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
eight are falsifying business records in the first degree. and falsifying business records is what the trump organization is effectively accused by prosecutors already of having done in the felony campaign finance case that is sending michael cohen to prison in a matter of weeks and in which the president is also have alleged to have directed the buyer scheme. and it s true there is a federal 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
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,