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Presidential candidates that have agreed with her plan. when you are looking the plan itself, you can't understand anything in it. it would lead to millions of people being underemployed or unemployed, maybe they come on code, who knows. it would lead to unconstitutional state violations because state and local governments are in charge of building codes. my question to her would be, how she read the constitution? knows about the tenth amendment? >> tucker: i think it is a fundamental misunderstanding, you heard her say what happens know what matters is she is a really good person and you are ...

Payments may very well be state violations of new york law. that's not something that either this whitaker, this acting attorney general, or barr, or even a presidential pardon can deal with. >> good point. >> i think this is serious new hot water. thank you, everybody. jeff mason, thank you, a fascinating interview. thank you for coming on to talk about it. we have much more ahead -- we'll show you what happened in the oval office with the president and the congressional leadership. no tables were flipped, but in every other way, it was made for tv. also ahead, president would have you ...

>> go ahead, daniel. >> one thing i was going to maggie's important point is why up -- he's cooperating with federal and perhaps state agencies, and all of the fraud around those companies and payments may very well be state violations of new york law. that's not something that either this whitaker, this acting attorney general, or barr, or even a presidential pardon can deal with. >> good point. >> i think this is serious new hot water. thank you, everybody. jeff mason, thank you, a fascinating interview. thank you for coming on to talk about it. we have much more ahead -- we'll show you ...

If somehow he were pardoned by the president, all a state attorney general need do, whether it's in new york or whether it's in virginia, on the tax violations, they need only take this and use that to prosecute paul manafort for state violations. >> right. because it's not like he went to those lengths to evade federal taxes and then paid every last state tax. >> exactly. and in new york state you have a very strict money-lan derring statute that probably has more onerous penalties than the federal statute. and when you tie that together with this plea agreement, the cooperation agreement, it...

Criminal investigation, don't say anything ill of the president. >> of course, president bush had that same power and he exercised it in relation so weinberger and five other people. the problem is states have become more sophisticated lately and lsis a state investigation, and he can't pardon people accused of state violations. in fact, there is a statute that would prevent double jeopardy, in effect, prosecution of someone who has been pardoned by the president federally would be allowed to be tried on comparable or even identical state charges. this is a way to try and eliminate the power o...