for bank robbery and i lie to you about my hair color, nobody cares very much. it s not material. but if i lie to you about being asked to drive the get away car, then that would be an important matter and something that i could be charged for lying about. it s the same deal here. it looks like a lot of the smoke surrounds the money making potential. dan mentions the foreign corrupt act. on the family member side, they would argue they weren t originating this plan. this is coming from felix sater and cohen s the one making the calls, and they re receiving, you know, this kind of information or plotting that didn t ultimately come to fruition. it s still a little different from their old defense and eric trump sounding like his dad.
don t know exactly where the pieces are on the chessboard or what roles they play. i think dan is actually dead on the money on his assessment of this. we talk about materiality and try to decide if it s money or something else, a way that s helpful for me to think about it is if you re investigating me for branch robbery and i lie to you about my hair color, nobody cares very much. it s not material. but if i lie to you about being asked to drive the get away car, then that would be an important matter and something that i could be charged interefor lyin about. it s the same deal here. it looks like a lot of the smoke surrounds the money and am ony making potential. dan mentions the foreign corrupt act. on the family member side, they would argue they weren t originating this plan. this is coming from felix seder and cohen s the one making the calls, and they re receiving,