News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Personal purposes. On the other hand, if it came out of a Donald Trump Trust fund, which i understand weisselberg also manages, it might not be any kind of a financial tax crime. So hes somebody who has very, very Important Information which could be helpful to the prosecutors. Not only in the cohen case but if they want to dig deeper into the Trump Organization. And weisselbergs cooperation seems to be limited to the cohen probe. What would prosecutors need to call weisselberg back and ask him to provide information about other potential crimes . Well, i think you know, what always happens in these federal investigations, and we saw it in the manafort case, when they start looking at a particular issue, sometimes they stumble across other things that turn out to be criminal in nature. Thats, i think, one of the reasons why the president is probably as upset as he has been sounding this week. Once they start looking into the
cabinet or acting attorney general rod rosenstein, who might even be worse than sessions in president trump s mind. for the first time yesterday, lindsey graham came forward and said, this isn t a sustainable situation. we re open to confirming somebody else after the midterms. and chuck grassley, the current chairman of the judiciary committee who runs the schedule about confirmation hearings for new attorney generals, echoed that. bob corker said this is pretty much inevitable after the midterms. so the wall of support sessions has had among his former colleagues on capitol hill seems to be crumbling, and republicans on the hill view it as an ine inevitability. jeff sessions has been opposing this criminal justice reform that chuck grassley wants really badly. and chuck grassley is mad. he thinks he got sessions confirmed, he s helped protect him, and sessions is still in the way of his major legislative initiative. i think there s some of that