Means unlike public companies, the books arent out there for the public to see. When federal prosecutors get someone to talk about them and grant them immunity, they can see all of it. Jeff toobin, thank you. We are staying all over this Breaking News. Allen weisselberg granted immunity to talk and testify in front of a federal grand jury. We continue our coverage with at this hour right now. This is cnn Breaking News. Hello. Im ryan nobles in today for kate bolduan. We begin with Breaking News. What could be a disastrous development for President Trump. Sources telling cnn that federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Allen Weisselberg, the longtime cfo for the Trump Organization and someone who has been with the company for decades. Kara is here to explain. This information just coming in. Explain to us what you are reporting. The Wall Street Journal is
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bickering among the members of congress and private interviews. you don t see any of that. the private ones always produce better results. and this morning on the president s favorite network, it fell to fox news legal expert andrew napolitano to point out the republicans really don t have much of a case this time around. i read the house rules. okay. and as frustrating as it may be to have these hearings going on behind closed doors, the hearings over which congressman schiff is presiding, they are consistent with the rules. when were the rules written? last in january of 2015. who signed them? john boehner. who enacted them? a republican yoemajority. the rules say this level of inqui inquiry, this initial level of inqui inquiry, can be done in secret. we re also tracking, let s not forget, the situation in syria, where there are continued reports tonight of fighting 24 hours after our president declared a permanent cease-fire.
testimony and documents. the opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that mr. trump is using the justice department to go after his perceived enemies. nbc news tonight has confirmed this times report and tonight, james clapper, the former director of national intelligence, who oversaw the launch of this very russia investigation, reacted to this news on cnn. presumably, i i guess i m one of those under investigation. i found the timing interesting given the increasing heat around the impeachment inquiry. as you remember, during the russia investigation, the president and his allies made every effort to discredit it. that goes on to this day. there s a similar effort now under way with the house democrats impeachment investigation. republicans in congress have chosen not to focus on defending the president s actions regarding ukraine on that phone call. instead, they re attack bing the process of the inquiry.
sere yeah the president tells the kurds on their own after our pullout to go where the oil is because that, after all, will be protected by the u.s. military. plus someone may need to explain to trump what pat robertson just said about him. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday night. well, good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,008 of the trump administration has brought us breaking news yet again tonight. the new york times reports that justice department has opened a criminal inquiry into its own russia investigation. here s how it works. the times reports it this way. justice department officials have shifted an administrative review of the russia investigation closely overseen by attorney general william barr to a criminal inquiry. the move gives the prosecutor running it, john durham, lthe power to mesubpoena for witness
the process they followed during the benghazi hearings when hillary clinton was the takedown target. today, one of trump s fiercest allies, senate judiciary chair lindsey graham, introduced a resolution co-sponsoring by mitch mcconnell accusing the house democrats, again, those in the other chamber, of conducting a secret and unfair inquiry meant to embarrass this president. they ve created a process in the intel committee that s behind closed doors, doesn t provide access to the president s accuser, shuts republicans out for all practical purposes, and is an unworthy substitute for the way you need to do it, is at its core un-american. late today, one member of the house intel committee had this response. my message to senator graham is you stay in your lane. it seems as though especially after the stunt yesterday of the