you are just misstating the facts here. the edwards case didn t say it was not legal. edwards was charged for breaking campaign finance. it was different. he was acquitted on a charge. it was a hung jury on several others. one of the differences there is the payoffs began a lot before the campaign. in this case the payment was made immediately before the election. you have donald trump s voice on tape talking about the payments. it s different. the violation here, say whatever you want, but the violation here is making a payment donald trump making a payment or instructing someone to make a payment which he reimburses them to someone is not a violation of campaign law, if you report it. if you report that contribution it is not that s a permissible payment. here s the interesting thing. the payment took place a few days before the election. under campaign finance law it
charging documents saying he was directed to do so by the president of the united states. that is a crime. i just fundamentally disagree with that. with me or with the southern district? look, there s a crime on the books of not reporting a continue buying this isn t reporting. this is a $130,000 contribution, an illegal contribution. $130,000, snarenators is a lot e than $2700. the contribution isn t illegal. not reporting the contribution is illegal. no. donald trump can pay anybody he wants michael cohen made the donation which made it illegal. it wasn t from donald trump. it was from michael cohen. he was directed to make the donation according to michael cohen and the southern district. also illegal according to the charging documents was the way they tried to hide the donation which gets to this. but
when the fbi holds you and i mean normal by anybody other than an fbi prosecutor you do kind of get the feeling that you are in custody. right? we are not experts. slicing the words i mean, you are sitting down with the fbi. you might think they d offer you just like a local police department an opportunity to bring in the lawyer. it certainly can be intimidating to be called into the fbi, just as you said, harris. the average person may not understand their options. i think he was being advised by counsel at the time, so that may have helped mr. flynn. at the end of the day, while it may not have been the ideal law enforcement practice, my understanding is that it isn t illegal for the fbi to suggest that he come he come on accompanied by a lawyer. it wouldn t invalidate the testimony. it s just perhaps something that you would say is not the best practice. harris: i wrote that down.
john brabender? every time i m on a show the democrats seem excited about the breaking news about the day republicans right what we learned today smikis michael cohen says they were talking to the russians after iowa and donald trump said it was before iowa and there s nothing illegal aabobout that. why did he cover it up? he didn t want it to be a political storm. i don t know why michael cohen did a lot of lying about this. nobody cares about michael cohen. why did trump deny it? again and again today. we have it on tape. let me ask you this. by him denying it, is that illegal? the answer is probably not. why did he lie if he didn t have to? i can t tell you got to help me here, he s your guy, come on. what i can tell you is, this isn t one of those smokes guns where democrats are going to be out in the streets. what he said isn t illegal, even if he did lie. it s probably not illegal for roger stone to know weeks before the dnc we just got o
steve: suddenly poo tuts can stand for plumber of the united states of america. hey, scott, let me ask you this though. what did you makes a a guy who has drawn a million cartoons in his life in the visual display. what did you think of that time magazine display with the images of donald trump over his head apparently on the verge of drowning in deep? in terms of imagery, it s really great. you notice we are in this two completely different realities now. in one reality the president keeps violating all these things which are not actual laws. so, for example, there was owe a collusion that isn t illegal. the obstruction that didn t happen. the meeting at the tower that wasn t illegal. and now the payments to stormy that are totally legal. so part of the country believes that he is a serial law breaker. the other side sees absolutely nothing happening. and i usually apply what i call the big foot test to those two realities. which is two hunters go into the forest and they come back