protection. and they are arguing that she is trying to leverage her position in one of the investigations to help the other one. anderson. that s what s confusing. the subpoenas are part of a civil case. the attorney general is also involved in a criminal investigation, which is being run by the manhattan district attorney s office. that s right. i mean, this this she had launched this civil investigation into 2019. the manhattan district attorney s office launched their investigation, initially looking into the payments that were paid to stormy daniels to silence her allegations of an affair with trump. but then, they also began looking into the same conduct. michael cohen s interviewed with the manhattan da s office at least eight times. james then joined the da s investigation earlier-this year and she participated in the indictment that was announced against the trump organization and its cfo, allen weisselberg, relating to an alleged tax fraud scheme. so now, they are work
the attorney general james she is going to be there. the district attorney. they are going to be there year after year. so, you know, delay is certainly always something that the trumps are going to try but it s going to be a lot less effective when you are dealing with elected officials who have terms that go on for a period of years, unlike congress. and, preet, how does lety sha james joining the investigation change things? does it somehow raise stakes for their testimony? i mean, so far, we understand the current dispute that we have been talking about to relate to the civil investigation. now, kara scannell brought up an interesting point and i will see how it s explained by the trump folks in their papers. it is true, as a general matter, by which you need to be careful. that if you have a parallel civil proceeding and a criminal proceeding, that you don t use the more generous and loose standards of the civil investigative proceeding to serve to help buttress your