Well, now it's time for our Bloomberg Law Report. Let's get to the legal stories we're watching this morning with Steve Potus in the Bloomberg Washington Newsroom. More Republicans from high tax states are getting comfortable with a compromise on state and local tax deductions. New Jersey Republican Tom MacArthur says the plan would preserve the federal income tax break
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at Bloomberg law dot com. Now another legal news, Let's take a look at an email written by former Trump campaign advisor George Popidapolo. He's now a cooperating government witness and special counsel Robert Mueller's probe on Russian meddling in the US election. That email from Papadopolis indicates that top Trump campaign officials agreed to a pre election meeting with
representatives of Vladimir Putin. For more on this story, Bloomberg, lahst jam Grosso, and Michael Best speak with Jed Sugarman, a professor at Fordham University Law School, and Ryan Goodman, a professor at n y U School of Law. Ryan tell us about what we know about this email that
Papadopolis sent when he was communicating with the Russians. Right. So, the email, as reported by Bloomberg is quite important because it says at least Papadopolis is representing to the Russians that he has the go ahead from the Trump campaign to organize a meeting with Russian officials. And then he specifically says that that would include the campaign manager, who at the time is Paul all Metaphord. So that starts
to link things together. If indeed he was genuinely representing kind of a green light from the campaign, that would be an important revelation in all of this, Jed. The FBI says, this affidavit is being submitted for the limited purpose of establishing probable cause for a criminal complaint. It does not set forth every fact learned in the course of this investigation. So could it be that Mueller is
keeping some things close to the vest. I think it's clear that Mueller is is keeping a lot close to the vest. Let's keep in mind that what this plea agreement does is it absolutely only sets forth um some some details and acknowledges the existence of some emails and only summarizes emails or even just notes what the subject header of those emails is. We don't we haven't seen as a matter of the public, what is in this long chain of emails dating from March all the way
through June and July. UM. And it's it's clear that the pop Pidopolis is cooperating with Mueller. I think the best person to address how Papadopoulis got this wrote an email about his approval, is Papadopoulis himself, whether it's in further emails or at some point he is going to have um some testimony. Uh. And so that's what really should be UM explosive and would have the Trump insiders
the most worried. That's Jed Sugarman, our professor at Fordham University Law School, and Ryan Goodman, a professor at n y U School of Law, speaking at the Bloomberg's at June Grosso and Michael Best. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio, and find more legal news at bloomberg law dot com. Attorneys a fun, exceptional legal research and business development tools there as well. Visit Bloomberg Law dot com for more information