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It's a crime if you're president. it's a crime if you're the president's lawyer. it is a crime if you're the president's chief of staff. it is a crime if you are a u.s. senator. it's a crime if you are a member of congress. it is a crime in every state in the country.met'imt'semecr it is also a federal crime, although, the u.s. justice department appears to be preferring not to notice that. georgia prosecutors are already looking at the commission of this crime in georgia. what we are learning is that there are multiple other states where state prosecutions appear to be possible.nt n wh join...

Irreplaceable. i mean, i've learned more from him about state prosecutions and how they work and what the actual dynamics are and where the decision making points are than i have learned from everybody else. we all had to become sort of federal law adjacent, like kind of jailhouse lawyers for a while, in order to follow a lot of the stuff going on with the trump administration early on. you can't really do that to learn the different criminal law systems in 50 different states. when it comes to what's happened, dan alonzo has been clarifying in terms of what that office can do and the way they...

Followed by danny, are we actually going to see them in. >> it is significant. a little around the presidential immunity. we talked about this. the president's attorney was look, while he's there, he's protected and immunity over state prosecutions that we believe the president has protected by article ii of the constitution. that plays to the third party subpoena. that applies to something looking into his business and not to him specifically. the judges here is saying not so fast. any presidential immunity from state criminal process does not extend to investigative steps. some of this proce...

Can be made public which so many other people have tried to do. neil. >> neil: john roberts. judge andrew napolitano on the legal implications. >> a federal judge in new york issued a 75-page early this morning pretty much obliterated the president's arguments and the president had argued for a broad, unlimited immunity from all civil and criminal intrusion into his world while he's still a sitting president and the judge here in new york, judge marrero pointed out in a famous case, jones versus clinton, the supreme court of the united states unanimously said the president does not enjoy that ...

Prosecutions. second, state prosecutions are pardon proof. so, you know, we have to wait and see how this unfolds but it could spell real trouble for the trump organization and for president trump, himself. >> doug, a lawyer for the trump organization told the "new york times," here's what he commented about the subpoenas, saying they are just harassment of the president, his family, and his business using subpoenas as weapons. we will respond as appropriate. the times reports that the manhattan district attorney first considered mounting this investigation a year ago. >> yes. >> and was told ...