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you do? trump asked. he just it outside, with a massive crowd of his supporters had gathered. they're cheering their bullhorns could be heard through the oval office windows. i wouldn't want anyone person to have that authority, pence said. but wouldn't it also be cool to have that power? asked the president of the united states. no, pence said. i'm just there to open the envelopes. you know understand, mike, you can do this. i don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this. trump's voice became louder, and he grew threatening. you betrayed us, i made you. you were nothing...

Authority of the united states. it really is the closest thing that we have to a charge of treason during times of peace. the treason statute can only be used when we are at war, for someone who provides aid and comfort to the enemy. but this one brings with it a connotation of his loyalty to the united states. so, it's a very serious crime. but i think it's appropriate in a case we want to bring the moral condemnation on people who have actually tried to overturn the united states government. >> it was a wise decision to ask you these questions. barbara, it's always good to have you here. bar...

Factual basis of the plea. rob: there were two moments that stood out to a lot of people and a lot of the analysis discussed, one was the judge acting whether or not he may have committed treason which seemed to come almost out of nowhere and the second is when the judge accused him of being an unregistered foreign agent for a foreign nation while he was a national security advisor for the president and he had to backtrack that, admitting flynn stopped working with turkey before the election. what did you make of those moments? >> the first was a misunderstanding of fact in terms of working wi...

We don't prosecute treason under the treason statute under the constitutional provision when we're not at a time of war, very rarely do, but when you have foreign government assistance of political campaign that violates campaign laws, there's computer hacking laws, with respect to a lot of the information that the russians obtained, of course the false statements, they lied about their contacts with the russians, several of these people now working for the united states government. and i think -- i've been a republican for 30 years. they say this isn't collusion. our prior history with the co...

War, we have the treason statute. in times of undeclared war, and that was throughout the entire cold war period, and today, we have other statutes to address conduct which is essentially treasonous, which is a conduct undermining the american system of democracy. we have statutes that govern computer hacking and computer crimes. we have statutes that govern campaigns, foreign nationals and foreign governments are not supposed to be making contributions in kind or in any way to american political campaigns. we have a wide range of statutes that have been used to address the fundamental problem...