The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Reporter this Time Sessions surprisingly jabbed back saying in a statement while im Attorney General the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by Political Considerations. This is a little bit of a celebration meeting. Reporter earlier in the day the president tried to turn away from the russia probe to celebrate his record until he could hear the questions about the criminal records about his former advisers. President didnt say whether he would pardon his now convicted former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Mr. Trump focussed his fury on his former attorney Michael Cohen. The president tried to say cohens crimes werent actually crimes. He pled to two counts that arent a crime. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those counts arent a crime. They werent Campaign Finance. Reporter here is the
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Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Simply the fact that this strategy on the part of mueller and the other district of new york prosecutors may be working right now. One interesting question will be to what extent will there be information relating to state law charges against some of these people and that is legally significant because the president s pardon power does not extend to state law crimes. Harris all right, what you have seen with cohen and manafort and perhaps pecker and allen weisselberg, the cases, they have struck deals for immunity, you wouldnt imagine they would go anywhere legally. If the president wanted to pardon anyone, we are still within the zone with the previous men. State law doesnt tend to change that. As we look ahead in all of this, the president , though, does have something to consider as he is being asked
Welcome to the lead. Im erica hill in for jake tapper. We begin with the poll tiblitic. Another huge blow to President Trump. His financial gatekeeper Allen Weisselberg granted immunity, the highest ranking executive at the Trump Organization who isnt named trump. One source telling Cnn Weisselberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried. He is mention and the Inthat Moux Cohen trump tape. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all the info regarding our friend david. You know . So that im going to do that right away. I have come up to spoken to me. Spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with so where are we . With the funding. The news after trump lashed
recording of last month of a conversation with trump two months before the 2016 president ial election about payments to former playboy model karen mcdougall. And ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set it up with where are we funding. Reporter another person on the tape . National en