i spoke with new york state's attorney general eric schneiderman, a man who has been battling trump inourt long before he became president. attorney general schneiderman, on december 12th of last year, the justice department requested of the united states bureau of census that they add the question of citizenship to the census application. and you've taken the lead in really taking legal action to stop that. why? i mean, a lot of people are saying, if people are here illegally, we should know who they are and distinguish them from others. why is that not a sound argument? >> so this is a direct assault on the constitution. article one of the constitution requires that there be a full count, an actual enumeration of every person here. not voters, because they count children, prisoners, immigrants. >> so the constitution does not say they have to be legal citizens that they need to have account of everyone here. >> the opposite. it says you must count everyone, regardless of their immigration status and this was adjusted by the 14th amendment to get rid of the infamous three-fifth clause

, and you won't have to worry about do you trust donald trump, you won't have to worry about eric schneiderman. you don't have to worry about anything of these things. full immunity. i can't imagine michael cohen given his family, given the expenses involved and given the prospect of one small slip leading to jail time, i just can't imagine michael cohen is not going to make that deal. >> and harry, one more dilemma involved with the party. pardon. the second issued to the president, if he can come up with it than michael cohen has no more fifth amendment rights with robert mueller and any other investigators investigating donald trump. they pull him into a grand jury, he cannot plead the fifth amendment. he has to answer every question. because he can no longer self-incriminate because he has been absolved of that possibility in the federal courts. >> that's exactly right. probably in that context he is not so forthcoming, but he has to tell the truth. we've been hearing all analogies of trump as a mob family, et cetera. what is happening to cohen right now is a lot like sammy the bull situat

new york's leftist attorney general eric schneiderman leading the suit.e claims the question will undermine the question of the population count and is anti-immigrant. california's attorney general filed a separate but similar lawsuit. huntington beach is the latest to join the revolt against california's sanctuary policies. they voted to challenge the state on its constitutional overreach. lossal any toes started the -- los alamitos started the challenge. mission viejo has followed suit. the chamber of commerce says it's unappropriate for government officials to use their position to attack an american company. tell that to teddy roosevelt. the chamber of commerce attacks elected officials who oppose the policies of the chamber commerce and they do so without apology, and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars in each cycle doing so. president trump taking command and border security. we take it up with a top immigration analyst and a mayor who is fighting back. they join me here next. stay with us. lou: joining us now, the executive director for the

eric schneiderman the new york state attorney general is seeking more transparency from thirteen crypto currency trading exchanges including coyne based the popular california based crypto trading venue schneiderman said in a statement that too often consumers don't have the basic facts they need to assess the fairness integrity and security of these trading platforms new york state was an early regulator of crypto currency is one of the first if not the first and here discussed this in other crypto news as jeffrey tucker the director of the editorial director rather of the american institute for economic research jeffrey thank you for being here i almost messed up on your name i know i did it one time all apologize from months ago i think i said american enterprise institute apologize for that we know who you're with and thank you for being with us what do you make of a. call for more information from these currency exchanges jeffery or i think i think a lot of the expanse of new york regulations people should be worried you know the last time new york tend to do this to regulate krypt

our current attorney general, eric schneiderman is chomping at the bit to be able to prosecute the president of the united states out of the same predicate acts that the special counsel is looking at them. presently under new york state law it is not allowed to to go after prosecute contemporaneously with the federal government. that is viewed under new york state law as double jeopardy, even though in other states it is not. of he is seeking to try to new york state law. we have the republican senate by one vote which is preventing that. he is desperately trying to put his 900 lawyers in the department of law out to an investigation of the president and the prosecution of him. irrespective whatever happens with the federal investigation. is there anything we can do, either through nag or through some other mechanism to try and bring justice on this? >> well, nothing, through nag, that is bipartisan, educational, however it sounds like you would like to run for attorney general of new york. [laughter]. and will be soliciting contributions here. and that's really, in terms of, you know, unles

for bitcoin, following the news that came out a couple hours ago, new york attorney general eric schneidermanoking to crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges. 13 of them including coin bait, some of the popular ones used to trade virtual currencies like bitcoin. sniderman sent platforms, digital trust was started by the winklevoss twins, bit stamp and payward. as we've been watching it, this was nearly $20,000 per bitcoin at the end of december, right now at $7880 to buy one bitcoin. charlie, first it was the sec, you wrote that story that the sec was interested in looking into the bad actor. >> i said it was a wave of enforcement actions. we should point out this is not an enforcement action, this is beginning of investigation he announced subpoenas or -- liz: letters. >> letters, tell us about your operations. problem for bitcoin is this. and i think the reason why it's trading off, the new york attorney general has something known as the martin act, a law that allows new york attorney general to bring fraud charges against a target where the evidence or evidence of intent to defraud is much

meanwhile the new york state attorney general eric schneiderman is trying to close a loophole to prevent him from prosecuting cohen on state charges if he's pardoned at the federal level. would you support that effort? >> i think that persons who commit crimes should be held accountable. and if the president ends up pardoning people who have done his dirty work, and there is a means by which a state court to bring an action, they certainly have every right to do so. >> congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> up next, president trump's early concern about michael flynn's judgment. we're learning what he said to james comey, the fired fbi director, about the national security adviser and also he wound up firing. what does it take to make digital transformation actually happen? do you just flip a switch... and presto your business is magically transformed? not quite. it takes a ground-breaking company like dell technologies. a family of seven technology leaders working behind the scenes to make the impossible... reality. for instance, we're helping to give c

but a press secretary for the new york attorney general eric schneiderman said in a statement -- "ourice played no role in the nypd's decision to release partial footage concerning the vassell case last week, and we have not objected to the nypd's release of video footage of the officers." eric vassell, if you spoke to the mayor? >> yes. i told the mayor i needed justice to be served. with the mayor is stirring -- with the mayor is saying, they won't release any video of the officers. i say that is a double standard because video and pictures of my and sent allleased across the world. therefore, just like they released my son's pictures and videos across the world, they should release every video and action of the police because in a further statement, they say he pointed the thing at them. a picture is worth a thousand words. if he did have an object in his hand, they should show him pointing that object at the police. that is the picture i'm looking for. amy: they have only shown him in this menacing position holding this bar, but there is obviously, clearly, commercial area, lots o

what we saw today was the new york attorney general, eric schneiderman moving to try and ensure that he could continue any investigations, even if the president were to try to pardon people in this, so that people could be held to account for what they had done. i think that's right. this cannot just completely end. there are also federal statutes that would prevent the destruction of evidence. so it would be difficult to make the whole thing go away. >> we're going to squeeze in a break here. >>> james comey has spent the week warming up for the big interview here tomorrow night with rachel maddow, and today he said he didn't leave the republican party, the republican party left him. ♪ ♪ no matter when you retire, your income doesn't have to. see how lincoln can help ensure you still have income every month of your retirement, guaranteed, at lincolnfinancial.com. gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get

that's not to state new york state and eric schneiderman aren't putting things in process to move forward state. >> don't you have bad memory to play with? it seems once you're pardoned, you stop remembering. >> yes, but there are ways for prosecutors to get at the old, i don't remember line. i mean, that can only get you so far. i don't think that a pardon -- politically, obviously, a pardon is going to set off alarm bells there. legally speaking, a pardon isn't going to help michael cohen either. again, there are taxi medallion issues here, real estate issues. those are state crimes, new york state crimes that i bet the sdny is being careful about not charging michael cohen with at this time. looking forward down the road to the possibility of a federal presidential pardon. >> thank you so much, carolyn polisi. please come back. with the midterm elections fast approaching, can democrats we sis talking about impeachment? he may rev up the base. he certainly will. is it smart politics for this november's election? you're watching "hardball." ♪ ♪ (baby crying) ♪ ♪ don't juggle your home li

but a press secretary for the new york attorney general eric schneiderman said in a statement -- "ourice played no role in the nypd's decision to release partial footage concerning the vassell case last week, and we have not objected to the nypd's release of video footage of the officers." eric vassell, if you spoke to the mayor? >> yes. i told the mayor i needed justice to be served. with the mayor is stirring -- with the mayor is saying, they won't release any video of the officers. i say that is a double standard because video and pictures of my and sent allleased across the world. therefore, just like they released my son's pictures and videos across the world, they should release every video and action of the police because in a further statement, they say he pointed the thing at them. a picture is worth a thousand words. if he did have an object in his hand, they should show him pointing that object at the police. that is the picture i'm looking for. amy: they have only shown him in this menacing position holding this bar, but there is obviously, clearly, commercial area, lots o

eric schneiderman wrote a letter to new york lawmakers urging state lawmakers to close new york's double jeopardy loophole to. to prevent the president from avoiding double jeopardy. >> it only applies as double jeopardy would once somebody has stood trial. now, sneiderma knows better. jennifer probably knows better being from from new york. my sense of it is, it comes into play only when somebody is first put in jeopardy in the federal system. but if that happens, it would apply to many of the crimes the vet financial crimes that it looks as if cohen, manafort and others are going to have to stand try for. >> so it attach as soon as someone pleads guilty or a jury is sworn in a trial. so flynn. >> you're saying is double jeopardy does. >> correct. so flynn, he's already pled, gates has already pled. for them if they're pardoned by the president, then the new york double jeopardy statute would the prohibit sneiderma or any other new york prosecutor from bringing charges against them. >> this would rectify that in view of sneiderma. >> it would. new york is along with about half the state

what we saw today was the new york attorney general, eric schneiderman moving to try and ensure thatnvestigations, even if the president were to try to pardon people in this, so that people could be held to account for what they had done. i think that's right. this cannot just completely end. there are also federal statutes that would prevent the destruction of evidence. so it would be difficult to make the whole thing go away. >> we're going to squeeze in a break here. >>> james comey has spent the week warming up for the big interview here tomorrow night with rachel maddow, and today he said he didn't leave the republican party, the republican party left him. how do you chase what you love with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis? do what i did. ask your doctor about humira. it's proven to help relieve pain and protect joints from further irreversible damage in many adults. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira has been clinically studied for over 20 years. humira can lower your ability to fight

michael cohen for any federal crimes but then there's the question of my guess is attorney general eric schneiderman who is a state prosecutor in new york the state attorney general my guess is he'll be looking at whether there are also care charges that he could level against michael cohen the president cannot pardon michael cohen for state charges only federal charges so michael cohen is facing a world of hurt and this also means that mr trump is going to need yet another lawyer because when your lawyer is now being investigated and needs his own lawyer then you need a whole nother set of lawyers and mr trump as we've also seen has had a lot of trouble coming up with lawyers lawyers that the top lawyers in the country have been turning him down left right and center both not wanting to be tarnished by mr trump feeling like he doesn't listen to legal counsel that's why his last lawyer john dowd left and then there's also the issue of apparently he doesn't really pay his legal bills so for many reasons mr trump is currently without very much counsel melanie sloan thank you. in this case you go ahead

new york's attorney general eric schneiderman, along with lawmakers and civil rights groups, called it an affront to the constitution. >> this is really just an effort to punish places like new york thatelcome immigrants, that accommodating to immigrants and llbrace the american tradition of open arms for so we stand to lose money, because it determines congressional representation, and the electoral college. we stand to lose political representation. >> woodruff: california filed a separate suit last week. striking teachers closed a o numbschool districts across oklahoma for a second rsy. thousands of educand supporters descended on the state capitol. they're demanding increased funding for public schools. the state's largest teachers union says the walkout will continue tomorrow. president trump is again defending the conservative sinclair broadcast group. the company has been criticized for having anchors read a message that voices concern about "fake news." today, mr. trump tweeted: "the fake news networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased agenda, are worried about the c

this is a -- a mythology has arisen around particularly eric schneiderman the attorney general of nework state, that he could take over the investigation if robert mueller is fired or if that investigation is somehow shut down. i don't buy it at all. new york state doesn't have the resources, it doesn't have the laws, the criminal laws, there's a reason why new york state's attorney general files very few criminal cases, almost all criminal cases in new york state are filed by district attorneys or the u.s. attorney's office. there are also laws regarding double jeopardy that might interfere with an effort to prosecute. >> so you would have to do a lot of legislative change. there's this talk that there's a bill flying it ways through. oddly enough i haven't heard a thing, my source is pretty good here. >> your source is good in new york state and ain't happening any time soon. >> alisyn? >> lebron james refusing to lose. cleveland tying its series with the indiana pacers. the bleacher report next. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. liber

eric schneiderman has sent letters to 13 cryptocurrency exchanges including coinbase and gemini about they protect the customer assets. i want to bring in michael. thank you for joining us. that youall, i know guys are trying to differential yourselves by being decentralized. the new york what attorney general is focusing on, it was to think they were inquired about, it was custody and transparency. these are the changes are essentially holding your funds and transparency because you don't really know what is happening behind the scenes of any of the other exchanges. essentially operating as unregulated bank accounts. joe: you obviously don't have to do with the issue of unregulated bank accounts. you're not holding anything that is money in the traditional sense. some of the things that people are concerned about with the currency exchanges are trades, other things where people try to just drop the price. do you have mechanisms in place to what those things? that we hado think those in place. i think regulators will look at their swap and be very happy with it. and be very happy with

of course these pardons at the end of the day probably won't mean a thing because you'll have eric schneidermanew york attorney general's office taking whatever the southern district of new york finds and whatever bob mueller finds and prosecuting them at the state level. >> that raid carried out by the southern district and the fbi on michael cohen a couple weeks ago, his office, his hotel room, his home clearly rattled the president of the united states and got him to tweeting because he consumes media, as we all know, and he's hearing the whispers or the shouts, actually that michael cohen, his trusted attorney, his trusted ally, his trusted fixer could be compelled when faced with the possibility of jail time and not seeing his two children for a very long time to flip on the president. now it may not be as easy as some people say it is because he can invoke attorney/client privilege unless he's concealing crimes, of course, but the president obviously believes and is signaling to michael cohen, listen, dude, don't do this, you've been loyal to me all along, time to finish the job, don't fl

investigation of donald trump and then you have, of course, a democrat conducting an investigation, eric schneidermanattorney general. are these investigations metastasizing to such a degree that a firing of bob mueller may bring immediate rebuke from the senate but also won't stop these investigations because they're multilayered now. >> i think we have all discussed not only the president's tweet in just the past few minutes but what the president said yesterday after watching on cable a bunch of the reports of the not a break in but the raid or the executing of the search warrant on mr. cohen. here's what i thought was interesting about what the president said. he has often in the past called the mueller and events around it a witch-hunt. but yesterday he think in a serious way upped the rhetorical ante by saying this "is an attack on our country, it is an attack on what we stand for." those are fighting words and those are words that suggest he's spinning out in his interpretation of what's going on here a bit. to me it sounds like a man who will have to be talked down over the next few days, tal

considering two cryptocurrency exchanges just as he's doing that eric schneider man has begun to scruitinize cryptocurrency exchanges. the schneiderman's not a crackdown just basically looking at this and provide information for investors but all this scrutiny is really having an impact on the cryptocurrency business and the sec scrutiny has stopped from what i understand completely stopped the ico business in the u.s. and that is a big story. liz: well lagarde says do not ruin this early stage new technology. charlie: well the sec would say it's not ruining it, it's helping because a lot of these are frauds. that's their side. liz: saving investors from themselves charlie thank you very much. charlie: who else will save them liz: we are six minutes away trying to tell charlie the worst point of this hour at least we were down 140 points but we are fighting back now we've cut those losses in half, disruption , it's a major business trend in 2018. our countdown closer gives us some names on how you can profit from all kinds of disruption, whether it's trade wars, or hurricanes. jeff and susan are heading into retirement. and market vo

eric snyderer man, he's going -- >> he and donald trump have a complicated history. >> complicated is a nice thing to say. >> long time add varies. i think that schneiderman would happy i will take the ball and run with it. >> donald trump would say i'm doing this on behalf of the country. somebody has to take a stand. >> you're not listening. it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. he's still going to do it. >> the genius of mueller is to have put roots down from bits of this investigation into other jurisdictions and thereby protecting the investigation for the american people. he has known all along that donald trump wanted to fire him and the prospect might come even though this would be politically catastrophic potentially for the white house where he would go ahead and pull the trigger and that's why he has done exactly what he has done. >> by the way -- >> willie -- >> willie, the guys that have done deals right now, the last person that wants this to happen is michael flynn because if mueller goes away and the investigation -- which it won't, but if it did, he would have the attorney general of pennsylvania bringing up on kidnapping charges, the kus