this week following on the film of the adult film actress, who goes by the name, stormy daniels, she is ready to reveal so much more than any of us wanted to know about her own alleged affair with trump. joining us now. danny savos and forbes contributing writer, anusha hussein and i am going to start with you, danny, on the leadle sort of issues here at issue. you have this woman, miss mcdougall, who says she signed away her story to the national enquirer. they paid her to bury it. they were never going to publish it. she is paid money. you have stormy daniels, allegedly paid money to not talk about her affair with donald trump. according to the letter of the law, would these be considered bribes? bribes, maybe. i have defended bribery cases.
it is unusual there have been no notes. i think it is headed for a deadlocked jury and mistrial. julie: not much of a surprise. not at all. julie: bob, among the 12 counts against menendez and 11 counts against his co-defendant the florida eye doctor, which accusation do you believe jurors are hung up on? the fact that there were private jet flights, luxury hotel stays, $750,000 in campaign contributions in exchange for the federal government s help in his medicare disputes or are they confused about how friends of 20 years poses a major conflict of interest? well, major conflict of interest and a violation of the criminal law are two separate things. this was a difficult case for the prosecution. it was based on circumstantial evidence. in bribery cases you have to prove it through direct evidence. they inferred it based upon the gifts. look at it this way. imagine any politician saying
in today s money, power, politics, a federal judge on monday refused to throw out bribery charges against democratic senator bob menendez. the defense had cited the supreme court ruling which overturned corruption charges of former virginia governor bob mcdonald which also narrowed the definition of what constituted corruption. the new jersey senator is charged with illegally accepting favors for years from a close friend and florida eye doctor. those guests allegedly included a three-night stay at a five-star hotel in paris and nearly 575,000 bucks in campaign money all for damn pain favors. you have defended bribery cases in this jurisdiction.
counsel recruits people into efforts like this and what the addition of someone at this phase might signify? yeah. that s exactly right. i worked with greg andreas, he was one of the most respected prosecutors in the department. put mobsters in jail. did overseas bribery cases. very experienced prosecutor now making probably millions of dollars in private practice. this what bob mueller has been doing is a little bit like if you watch some of the avengers movies, at the beginning of the movie they re assembling from across the globe to take on a new threat. mueller has been doing that. it s not just andreas, but he s had the pick of litter at the justice department and those who have gone on to lucrative private practice positions an they re coming back because this is one of the premiere cases in the last couple of decades. this is an investigation both into crimes that occurred during the crime and foreign subversion
that trial is happening in new york, the new york times and bloomberg news are now both reporting that the family who owns that mining company? that mining company which has been under fbi investigation in these bribery cases and which, according to the times is also has also been investigated directly under the foreign corrupt practices act, that mining firm is run by the steinmetz family. and as of tonight, with this new reporting, we now know that the steinmetz family has also apparently been jared kushner s secret financier for over $100 million in very recent new york city real estate purchases. you don t have to be crooked yourself as an american company, you cannot legally do business with countries abroad and with individual businessmen abroad who pay bribes, who launder money, or otherwise engage in foreign corrupt practices. so we ve got a new department of justice now. helmed by trump appointees from attorney general jeff sessions on down. deputy attorney general was j