let's bring back sol wisenberg and alan dershowitz to react. sol, anything jump out at you that the mayor said? >> what jumps out at me and one way is what is not being said. of course i haven't heard the whole tape, as the mayor points out. in all this conversation about did he say cash or didn't he say cash, my question is why is he even discussing buying the former playmate's story if it is not true, which he has said it isn't true. why would you care? why would you want to buy it? let's look at the big picture. professor is right, it's not a crime, but i think it is the elephant in the room. >> laura: i would say, sol, businesses settle things in different ways all the time because well-known people are targeted and sued because people know you will settle. that goes right to the settlement. they probably just wanted -- i don't know. i am just guessing. professor dershowitz, you deal with this all the time. people want to get stuff off their plate. if we can put it that way, let's put it away. how do we do it? come up with different strategi

let's go to sol wisenberg. the left wants the republicans to go into this fight without offering any defense of this judicial nominee. they have made this about legislating from the bench because that's what they want the court to do. they want the court to legislate new rights into the constitution that the framers never intended. richard blumenthal, i want to share something with you that he said today. i could not believe what i was hearing. the snarly way he said it. >> judge kavanaugh, you don't belong in this building as a justice. my colleagues should be a "no" on this nominee unless judge kavanaugh specifically commits that he will recuse himself on any issues that involve president trump's personal financial dealings or the special counsel. >> laura: okay, sol. explain that one for us. >> there's absolutely no basis for it. there is no basis in ethics or history for the concept that you can't rule on a case involving a president if he happened to have appointed you. rehnquist, if you recall, recused hi

sol wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel during whitewater.arl, i had to interrupt you before we broke were commercial. what is your reaction this "new york times" report? it doesn't really surprise me because brennan was onto those russia behind the meddling six months earlier, from what i could tell. it doesn't really surprise me that the president would be briefed on it. >> it doesn't surprise me either. frankly, remember early in the administration, i think the president had a line that i wish to used on monday, wages, he said early and has termed that of course he would like to know if anybody modeled in his election because he would like to make sure it would stop. i wish the president had that going on monday. this latest report doesn't surprise me. what did surprise me was the ability of the mueller investigation and our government cyber forensic to be able to identify the specific sectors, 12 actors, he mentioned those guys in the office and the dr you, and going online and seeing their names and asking the question, how could they te

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