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
matter tabloid publishers or lawyers or cfos or third parties. i think the main lesson is and people mentioned this already a little bit. the legal investigations are serious. so used to media firestorms and trump says something and then what will you do about it? still president. the media thing fades away. that is not how legal investigations work. one thing leads to another and competent people with the resources of the federal government behind them, bob mueller and southern district of new york, a different story and so it s not as if trump wishes this away or a better pr strategy or spin something. the end of the day, mueller knows a, b or c and because he does he learns d, e and f and then persons to mix the metaphor g, h and i decide to cooperate. you don t get to choose. you go to jail or you or tell the truth. i think this is why this week is a big week. really feels like a inflection point in the saga. and then the l, m, n, o, p.
i don t blame her, but she probably also sees her father s vulnerability and sees you as not being vulnerable. it s kind of sad, though, when you have your daughter, i believe she s, like, 18, the one fighting your media firestorms out there. and has to apologize on her dad s behalf. i know i would be pretty sad if that was the case. but let s make a point here, guys. we re watching that video of alec in front of a sea of reporters in his manhattan on his manhattan street. if he didn t want it to be a circus, then why is he walking arnt o around outside provoking people? i would just say the opposite. hi, good to see you. i m sorry i can t talk everybody. thank you for coming. he s out of control, though. he acts like a rage-aholic. he almost act loosie like hes better than anyone else and can t handle it when things don t go as scripted.
secretary vilsack s decision alone but the white house stands by his decision. we ve got this covered for you. mark whitaker and radio talk show host. mark, we re waiting to get video in from algeria been any, georgia. how did the white house or this administration allow this to go 24 hours. a lot of this came out by hardball 5:00 p.m. eastern time with chris matthews? well, they re in a really tough spot here. the reason they rushed to judgment and i think fired her prematurely is they wanted to get this story over with and almost anything they do now. is going to keep the story alive. but she s also played a big role in keeping this story alive. you know, often these people who are caught in these sides of media firestorms are sort of helpless, don t know how to