money, who else at the trump organization was involved, these are all presumably questions that federal prosecutors got the answers to in exchange for giving mr. weisselberg immunity. and there s one other thing to keep in mind with all of this news today, that this top executive at the trump organization, essentially donald trump s right-hand officer at his business, has been given immunity by federal prosecutors. and it s this, david pecker, this guy, the national enquirer chief who was the keeper of donald trump s tabloid secrets, well, he s flipped and given information to prosecutors. michael cohen, the keeper of donald trump s personal secrets, he s pleaded guilty to crimes he says he committed with trump and now allen weisselberg, the keeper of donald trump s financial and business secrets, he s been given immunity. donald trump is running out of hiding places. the other two executives who run the trump organization with allen weisselberg and who run
especially in the trump era when everything can go haywire in the few seconds it takes to type out a tweet. one thing has stayed constant for much of president trump s administration, that is his displeasure with attorney general jeff sessions. for a full 18 months, ever since sessions recused himself from the russia probe, the president has been complaining about his attorney general, threatening to fire him. somehow jeff sessions has hung on through all of that but today feels like a newly dangerous moment for the embattled ag. it started as do so many things related to donald trump with a tweet storm early this morning. quoting sessions himself, trump writes, department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. jeff, this is great. what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the other side, including deleted e-mails, comey lies and leaks, mueller conflicts, mccabe, strzok, page or open the
yeah, illegal on so many different fronts now just in this week alone that has unfolded as adam just talked about, this conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations and potential impeachment for that. but the things happening in the state of new york i find interesting. this attorney general s civil suit involving the trump foundation which she has referred to for a criminal tax investigation. that suggests that has some legs. a case we prosecuted in michigan against the former mayor of detroit was similar using a charitable foundation as a personal slush fund. that can be charged as wire fraud, tax charges so i think president trump finds himself a target of criminal investigation on many fronts. talk about that. there s donald trump, there s the trump organization, the trust which we discussed earlier which he handed over to his sons and allen weisselberg and there
says he committed with trump and now allen weisselberg, the keeper of donald trump s financial and business secrets, he s been given immunity. donald trump is running out of hiding places. the other two executives who run the trump organization with allen weisselberg and who run the trump trust from which allen weisselberg ordered the cohen reimbursements be paid, they re both named trump. where are prosecutors going to go next? joining us now is david fahrenthold, washington post reporter, winner of a pulitzer prize for his coverage of the workings of the trump foundation and organization. david, great to have you with us. thank you for being with us. thank you for your reporting. i don t know if we can overstate how important allen weisselberg is to the trump organization to the trump foundation and donald trump. it s a name we didn t know until a few weeks ago from the tape with michael cohen, but this guy has been with donald trump from
the first loopty loop came over the weekend. top trump aide gives mueller coveted details. white house counsel strategy einvolved into survival tactic. monday trouble came in the form of the president s long time personal lawyer, loans inquiry may soon put michael cohen in a bind. that was a generation ago. on tuesday, wow, the president s campaign chairman paul manafort was convicted of eight criminal felonies, he s facing a decade in prison with another trial ahead. on any other day, that story would have had the front page all to itself. but look over to the left of your screen. it was pushed to the side in the relatively humble font by this pleading guilty, cohen implicates president. the president he s personal lawyer saying he committed eight different felonies with two of those felonies, quote, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. we know that to be donald trump. there is reason this headline is in all caps. there s a reason it stretches