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Actions that a president could take that would violate the law. he could order a u.s. attorney to indict one of his political enemies when there was no evidence to indict them. that would be a crime. he could accept a bribe in exchange for an appointment of a supreme court justice. i'm just making this stuff up, but that would be a crime. his power is not limitless and he is accountable under the constitution to both the executive branch and the courts and ultimately to the voters. >> joyce vance, thank you for helping us understand the breakdown there, as always. i appreciate it. thank you. >...

Surprise with bots, russian trolls, misinformation, these researchers are trying to prevent a repeat with this new technology. >> it's huge. the implications you could imagine, first of all, on the one hand people could just make stuff up, on the other hand real stuff folks could say and you can imagine the president doing that that's a deep fake, i didn't actually say that. let's get to the technology companies' involvement and response. facebook refused to remove that doctored nancy pelosi video last month. what are they doing to get ahead of the deep fake problem, if anything, and are they ...

There weren't people dancing on the buildings after 9/11. he lies all of the time and you know it! and this stuff with otto warmbier. >> i don't know it. >> i don't know it. he says. i just wonder, bill crystal, your reaction to this. because two-plus years into the trump presidency, and if approximawe all can't agree he makes stuff up, how are we able to have conversations? >> matt does know it. he's not a foolish person. he doesn't want to say it. and in some way, he's now rationalizing it, and this is true of so many conservatives and republicans, unfortunately. that they're getting good po...

An allegation because michael cohen is saying, in retrospect i think they were talking about the trump tower meeting with the russian government lawyer but he's not 100% sure, but that is a rather explosive allegation if president trump knew about it ahead of time which of course he did not. >> it's an expressive allegation. it is also a defense to the charge that michael cohen is just making everything up, because if he was making everything up, he'd make up a hell of a lot better story than that one. it's a vague half heard conversation that may or may not be about the trump tower meetings. ...

Be really unfortunate about this is that i think it's important that the rule coming out of this is we don't sort of adopt a suspicion when it comes to hate crimes. i still feel like after this, after the rolling stone uva hoax, you still want to i think default to not believing victims credibly, not accepting everything they say, but treating their accounts with respect. and sort of assuming by and large people don't make this sort of stuff up, even if in like occasional high pressure cas, high-profile cases they do. >> i will turn back to you. at the new yorker, they were talking about this ...