this is not an argument of the facts of the case. this is a question of whether or not there s undue political influence. in particular, directly related to a potentially use of federal funds. that s why we asked the d.a. to come before us and explain to us questions that are i think are important not only for the federal government, the united states is house of representatives to know but questions that the american people deserve to know the answers to. neil: so if he were ultimately indicted on this charge of having made a hush payment at the time so that none of this would come up regarding an affair with a former porn star, if he is indicted and that charge sticks and he s found guilty of that, is that a serious enough crime to warrant punishment to you? ultimately that will be a question for a judge and a jury
charge. does it matter at all his motive in making that charge? we really don t know yet much about his motive. obviously the investigation is sning. the motive is always going to be important with regard to how that charge sticks. trust me, having been with the fbi and the joint terrorism task force for 15 years working cases such as this, attempted subway bombing in 2009, attempted times square bombing in 2010, the chelsea bombing of 2016, the motive is important. the prosecution of this case, the eastern district has been made. this highlights the elements of the crime. you ve said while people can rest easy with the suspect in custody now, it s crucial that
her with this populist messaging. i think hillary clinton is someone who does whatever s necessary at the time. she s not a ralph nader. she s not an elizabeth warren. she s not ideologically driven. she will do what is politically viable. sort of talking about income inquality is what she thinks is going to get her ahead in the polls. mike, if this charge sticks, that she is crony capitalist elitist, i m wondering if she ll tack to the left during the campaign, whether she ll endorse policies that will hurt capitalism even more. the only thing that s going to matter as far as whether or not she gets elected is whether or not the republicans who, let s not forget george bush was the biggest spender as a president we ever had until president obama. that s true. all of the presidents, except ronald reagan during my lifetime, if you look at government spending have been crony capitalists. nixon was, ford was. so we need a reagan-like
something that is politically concocted, if not, it certainly it s gloria allred s self-promotion. in these kind of instances one of two things happen. either the charge sticks and real damage is done or there s a natural inclination, towards the end of a high profile campaign for the people to look a little skeptical at these kind of charges. i think meg whitman is going to have the latter, i think people are going to look at this rather skeptically. megyn: how bad is it for meg whitman that she came out yesterday and said we didn t get that letter and it s in the hands of gloria allred, and we didn t have that letter, then gloria came out with the letter that came from the social security administration with whitman s husband s handwriting on it and he came out and said later that might actually been my handwriting and i might have done that. gloria allred, saying she got caught in a lie. well, look, it was pretty straightforward. i thought he went further than that, but said loo