election law violations. look, the question becomes, it sounds sort of arcane, but the question reduces to, was the objective here to advance trump s political fortunes. in the edwards case there was some reason to think it was really just to sort of shield the payments from his wife. but here you have a conversation in trump s own voice and words making clear that the focus is the campaign, other issues with the campaign, trying to get past the campaign. a jury will determine it. but we are in the shadow of the campaign, as you say. the argument seems pretty strong that the joint objective of these two men is to get past the campaign in order to further his electoral fortunes and not, for example, to shield melania from difficult news. and peter baker, lanny davis was on camera last night on cnn, appealing directly to the american people, looking directly into the camera, and,