ford. it investigated hill s investigation of sexual harassment against clarence thomas and should investigate this. is it their job or the committee s job? there is confusion about what the fbi does here. the fbi is not conducting a criminal investigation. even if this happened yesterday, if there were a crime it would be state jurisdiction. the fbi would not have that job. the fbi is just helping the senate conduct a background investigation with information about someone. making making determinations about the credibility but not trying to solve crimes. not conducting forensic investigations in a crime. they present that information to the committee. in the kavanaugh case there is no phrenics. forennics. this is 35 years ago.
would know how this works, fact check, the fbi can investigate doctor ford s allegations as part of its background investigation. that is their job. to say otherwise is false. investigated anita hill s accusations against clarence thomas and should investigate this too. it is their job or the committee s job? there is confusion what the fbi does. the fbi is not conducting a criminal investigation. even if this happened yesterday they would be conducting a, investigation. of this were a crime it would be under state jurisdiction. the fbi wouldn t have that job. this kind of function, the fbi is just helping the senate conduct a background investigation, collecting all the information about someone, maybe making determinations about the credibility of information about them but they are not trying to solve crimes, not conducting investigations like you would with a crime. they present that information to the committee. in this case there is no forensic, there s 35 years ago. the only s
has control over federal crimes. so if there is a deal and, by the way, we don t know whether prosecutors want to offer a deal. they seem to have plenty of information that they possibly could bring charges against michael cohen and not be in a place where they want a cooperati cooperation agreement of michael cohen. the question for michael cohen is what does that solve for you as far as state crimes? a lot of things we are talking about, this is a tax medallion alleged financial crimes under investigation. there is also a state jurisdiction in new york and so the question is whether or not this resolves all of his problems. it doesn t appear it would. so he can get pardoned from a federal crimes standpoint and state crimes a problem for him. sarah, a thing what stood out in the interview is the way michael cohen very clearly broke with the president when it comes to the russia investigation. even using talking about witch hunt and the president
mentioned, the status of the dreamers, the folks brought to this country by their parents years ago have been living here. the senate working on some legislation. let me ask you from your standpoint to get permanent legal protection for the dreamers enshrined in law, are you asking for concessions in return and what are those concessions? i think the house bill that s got the most traction is bob goodlatte s bill and i m taking a look at that. that spans a large cross section of republicans. we re hoping that some democrats will see that as the vehicle that will move in the house. the senate s working on a different path. i m pushing to make sure the federal law which is the only body of law on immigration states don t have state jurisdiction over immigration, that states are clearly premted in their actions related to immigration by federal statute. it does good things, like, you
believe investigating some mearths around paul manafort. if necessary, that could expand to other crimes as well. i don t know that there would be state jurisdiction over everything that s going on, but certainly it parallels many things. most states have a computer fraud and abuse statute, for example, if that becomes one of the crimes. so if they have to shift gears and move into the state realm to avoid a pardon scenario, i think robert mueller is seeing those chess moves on the board. let me ask you about one other part of the flynn reporting, at least around this deal that i just don t i get as a matter of drama, but i don t get as a matter of law. a lot of people are saying that general flynn has been really, really acutely interested in protecting his son from being prosecuted. his son as far as i know just had his first child. he worked with his father closely at the flynn intel group. i get the human drama of this. what i don t get is how a person can trade their own infor