as frequent as they are in federal courts so what i m saying, jen, i that if district attorney brag issues - or hands down an indictmen that is focused on hush mone payments, that doesn t preclud him from continuin investigations into othe potential crimes and that is consistent wit malpractice in almost ever state i know of. peoples expectations, i could be another case you coul be looking into. this may not be the last w hear from the da s office on trump and a potentia indictment at the time you had handed i off, had you approved an indictment of trump on his finances before you left office? again, jim, i have said tha i am not going to talk about m specific discussions with th lawyers in my office but as i ve said, even had i made that decision it would ve been mr. briggs decision t review, because our, work we
records in the first degree, that s when you falsify business record in order t conceal or commit another crim but that crime is is a thing that has people like m scratching our heads, all th way from new york to watch i and in between i know harr will have something to say about that as well we talk about hush money payments do w know whether the hush mone payments are involved in thi because we did see david pecke come in two times i believe, they testify before this grand jury he s mostly involved wit another set of hush mone payments, catching kills game. he s involved with both the really, because he was presented with the storm daniels situation, and h declined to pay directly as he did with caught him with the oval, and had dylan howard shu that to michael cohen, we ar right to say that hi involvement in the first one was higher, he s als personally involved in at leas two conversations with cohen i trump i believe, as you and have discussed, that s the reason he came back to
a crime. but by themselves, hush mone payments are not necessarily crimes strangely enough, if you are the one demanding the hush money payment, you may b extorting a victim but that doesn t appear to b what happened. really, really quickly smart move by his attorney t do that interview and kind o give away what a defense tragedy might look like? now allen bragg may have som insight into their thinking. probably not. but at the same time, when you are an attorney, a lot of th times you may make strategic recommendations to your client they often don t follow it i wrote a column on this o msnbc.com, if i can plug it, about this exact issue yes, the rest of the panel, write stuff too. not as well as you do. but i do write things from tim to time. [laughter] the key is here, sometimes you don t have a choice. sometimes the client says, i want you to go out there, ge ahead of this. and a lot of times you have to say, yes, sir. it s great to see you in person it s been a couple of
this to an election campaign committee. at all does that go in the rule of law? for the election la violation. it s a point to be made there, it goes back to my analysi where i compared the classic election law - where i give you a bag of money, you fail to report it. you don t. that s a classic case. the stormy daniels one is a lo more complicated than that you have michael cohen doing that, and then his reimburse do we even know if trump was the person actually signin things, he notoriously has a lot, of as they described in the godfather, buffers so, tacopina, his opponent kne may have a point there but it s also a point that the prosecution could lead into crime. so reasonable line here to differ on what the payment made to stormy daniels wer found. but by themselves, hush mone payments are not by themselves crimes weirdly enough, if you may b
violation there is a point t be made there. it goes back to my analysi where i compare the classi election law violation, whic is i give you a bag of money you fail to report it, it your campaign, you re th candidate. it s that classic. case the class of stormi daniels, is a lot more complicated than that you have michael cohe doing the painting, then he reimbursed, do we know even if trump was the person actuals actually signing things he has notoriously as they described in the godfather, buffers, people that do is wor for a. so - his attorney may have a poin there. but it s also a point that the prosecution can weave into a crime. so, reasonable minds here coul possibly differ on whether the payments made to stormy diners war crime. but by themselves, hush mone payments are not necessarily crimes strangely enough if you re the one demanding the payments, th new maybe extorting a victim it doesn t appear to - really quickly, a smart mov