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Because cbs is not part of it. there is a claim called tortious interference of contract, but that really isn't apt in this setting and i don't think that would be successful. so the answer i think is no, the nda shouldn't really bar cbs from airing this or subject them to liability. >> michael avenatti who represents stormy daniels was here with me last weekend and i asked him the following question. let's watch. has anyone offered to pony up the million dollars to protect her and say here, i'm good for it, go tell your story? >> at lesion ten individuaast t the last three days along. >> what...

But in the upcoming midterm elections, with those voters that we need to win back, those white suburban women, those college educated women, this is going to matter. and the fact that it just keeps coming is going to matter. and i think it's going to continue the trend in '18 of democrats picking up seats. i really do. >> do you think, paul, from a legal standpoint that -- you know, there was talk last week that perhaps they might try to stop cbs from running the interview? again, that seems to me like it would just give more publicity to the interview, which again, just for full disclosure, i...

To the interview, which again, just for full disclosure, i conducted. >> they haven't slapped the handcuffs on you yet. so -- >> what is it? seven days? eight days. we'll see. >> i wouldn't be surprised to see an effort still to stop the interview. there is a doctrine in law called tortious interference with contract. here's the theory they'll use against "60 minutes" and maybe even against you personally, which is you're aware that a contract exists requiring her to remain silent, and you are deliberately breaching that contract. generally, if you were -- you were not a broadcast network and ...

Result, they'll say of the tortious interference of the chicago mayor, but separate and apart from that, jay, i want to ask you, ram hm emanuel got in trouble with aclu. remember when he-- with chick-fil-a, and clu said, uh-uh mr. mayo you're a public official and can't discriminate against a group like chick-fil-a because of the beliefs held by chick-fil-a's owners. he doesn't control the banks and can't say we're not doing business. isn't it again, a public official trying to extract a punishment on the gun manufacturers for their beliefs, because what he's saying is, you need to get on boar...

Of an item, here, guns, that are protected by the second amendment and interfere with their contractual relationship, their funding looks like tortious interference of business. this is, calling for a boycott? that's one thing and again that would raise serious issues, but here he's actually saying don't keep those business relationships going, please, period. not that chicago won't do business with the pension funds investing, they can make that decision, chicago can make that decision we're not going to invest in this enterprise, but to tell the private bank of those businesses that you're g...