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
with him over foreign policy and i always heard from him, also, when i said things he didn t like and, you know, was told repeatedly i was going to make his head explode and things like that. he had a wonderful sense of humor, also. he was somebody who, you know, was always joking and playing tricks. he used to with me i don t know if people have seen this. saturday night live stalking the woman and comes up behind her and would do that to me at the newsroom desk and hello, kirsten. every time i would scream and so creepy but he was like that. he was just he was a funny, warm, nice person or is. i m just saying back then. right. and then on top of it, i think he s somebody that holds an important place in american history and he has this long experience in history that other people just don t have. and you hear him talk there in the interview with jake last year how fortunate to in his
i hope i don t run this clip for another 50 years. but how do you want the american people to remember you? he served his country. and not always right. made a lot of mistakes. made a lot of errors. but served his country and i hope we could add honorably. i think we can say honorably. always great to have you here. do not be a stranger. this is a seat for you any time you want. thank you. great to see you. bill, you have covered john mccain for decades. and you wrote this last year. before i ever met john mccain i was in awe of him. i ve gotten the know him pretty well over the last couple of decades and i still am. there are a lot of people who would agree with you. yeah. really wonderful you showed the clips of jake s interview when you see what an impressive man he is and such a wonderful life. but it s also an attitude approaching, foresees the end. to have that sense of gratitude