folks, i m not screwing around. this is serious. i know what i m doing and i m not lollygagging around. and there is no question that he is doing that. he has got a number one lieutenant andrew wiseman well known for doing that the enron investigation wiseman headed that task force and that s a task force that had a very legitimate criticism very much overstepped its bounds. as you know virtually all the enron prosecutions were reversed on appeal. tucker: i m aware of that more scared of vladimir putin than we are of our all prosecutors. thank you for your perspective on that. no problem. tucker: the news that the obama administration may have monitored paul manafort, spied on him, surveilled him revives a story you may have forgotten about, the russian collusion narrative in case have you forgotten for several months our country s political and media elite thi thundered without end our government
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folks, i m not screwing around. this is serious. i know what i m doing and i m not lollygagging around. and there is no question that he is doing that. he has got a number one lieutenant andrew wiseman well known for doing that the enron investigation wiseman headed that task force and that s a task force that had a very legitimate criticism very much overstepped its bounds. as you know virtually all the enron prosecutions were reversed on appeal. tucker: i m aware of that more scared of vladimir putin than we are of our all prosecutors. thank you for your perspective on that. no problem. tucker: the news that the obama administration may have monitored paul manafort, spied on him, surveilled him revives a story you may have forgotten about, the russian collusion narrative in case have you forgotten for several months our country s political and media elite thi thundered without end our government
quo, for extortion you are speaking about the enron prosecutions, bob mueller ran that task force. tell us more about what you mean? what i meant is there was an the honest services fraud statute, which allowed you to it was used in a private situation not always for the government when you were violating your honest services by taking money. and it was cut back in the enron case when they reversed skilling s prosecution. i m saying the tools for prosecution have been narrowed. when you are talking about mr. cohen s situation you are talking about did he have connections to public officials? there are lobbying statutes but they are specific about what lobbying is. there are bribery and extortion but you have to have a direct quid pro quo for the bribery and the definition of what official act was done in exchange for the money is pretty narrow after mcdonald.
million by special interest groups, including wall street, the banks and so on, that s not somebody that s on the side of the guy who s struggling. these tapes don t make him look very consistent. and karen mentioned that hypocrisy is frustrating but it s not automatically a crime. what do you see as a prosecutor as the key exposure here? well, i mean, the issue is and maya s absolutely right, if all cohen was doing was running around saying i know the president, i know the president, give me lots of money and they did and there were no connections to trump, then you have stuff that sinks, it s a my myasma of putrid swampiness but it s not a crime. for bribery you have to have a direct quid pro quo. you re speaking about the enron prosecutions, which bob