in 1970 to go after the mob, because mob bosses would insulate themselves by having underlings commit crimes. what rico says is that it's a crime for someone to participate in the affairs of an organization either directly or indirectly through a pattern of racketeering activity. those predicate crimes could be wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, some of the very same kind of crimes we're seeing the southern district of new york look at. could they be building a rico case. i think there's a possibility th...

It's my dad. i'm not in the inaugural committee. i worked at trump org but it's not my money specifically. what is the response to that defense? >> just being part of the association does not mean you're guilty of the crime. there has to be and an agreement that the group will commit crimes even if you individually are not part of those criminal activities. if you agree that part of the group will commit at least two of the predicate crimes that are on the rico list, then that could be sufficient for a risk coconspiracy. you're right, not just mere association but association for the purpose o...