it all comes down to a sentence that he said to me, and i remember the moment, and i called my law partner to say, i think this is for real. and that was, he recognizes donald trump as president, was a danger to his family and to the country. and he emphasized as president what he had done before trump became president, because he never imagined he would be elected president. he felt shame about and he articulated that. but the notion that this man, that he did so much bad things for and defended so many bad things, was now president of the united states showing the mental instability that scared him regarding the safety and welfare, not just of his family, but the country, to me was the pivotal moment on the telephone that i thought this is for real. the count that mr. cohen pled guilty to last, lying to congress about the trump tower moscow project, he received a
welcome to the lead. i m 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 isn t 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 i m 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
with the russians to help the trump team. and he even was asking the trump campaign what he should say when he was over there in russia. and just like george papadopoulos, he was trying to arrange a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. now this is a theme that we ve seen throughout the campaign team. not just papadopoulos. remember, felix seder back in december 2016 is telling michael cohen if we can get donald trump and putin together, we can engineer this and make our boy president there is a theme of trying to get dirt on hillary clinton, trying to connect donald trump and putin. and of course failing to disclose it to anyone. there is a reporting today saying there is a bit of a split in the diplomatic corps about the president s upcoming meeting on the side lanes of a summit with vladimir putin. they re scheduled to meet face-to-face. obviously there are some who feel that obviously this is a nation that we have a lot of different issues with. we have to talk to them
which he called recep tayyip erdogan chief antagonist, a muslim cleric living in exile in pennsylvania who erdogan blames for last year s failed coup. a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news s ken dilanian that in the weeks after trump was inaugurated, they were asked to extradite guillen. it s not clear whether the request came from flynn. i m joined by the national security reporter who has been doing some amazing report thong story. let s start with that we learn head got half a million dollars to represent turkish interests through an intermediary. do you actually think about expediting fethullah gulen which is a key goal of erdogan. what do you know of this extradition that would have happened after flynn was actually in the u.s. government? just the very, very basics, chris, just what we said in the story, which is that the fbi was asked during the trump administration while mike flynn was the national security
their understanding of this story to their evaluation of the president? well, i would say among republicans, it s still it s still the case that most republicans are supporting the president. i mean, you see that i think 64% of americans are now saying that they believe the russia investigation is important and that i think there may have been a serious wrongdoing there. but then there is 32% that are in the camp that say no, we don t think it s that important, and it shouldn t be investigated. my hunch is that that 32% is also 32% that supports president trump. these are probably people who are consuming conservative media that is not just conservative media, but conservative media that has really become trump media. it s less conservative. it s just trump media. and so they re receiving a steady diet of lies and misinformation about the importance of this and about the progress of the investigation