campaign finance laws, right, that his team was trying to dupe the american public by covering these alleged affairs or sexual harassment and dupe the american public before they elected him? >> that's one of the ways this could turn into a criminal matter if there was an election law violation here. that's potentially what john edwards was tried for years ago. and it looks like that's a pretty good chance. you know, these were benefits to the campaign right before the election. so, the timing looks like that, in fact, was the reason for the payoffs. problem is they're very rarely criminally charged. federal election is unlikely to do anything about that. it probably won't go down that road for him but there is exposure there. >> the series of tweets from the president this morning, calling out the special counsel bob mueller. he's quoting alan dershowitz, professor emeritus who wrote this piece in the hill this morning. dershowitz's point is that the