joined by chief legal analyst dan abrams. alan dershowitz professor emeritus at harvard law school and author of the new book, "trumped up." we have a lot of new tweets from the president this morning. i want to start out with one he put out on the anniversary of the mueller pick. he said, congratulations, america, we're now into the second year of the greatest witch hunt in american history. still no collusion, no obstruction. the only collusion was done by democrats unable to win an election despite the spending of far more money. that's his take on the first year. what's yours? >> i mean, look, what we know for certain as a result of the this investigation is that the russians did meddle in the election. 13 russians have been indicted by the special counsel. at least six others have been indicted in the last year. in connection with the investigation. so this notion that sort of nothing has happened, here we are a year later. we're still waiting. a lot has happened in the first year. the questions still remain as to what's

abc news analyst dan abrams explains. >> to be able to win a lawsuit, they'd have to be able to provet the writer knew or should have known that there were things in the article that were false, not just misinterpreted, not just misleading. you need false facts that were stated in the context of the article. >> dan abrams goes into more detail about the possible legal fight coming up at 7:00 on gma. >>> 6:17. we have new details on the delivery reboelgts we told you about. kiwi has filled 10,000 orders so far. they use a team of delivery robots. one of them picks up the order at the restaurant. it's loaded into a semi ought ton mows trike. the last mile robot makes the final delivery. kiwi ceo says it's cheaper than human couriers. >>> jellyfish lined up along pacifica state beach taking beachgoers by surprise. the yelly fish are known to wash up in late spring and early summer. experts at the california academy of sciences say this larger beaching appears to be a bay area venom no. officials say this type of jellyfish is usually harmless even when it's in the water. >> they say usual

. >>> let's bring in our chief legal analyst dan abrams. rprising, dan, the president is already up and tweeting. let's put this up from the president right now. he says, so disgraceful the questions concerning the russian witch-hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. oh, i see you have made up phony crime collusion that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. nice! a lot to break down there. first of all, the leaks came almost certainly from trump's legal team. >> there's no question that these leaks did not come from mueller's team but did come from trump's team. how do we know that? in "the new york times" article they make it very clear that this came from a list of questions that mueller's team read to them and so trump's team created this list that was then leaked by someone outside of trump's defense team but no question it came from trump's side. >> and no question also that it covers everything you would have expected mueller to be covering. >> well, including collusio

dan abrams, thanks very much. robin. >>> all right, george, now there are new developments on president trump's nominee for cia director. gina haspel who is expected to meet with senators today after reports that she offered to withdraw her nomination because of her record on torture. our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce has more. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, trump's pick for cia director gina haspel is facing a potentially brutal confirmation hearing here on the hill later this week and now she's reportedly getting cold feet. "the washington post" reports that on friday, she offered to withdraw her nomination but that white house officials scrambled to convince her not to step aside. look, she is going to face tough questions about her role in enhanced interrogations. there's no question that her confirmation has become a real referendum on the country's use of torture but the president himself is coming to her defense just moments ago tweeting, gina haspel has come und

more on this from pierre thomas and our chief legal analyst, dan abrams.in where jon left off and that's with you, pierre. rosenstein acting pretty quickly, this does not completely fulfill the president's and others' debland to turn it over to congress. >> reporter: no, it doesn't but clearly the justice department is saying we will investigate what the president wants us to look into but i got to tell you a lot of current and former law enforcement officials are saying this is pressure by the president who is under investigation, george. >> pretty unprecedented, dan abrams, and there's not any evidence in the public domain that anything inappropriate happened here. >> there is not a scintilla of evidence that this was for political purposes which is the critical question here. and if it had been for political purposes why not disclose it in 2016 when it could have actually hurt donald trump politically for political purposes? the other thing that's interesting to me is, the president is now reading this "new york times" report basing this tweet on "the n

. >> let's get into that with dan abrams now.do know the resignation is taking effect at the end of the day but the manhattan's d.a. office is now investigating. what kind of trouble could he face? >> well, he could face criminal trouble. there are three possible crimes here, right, based on the reporting that ronan and jane mayer did. you have the possibility of an assault based on the slapping. you've got the choking is a possibility as a separate crime and the threats. also, a possible harassment crime so you've got -- >> all within the statute of limitations at this point? >> well, for a misdemeanor, it would be within two years. for a felony it would be within five years. most people believe that, based on the facts as laid out here, this would likely be a high-level misdemeanor which would mean it would have to be done within two years but i think that most of the allegations that ronan lays out occurred within the two-year time frame but it means they'd have to move quickly. >> how about these threats to use his office in

let's bring in our chief legal analyst, dan abrams.ood morning, dan. >> good morning. >> as we heard ronan say a second ago, very serious charges here. in addition to the testimony what other evidence could prosecutors produce? >> i think there will be two areas. number one is what did they say, what did she say contemporaneously. was there anything she told friends at the time or anyone else, any notes she took. those are the sorts of things that can be very helpful in bolstering an accuser's case. the other thing is going to be how many other women are allowed to testify. the question we've been talking about in connection with the bill cosby case. is a judge going to say this is similar enough conduct to say this is effectively his m.o. and, therefore, admit the testimony of other women who aren't even necessarily the subject of this case. >> and this alleged incident happened in 2004. but no statute of limitations problem. >> that's right right because in new york state they changed the law in 2006 to say no statute of limitations

here is what abc legal analyst dan abrams said on gma this morning about possible time weinstein might serve if he's convicted. >> he could face up to 25 years in prison. i think he's convicted, he will serve time. >> weinstein's lawyers have said allegations he forced himself on women are false. we'll see what happens. >>> b.a.r.t. officials finally made their decision. they will not be expanding the dublin-pleasanton line to livermore any time soon. the board voted against several proposals after hours of heated debate. dozens of people living in the skrushs told their commuter horror stories. others want the money spent elsewhere. >> i have to leave home at 5:00 to be sure i'm not late. 7:00 start. i'm only 35 miles. >> the board will not revisit the issue until the end of june. that's when a separate transit entity will take over future expansion plans. >>> san jose police are asking for potential victims to come forward after accusations a kindergarten teacher inappropriately touched a 9-year-old student. 61-year-old eduard frerking was arrested. if anyone has more information, co

this morning on gma, abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams says giuliani's admission proves that robert already knows about this. >> they know in particular after the raid of michael cohen that mueller knows exactly what happened with that payment. they also know that mueller knows why donald trump fired james comey. they talked to a lot of people who were there at the time. i think at this point they're saying let's get this out there. so when it comes out later, just as chris says, where it's not going to be a surprise, not going to be news, let's just put as much out there as possible. >> giuliani claims the payment was perfect lich legal. >>> we want to show you president trump's twitter page this morning. in a tweet storm he said the agreement with stormy daniels was to stop her affair accusations. the president also said he intends to pursue damages against stormy daniels. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. 49 in daly city, 50 in pacifica and half moon bay. low to mid 50s on the other side of the peninsula, 52 in belmont, menlo park and fos

this morning on gma, dan abrams says giuliani's admission proves the president's legal team that robert mueller already knows this. >> they know in particular after the raid of michael cohen that mueller knows exactly what happened with that payment. they also know that mueller knows why donald trump fired james comey. they've talked to a lot of people who were there at the time. i think at this point they're saying let's get this out there. when it comes out later, just as chris says, where it's not going to be a surprise, not going to be news, let's put as much out there as possible. >> giuliani claims that the payment was perfectly legal. >>> prs is responding to what giuliani said. he said the agreement with stormy danielss was to stop her affair accusations. he says he intends to pursue damages against stormy daniels. >>> you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. let's start anywhere we have danville at 48. everybody else around 50 to 52 degrees. got the same temperature at hayward, san carlos, a little warmer in mountain view. cooler in pacifica. 51

. >> we asked former prosecutor nancy grace and abc chief legal analyst dan abrams to discuss the caseion whether words can kill? is that what it is? >> oh, this was more than words. much more than words. she researched modes of death. she said, "you could hang yourself. you could put a plastic bag over your head. you could shoot yourself in the head." >> and the reason that she did that is because he asked her for help. he's the one who drew her into this thing from the beginning. >> how would you describe this relationship between these two young people? >> tragic. that's how i would describe it. it was conrad roy laying a lot of his baggage on michelle carter, and he consistently bombarded her with his suicidal thinking. >> i don't think that she helped him kill himself. i think she forced him to kill himself. >> you think she is the cause of his death? >> mm-hmm. yeah. i think if it wasn't for her, he'd still be here. >> the text messages may sound horrible, but are they are a crime? prosecutors say yes. and six months after conrad roy's death, a grand jury agrees that michelle car

. >>> a lot to talk about with dan abrams and chris christie.ederal prosecutor before serving as governor of new jersey and, chris, let me begin with you. rudy giuliani asked about the dossier. he responds talking about stormy daniels but this is strategy. >> of course, there is. there is an old saying hang a lantern on your problems. he knows there's been different stories told about this payment and how it was made -- >> not just different stories. the president said he knew nothing about it. >> those are different stories. rudy has to clean it up. that's what lawyers are hired to do. he puts it out rather than having some reporter give breaking news that the president reimbursed it, so it's a typical -- it's a typical thing to do and it wasn't surprising at all. >> but it also shows you that they know mueller knows this. they know in particular after the raid of michael cohen that mueller knows exactly what happened with that payment. they also know that mueller knows why donald trump fired james comey. they talked to a lot of people who were

. >> thank you, linsey and our chief legal analyst dan abrams is here now. by the story. what's your take? >> look, let's separate this out journalistically from legally. let's start with it journalistically. you have the two named alleged victims in the story having issues with their account. number one person coming forward and saying, look, i didn't have any concerns about the way he was treating me and the second one is the author herself who claims that that piece of tape there where he says i wish i was there was somehow sexual or inappropriate, and then you put it into the context and it sounds like he's talking about michael caine's comment. so, those are two legitimate journalistic concerns that i'm surprised that cnn is so sort of cavalierly dismissing and simply saying, we're standing by the story. no changes are appropriate. >> something like that. okay. the legal aspect now. >> all right, much tougher issue here. there to be able to sue here, to be able to win a lawsuit, they'd have to be able to prove that the writer knew or should have known t

brian: i watched you yesterday spar with dan abrams. i felt i was in my first class ever.to talk today. >> thank you. brian: you don't have an agenda and going to bat for the president. >> no. brian: you don't see any criminal intent or action here and you are getting really concerned for the country. >> yes. and that's why from day one i said no special counsel, no finger pointing. no criminal prosecution. let's have an independent, nonpartisan commission looking into this election. this election was not the finest hour. whether there were infiltrators or spies put into the republican camp. whether strzok did have a hatred, an insurance policy. whether there was any cooperation with any russian sources. we need to get to the truth. and the only way to get to the truth is an independent 9/11 type commission. and we have to prevent it from happening in the future. this election is a model of what should not happen in the future. and a special counsel is the worst way of getting to the truth. steve: isn't there a congressional oversight right now? i know there are a number o