durham is working in coordination with the d.o.j. inspector general horowitz investigating the fisa abuse and the top democrats are worried that the ongoing probes could throw cold water on impeachment dreams. not just the congressional democrats fantasizing about impeachment. form lawyer baker is now praying to the impeachment gods. watch this. imsimilar a political process. to impeachment is a political process. if you don t have the support of the american people it won t go forward. that requires educating the american people. that is what congress needs to do and focus on and figure out how to do that in an effective way. that is what the so-called nonpartisan f.b.i. looks like. under comey s dreadful leadership. we are learning michaelflip caught the attention of the federal investigators as early as 2015 and was a target of stephen halpert. the informant that spied on
prosecutors go first versus whether the local prosecutors go first. generally speaking, if the federal prosecutors go first and it s the same conduct that s at issue, depending on the state constitution of the local prosecutor, and in new york, it s a pretty it s a pretty high bar, they can t go forward. so there are arguments that can be made depending on what their case is about. i don t know exactly what their case is about. but it likely will at a minimum be about tax evasion. and there was a fix made to new york law some years ago after the leona helmsly case, making it clear that if you commit tax evasion on the federal level federal taxes, and then separately evade state taxes, you don t have a double jeopardy problem. so i would expect he s at a minimum looking at that. but without knowing the details, you don t know what the legal obstacles will be. there may be some, but they re pretty smart over there and probably have figured out a way not to have those problems. wow.
attorney in new york preparing in case mueller gets pardoned by the president, he they can do that? i mean, how would how do they actually go about that? you have to do it carefully. we have something in the constitution called the double jeopardy clause. right, yeah. and it can apply, depending on the circumstances, in both directions if the federal prosecutors go first versus whether the local prosecutors go first. generally speaking, if the federal prosecutors go first and it s the same conduct that s at issue, depending on the state constitution of the local prosecutor, and in new york, it s a pretty it s a pretty high bar, they can t go forward. so there are arguments that can be made depending on what their case is about. i don t know exactly what their case is about. but it likely will at a minimum be about tax evasion. and there was a fix made to new york law some years ago after the leona helmsly case, making it clear that if you commit tax evasion on the federal l
scale on the issue of immigration and illegal immigration, including some employees at the bedminster golf club of president trump himself, it s a sensitive issue. and the article went live on nbcnews.com talking about the nannygate. what happened here? reporter: we know heather nauert employed a foreign-born nanny in new york, lived with her family many years ago. questions about the legal status of that nanny and she wasn t paying taxes on that nanny. a lot of folks in the past, many decades, getting back to the clinton administration felled by similar issues. later she paid the taxes but this came up as she was being vetted for the u.n. ambassador role, and now looks like it can t go forward. vetted before in 2017, named spokesperson there for the state department. even at that time many people thought she was not ready for primetime. they especially thought this for the u.n. role.
at the white house yesterday speaking about the trade deal. but at the end of the day the chinese economy is very dependent on exports to the united states. they can t go forward without us. they own a lot of u.s. debt and it s part of this. at the end of the day the chinese have to come together and hopefully if president trump meets one-on-one with president xi it s a success. the president can say i m the one that actually did the deal at the end of the day. sandra: one area of concern for the economy despite the growth in economic numbers, the drop in the unemployment rate seems to be good news. then they say wages aren t growing. now there is evidence wages are growing and some companies directly reflecting it. we re at a 17-month high for wage growth jumped 2.6% and get another jobs report friday. great news. amazon just announced on fox business that they ll be paying $15 minimum to all employees. why is this important?