prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting a sitting president. but that federal justice department policy doesn t bind state prosecutors whatsoever. and neither state prosecutors nor federal prosecutors are barred from bringing any sort of prosecution against the president s business or against people who work for the president at his business, whether or not they re his children. is this today new york prosecutors showing the president how to expect this will be done? joining us once again is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in alabama. joyce, thank you for sticking with us. i m wondering what you think about this idea that the state prosecutors are sort of taking aim at the president here and showing the way that state law might produce a prosecution even out of those felony campaign finance charges we already saw against cohen. it s very interesting that we re talking really about three different prosecutors offices, at least three, the southern district in new york. that s fede
will be done? joining us once again is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in alabama. joyce, thank you for sticking with us. i m wondering what you think about this idea that the state prosecutors are sort of taking aim at the president here and showing the way that state law might produce a prosecution even out of those felony campaign finance charges we already saw against cohen. it s very interesting that we re talking really about three different prosecutors offices, at least three, the southern district in new york. that s federal prosecutors. today we ve got charges filed by the manhattan district attorney. that s a second office. and then the third office that also appears to be quite interested in the functioning of both the trump organization and the foundation is the new york attorney general s office. these are the folks who ve previously caused the foundation to dissolve and who issued subpoenas that were reported yesterday for trump organization deals with deutsche bank.
justice department policy that arguably constrains any federal prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting a sitting president. but that federal justice department policy doesn t bind state prosecutors whatsoever. and neither state prosecutors nor federal prosecutors are barred from bringing any sort of prosecution against the president s business or against people who work for the president at his business, whether or not they re his children. is this today new york prosecutors showing the president how to expect this will be done? joining us once again is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in alabama. joyce, thank you for sticking with us. i m wondering what you think about this idea that the state prosecutors are sort of taking aim at the president here and showing the way that state law might produce a prosecution even out of those felony campaign finance charges we already saw against cohen. it s very interesting that we re talking really about three different prosecutors offices,
money mamts who claims they had afires with for trump and as cohen has admitted with resbekt to both payments, he paeted enscofeed kw the boy. felony campaign finance. and they really are extraordinary allegations for the department of justice to be make aing very, very unusual to allege that the president himself was involved in criminal activity. it s important to note the fileing itself doesn t accuse the president off a crime. but certainly indicated he was involved in this a 7 and it really ememployeed that the president was somehow involved in a criminal activity.
in just a voice vote overwhelmingly. what s the president thinking with william barr? well, i don t know what he s thinking. he probably thinks he wants to kill off the mueller investigation. let s start william barr, people with different opinions of him. i happen to have a very high opinion of william barr. he was a very good attorney general and could be a good attorney general in any administration. but he must recuse from the russia investigation and all the other investigations of the trump campaign, including the investigation of the southern district of new york. let s look at the facts. just today we ve learned the prosecutors in new york, they believed the president of the united states has committed felony campaign finance robert mueller has already obtained kwiks of guilty pleas for the president s lawyer. we have the president s former campaign chairman, paul manafort, the vice chair of the campaign, mr. gates. we have the former national security adviser, michael flynn,