asking for more time to respond to stormy daniel s lawsuit. her attorneys argue the hush agreement is void because trump did not sign it. let s discuss this with my legal experts avery friedman, a civil rights attorney and law professor joining us from cleveland. and richard herman, a new york criminal defense attorney and law professional joining us from las vegas. good to see you. the president claims he knew nothing about the payoff to stormy daniels by commenting on this scandal, even by saying no, he doesn t know. does he open up any new legal issues for him? he opened up a legal pando pandora s box. i mean, i can t imagine how many times his lawyers probably told him this is something we re not going to talk about because if you make a comment, you re falling into the trap of having to have your deposition taken. and that s exactly what is going to happen now. because when he says, well, why don t you just ask my lawyer about it, talk to michael cohen
and every time mr. trump opens up his mouth on this, we learn something new on this and it is more complicated so i a agree with the wall street journal that people are not taking this seriously. this could be the beginning of the end as the journal said that would not be surprising here. all right. we will leave it there. and one more thing, fred, conjecture, because i don t know it, but trump seemed concerned about the timing of when this stormy daniels erupted and it is five years they did nothing to shut them up. and it was dormant until it is. and maybe a prenuptial agreement on trump if he is fooling around and conjecture and i don t know, but it could be. and we will see how it unfolds. and we never have enough time for you. but so appreciate you. good to see you.
if there was an illegal campaign contribution from trump enterprises, from another place we don t know about it. it is an illegal contribution. if it came from trump business enterprises, that is where the problem is here. again. the other thing i want to make a point in says, president trump, yes, he did comment on this for the first time yesterday it is one thing if he lies to reporters and the media, saying i don t know where the payment came from. it is another thing if he is lying under oath in deposition. is he going to get to depose trump. thank you. u.s. and china. how the tariffs could affect the u.s. consumer.
going to uncover it and make a big show. he s essentially saying, no, i m not going along with that. i m surprised, but not for the fact that he s not following the facts, but the fact that he s not in lock-step with the white house on this one. john huber is the federal prosecutor, preston, who is going to be looking at this. initially appointed by president obama, reappointed by president trump. the reception has been pretty good on the hill, but this is not an easy assignment that he has. it sen inkr an incredibly ha assignment, one that i wouldn t want to be drawn into with the threat of corruption going all the way into the white house. i think it was a brilliant move on jeff sessions part, because you got someone who not only was appointed by obama but reappointed by president trump. he is thousands of miles away in utah, a very conservative state right now, so it gives jeff sessions the breathing time to
they tried to collude, and we only have to go back to june of 2016 in trump tower when you had the meeting between the russian go-between and the trump family, basically. they didn t get the dirt, and that is what was frustrating, right? they talked and didn t have the dirt. there was never any collusion. there was an attempt at collusion, okay, so at least that is a starting point. what is interesting, though, about this is it shows that the focus on this really is on trump. there s bayne leen a loft conct that mueller would use these paths and try to bring everyone down, but now the focus is on gates and to bring him on president trump and not on manafort who clearly has problems. it just shows mueller isn t using this investigation to try to bring everybody down. it s very, very focused. josh, what does this tell you, this revelation about what robert mueller has already? i read two things in this. the first is in line with what