accountability reporter who wrote about the fund-raising totals and daniel weaner who is a senior council with democracy program at the brendan center for justice and campaign finance expert. michelle, what is different about the fund-raising apparatus donald trump has compared to predecessors? unlike presidents before him, he started raising money for reelection as soon as he became president, which means he had a long time already to just stockpile a lot of money away for reelection campaign. in the first 24 hours of his official launch yesterday, he reported raising $25 million. that s about a million an hour. even after that, he held a big money luncheon with deathy donors today and the campaign reported raising $6 million. that s a ton of money in the past 48 hours and eclipses anything the democrats have
completely untrue. for us to all just jump to assume he s guilty is the wrong approach. if it was a democrat, would you be saying let s look at the paper trail, which is pretty clear? if it was not an election if it was for the good of your party, given what s surrounding him, given the house is in play, should he continue to run? well, he doesn t have a choice. he can t be replaced on the ballot. that s the other thing that gives me pause in this situation. they brought these charge after it was too late for him to get off the ballot. we ve heard rumors going on two years this was going to happen. that should give all of us a little bit of pause to think, wow, is there something going on that s politically motivated? with should not just jump to conclusions that based on clearly poor management of money that he did something that is illegal. i just got to say, one of the things that is so powerful about campaign finance laws, and i m a campaign finance expert. i ve spent m
about was probably in line with one, he has no attorney/client privilege to protect the conversation. he could i assume talk executive privilege. but remember, don mcgahn is a campaign finance expert. was once on the sec as a commissioner. he probably has information and insight into the role he played on the campaign, whether there was in kind contribution, which are of interest to mueller s team. which would tie back perhaps to michael cohen if we see more play out there. again, executive privilege wouldn t cover, if there was, the time that he was on the campaign, right? precisely. before he was in the white house. patrick, when you look at the big picture. transitional period, there is some protection. fair point. important point and nuance. politically looking at this, if you look at the president and his reactions this month and the month isn t over, he tweeted about the quote, unquote witch hunt, which he deemed this 67 times. 67 times. compared to 19 times in july.
can you please clear his up for us? the end result is simple. that s all we are interested in. the president of the united states did not in any way violate the campaign finance law. every campaign finance expert will tell you if it was for another purpose other than just campaigns and even if it was the campaign purposes. if it was to save his family, to save embarrassment it s not a campaign donation. and second even if it was a campaign donation, the president reimbursed it fully with a payment of $35,000 a month to pay for that and other expenses. case over. that case should be dismissed by the southern district of new york. at least with regard to president trump. judge jeanine: did you misspeak or did people not interpret what you were saying. are you talking about the facts or the law. lawsuit and the conclusion.
us? the end result is simple. that s all we are interested in. the president of the united states did not in any way violate the campaign finance law. every campaign finance expert will tell you if it was for another purpose other than just campaigns and even if it was the campaign purposes. if it was to save his family, to save embarrassment it s not a campaign donation. and second even if it was a campaign donation, the president reimbursed it fully with a payment of $35,000 a month to pay for that and other expenses. case over. that case should be dismissed by the southern district of new york. at least with regard to president trump. judge jeanine: did you misspeak or did people not interpret what you were saying. are you talking about the facts or the law. lawsuit and the conclusion. the facts i m still learning.