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Abuse them. >> all right, rick santorum, kirsten powers, shan lu, appreciate it. breaking news, another federal investigation swirling the trump administration, focusing on tens of millions of dollars raised during the inauguration. whether big donors thought they were buying influence instead. sometimes the best time is time you make for yourself. aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion improves skin hydration in just 1 day. and for twice the moisture, try the body wash, too. aveeno® naturally beautiful results®

And so, for example, you take the edwards case. the fec, when they looked at the edwards case, did not have any charges brought against edwards. now, the district -- the local attorneys did. they brought it -- federal attorney did, but the fec didn't. so i think you can actually look at that case and say, you know what, i don't have to disclose this because the fec said it's not a problem. >> that's exactly backwards. that is exactly backwards. i mean, people love to try to bring up the edwards case. he was indict and had went to trial and won. this isn't a question of legally not being charge...

>> well, first of all, it eliminates the whole argument that the reason for this payment was to spare melania trump embarrassment because, according to prosecutors and according to cohen and apparently according to pecker, the reason for this meeting was to talk about how the "national enquirer" was going to pay women to keep them quiet during the campaign. melania had nothing to do with it. and the point -- and that also has legal implications because paying money to benefit a campaign has reporting requirements, dollar amount requirements, and thus when you violate them, as michael cohen adm...

Involved here. the illegality is not the contribution, the illegality is not reporting it. i'm not condoning it and don't suggest that i am. >> and what you keep saying is his problem is he keeps lying and his explanations about it. isn't the reason he's lying because he did something bad in the first place? if he did nothing wrong, why doesn't he tell a straightforward version of the truth? >> he did something bad in having an affair with a porn star, i agree with you, that's horrible. >> shan? >> i think it's important to differentiate here. it's not a political question. it's a legal questi...

Cordero, shan wu, and john avlon. what does that mean, shan? never took control of the justice department? >> it's really amazing hearing him saying that. i think he means that sessions has done things that he doesn't like, most notably recusing himself from the russia investigation. and frankly, when you hear him talk like that, one is surprised that he hasn't already fired sessions. i mean, there's some sort of countervailing measure going on where he's not doing that, by it's really stunning to hear a president say that about his attorney general, without firing him. >> it's really interest...