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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
words celebrate a wonderful life. kevin, in the recent memoir he wrote i d like to see the politics return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the other the history of other nations and we re more alike than different. as we celebrate john mccain and his life and his achievements and contributions to this country, i mean, is there a sense that s a conversation that perhaps can inspire in a different way now that we re at this point? john mccain inspired a lot of people to public service through his example and we are talking about it, are there people to pick up the mantle? i think there are and may be fewer but people to carry on the legacy. one thing i would really note which is it s easy to have a lot of friends and allies talk nice about you at a time like this but what s most notable is people opposed to mccain and the political opponents, they re lauding him in the same way. he earned the respect of even
for? now, the manhattan d.a. s review in the very early stages and no decision made but according to the times a state investigation would focus on how the trump organization accounted for the reimbursement the michael cohen for the statement to stormy daniels. and one more thing about weisselberg. our source said he is not called back for additional questioning of weeks ago and unclear if he ll be questioned again. athee thna jones, thank you. first of all, put it in perspective. we re joined by bill kristol, scott bolden and kevin maddon. put it in perspective for me. he s the man who knows where all the financial bodies are buried. how big is this? oh, actually, i think this is legitimately huge. i know a lot of times we say that things ra really big deal. i think this is this is really a big deal precisely because this is somebody in the
capitol hill and still find it problematic if the president were to fire him. so, scott, if that s the case, would you see, though, other republicans because he enjoys at kevin pointed out, support on capitol hill and see republicans speak up? i think so. at least in the past, senator sass and others from nebraska said that. but graham is really interesting. when i first heard his comments in the interview i started to think he caught deal with the president to be the next a.g. and maybe the senators accept him. but the problem with all of that is that trump buries himself firing the current ag sessions because it s a step towards ab instruction. i fired you because you didn t fire mueller. i fired you because you didn t fire rosenstein. he would have to fire three or four people and put people in