A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Matter. The Justice Department guidelines preclude indicting a sitting president. Michael cohen in his own words defying his long time ally. He has said he would take a bullet for President Trump. And now hes publicly saying in court under oath that he committed these crimes in coordination and at the direction of the then candidate. Very specific words. Could cohen still cooperate with the Special Counsel Robert Muellers overall russia probe . As you know, mueller delegated this case to the u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york. Reporter thats right, wolf. This investigation began by referral from Robert Mueller. But as part of this Plea Agreement, Michael Cohen is not, you know, coop rating. He is not in Cooperation Deal with the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan bringing this case. Nothing precludes him from speaking with Robert Muellers investigators or from them reaching out to Michael Cohen. Hes
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
Means unlike public companies, the books arent out there for the public to see. When federal prosecutors get someone to talk about them and grant them immunity, they can see all of it. Jeff toobin, thank you. We are staying all over this Breaking News. Allen weisselberg granted immunity to talk and testify in front of a federal grand jury. We continue our coverage with at this hour right now. This is cnn Breaking News. Hello. Im ryan nobles in today for kate bolduan. We begin with Breaking News. What could be a disastrous development for President Trump. Sources telling cnn that federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Allen Weisselberg, the longtime cfo for the Trump Organization and someone who has been with the company for decades. Kara is here to explain. This information just coming in. Explain to us what you are reporting. The Wall Street Journal is
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Thats different than his, perhaps, more gran yu thats different than his, perhaps, more gran ylar daily gripes on twitter where hes talking about former fbi employees, lisa page and peter strzok or bruce ohr, someone whos currently at the Justice Department who hes threatened w withdraw his security clearance. Those are individual cases. The Justice Department doesnt comment on those. Today it was digit becaufferent it was about the Attorney Generals control over the Justice Department and felt like it was time to push back and this, oching of courf course, i. He rarely does this. He always, as every single event, sessions goes out of his way to praise the president. To talk about furtherering his agenda. But the one time that he did push back was back in february where, again, the president questioned his integrity. He said what the Attorney General had been doing at the Justice Department surrounding carter page, and surveillance and fisa, those issues that have become also familiar
Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley appearing to give the president permission to get rid of his Attorney General but theres another way to look at it which is that they seem to be trying to say any action off until after the midterm elections and the confirmation of judge kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the question is are they telling the president he should get rid of Jeff Sessions or hoping they can slow walk this until things calm down but if youre bob mueller you see november as a day on the calendar that to get your job done before just in case. So susan in his punchback Yesterday Yegs Listjeff session the litany of things he had been leading that were on point with what the president wanted, from enforcing immigration laws, focusing on ms13, the gang, promoting economic growth, et
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