arena as opposed to politics that they recognize the need for accuracy and specificity and that this wasn t going to hold up, so i do think by the way, chris, you mentioned prosecutors, but they ll be an open question as to whether this is an election law violation which is civil, so the burden of proof in that consideration is going to be substantially lower than in any criminal unless they see it as willful or constructive fraud, then it could be a felony. well, right. i m not suggesting that they re exclusive of one another. okay. but but the fec civil side has a relatively low standard of proof to establish violation of federal election laws. it wouldn t surprise me at all if that complaint filed more or less as we speak when the fec
yeah, that s how it works. you might remember, this is how ken starr got ahold of the whole clinton impeachment. he went to janet reno and said we have this new thing involving monica lewinsky. and she assigned it to him. mueller would have taken this i don t think it s new. i think the main thing that he brought, by the way, is the possible election law violation, which committee can get to. he brings to it rosenstein. rosenstein makes a decision. rosenstein decides to refer to it the southern district. and by the way, this wouldn t have been the reason. but notice, all this worry about mueller s being fired, if mueller gets canned, it doesn t affect this southern district of new york investigation. cohen s in for the long ride. this is what is so remarkable to me. because if you pay attention to trump tv, which me we know the president, white house officials, president trump has been watching tv reports of the fbi raiding the office of michael cohen, his long-time
not in the purview. and passes it along. i mean, is that how it works? yeah, that s how it works. you might remember, this is how ken starr got ahold of the whole clinton impeachment. he went to janet reno and said we have this new thing involving monica lewinsky. and she assigned it to him. mueller would have taken this i don t think it s new. i think the main thing that he brought, by the way, is the possible election law violation, which committee can get to. he brings to it rosenstein. rosenstein makes a decision. rosenstein decides to refer to it the southern district. and by the way, this wouldn t have been the reason. but notice, all this worry about mueller s being fired, if mueller gets canned, it doesn t affect this southern district of new york investigation. cohen s in for the long ride. this is what is so remarkable to me. because if you pay attention to trump tv, which me we know the president, white house officials, president trump has been watching tv reports of t
for the public it gives us insight as to how the president ticks and interacts. it is not helpful. nick, same question to you. i think there is a important issue we haven t discussed yet. if the stormy daniels investigation is now in the hands of federal prosecutors, recall how we talked about the potential election law violation of a contribution by the trump strain campaign of paying off stormy daniels. the answer was well the that agency is toothless, they don t enforce anything and it will take years and years. but the justice department has jurisdiction over certain kinds of election law if they are willful. it s possible it could get fast tracked. forget the ftc, justice department could suddenly come back into play, which is important. chuck, rosenberg i
campaign. with stormy daniels, it appears the principle legal problem and the lawyer to the left of me would know better than this, better than me, but whether election funds were used in that stormy daniels payment. and then that would be an elections an election law violation. and that clearly could be of interest to the special counsel, as well. a $130,000 in-kind campaign contribution that could be a violation of campaign finance law. you know, joey, let s talk about some of the other women now who are going after the president, suing the president. karen mcdougal s lawyer. she s the former playmate, wants comment from the president as well. summer suing the president, hasa legal suit against the president. how could this statement on stormy daniels, didn t know anything about the payment, potentially impact the other cases? if i m the president s lawyers, i say it has no impact on the other cases. the president made comments, i think they were ill-advised. any lawyer will te