promising to protect women s rights and to provide tax relief for teachers and families. that was after a three day swing through battleground pennsylvania meeting voters and talking about his agenda. donald trump is inside a courtroom where he as a criminal defendant must abide by the rules or face consequences and any miss behavior is in view of the jury. as danny points out, performance art and especially aggressive behavior serves trump well at rallies but in my experience juries don t usually appreciate it if the miss behavior continues they may hold it against him. the jury isn t the only audience, all of america is watching. even outside the courtroom doing his daily ranting and begging for money donald trump
but you have to weigh that against putting a little bit more information out there so that people know what they re looking for. that s why i think they re putting out confusioning information. the term targeted was careless and shouldn t have never been used. it threw people off. it was designed to create a sense of security that they were going after these people. they re not just hunting randomly as a predator. they should take that off of the table. they need to hold some information back. as danny points out, that is really important. i think you can selectively put some information out there to gin up credible leads. charles: danny, 103 pieces of individual evidence. 4,000 photographs, 3-d scans, hundreds of hours of investigations and interviews. 1,000 plus tips, 150 interviews. it sounds like a lot to us.
in this case, though, it s two different sets of charges, the federal law as danny points out, those federal charges are under federal law. here we ve got state law violations related to residential mortgage fraud and it seemed very unlikely that any court would find that this violates double jeopardy. and, danny, let s just underscore this point, which is that one of the differences between federal and state charges is that the president in theory can t pardon paul manafort if he is convicted by new york state. we don t have a lot of indications he is prepared to do that on the federal charges, either, but it seems no etable to me. exactly right. the president has a very broad pardon power. arguably so broad he could theoretically pardon himself, although reasonable minds differ, but it has very few limitations, one of those is state crimes. the president cannot pardon state crimes, but something to think about from a policy perspective is this, if paul
this is a matter of active investigation? it doesn t really make much sense. i mean, frankly. it doesn t make much sense. i know what the, you know, as you say, the general public s perception is, if you fire the guy who is leading the investigation against you and you then have somebody admit on your behalf that s why you did it, that doesn t look good. i mean, for appearances, at the very least. and maybe for criminal liability. i mean, i don t think we can overlook the fact that the director serves at the president s pleasure. and he has the authority to remove him, and as danny points out, you know, sometimes you can do something you have the authority to do, but you shouldn t have done it because you are violating a statute at the same time. that said, what we ve seen unfold over the last year, year and a half, is why guys like jim comey and donald trump don t actually get along. seems like they have inconsistent personalities. i don t see donald trump really looking at jim come
point? why would the president s lawyer concede this point given this is an active investigation? it doesn t make much sense. frankly it doesn t make much sense. i know, as you say, what the general public s perception is, if you fire the guy leading the investigation against you and you have somebody admit on your behalf that was why you did it, that doesn t look good for appearances at the very least and maybe for criminal liability. i don t think we can overlook the fact that the director serves at the president s pleasure and he has the authority to remove him, as danny points out, sometimes you can do something you have the authority to do but you shouldn t have done it because you re violating a statute at the same time. what we ve seen unfold over the last year, year and a half and why guys like james comey and donald trump don t get along, it seems like they have inconsistent personalities. which would be a great