is your viable federal defense to your conduct? and again, that separation of powers, the federalism aspects of it, says there s not a lot there. finally it may be a case of forum shopping for juries because obviously a fulton county demographic district of georgia, excuse me. but here s the key to remember. even if it s removed, it s under a federal statute that s not implicated. it just means the state law that s implicated goes to the federal system. but if you are convicted it s still a state law violation and still can t be pardoned. understood. see? you think of everything, laura coates. looking at you, jim. we might have some more questions for you going forward. we ll see. thanks so much. brianna. well, the secret service has spent weeks working to secure former president trump s surrender in fulton county jail. we ll have more on what to expect and how it s different than his previous bookings. and while trump prepares to turn himself in, his republican
he does precisely what the magistrate judge put him on notice he must not do, and he tried to influence a witness by saying something that just was mind blowing. he said the witness shouldn t testify in a grand jury criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged crimes. i contend that what should happen next, ana, is that that information should be packaged up, should be presented to judge tanya chutkan, the presiding judge in his case in washington, d.c., she ll need to make a decision at a very low evidentiary burden of preponderance of the evidence, excuse me, probable cause, if that constitutes witness tampering in violation of his pretrial conditions. then what? release conditions. that i think is where this may end up. it is a state law violation, potentially, but it may end up right back in the courts of washington, d.c. but that s the question then is what happens next.
The OIG says that the city used tens of thousands of dollars in public funds to buy specialized rims and tires for commanders’ vehicles and that state laws prohibit making purchases of more than $20,000 without a public bid.
through michael cohen, and then also a potential look at other misstatements and fraud and continuing forward with the investigation into trump personally, but as i alluded to, there have been no new steps taken in that, and it is difficult to figure out what the state law violation would be for the district attorney, when we re talking about a presidential election, which is of course entirely federal, and it involves federal finance crimes, campaign finance crimes, i should say, as well as a federal election. so not sure what the nexus is to new york and having a hard time finding legal experts that can guide me to that as well. so that s where things stand going forward, katy. we ll have to watch this closely, as you know. but it is a pretty big chapter that has been closed here, and obviously, closing, it appears for the moment anyway, allen weisselberg s continuing corporation, as he moves toward sentencing sometime next year. thank you very much. let s bring in former
than 35 years ago. we thought we were going to hear from her. yesterday our attorney said she is willing to talk so judiciary committee said yeah, she can come and speak on monday. she has now decided she doesn t want to do it. not enough time. steve: she, through her attorney, she is saying exactly the same thing that the democrats have been saying. that is we are not going anywhere until the fbi investigates his case. we have heard, you know, through various sources and, in fact, we played a sound bite earlier in the program from an fbi spokesperson who says, look, it s not the fbi s job to do a criminal background check. that s not how it works. ainsley: we are a federal agency and this happened at the state level. steve: if there were charges, there would be a state law violation not federal law. essentially what they do is look into somebody s character and put together reports and give it to the white house and the white house gives it to the committee and that s what they did af