before saying he doesn t think it from mueller s team. i d be curious to think what else that could encompass. and the second is the very critical paragraph, because it talks about e-mails and text messages. i know from my own reporting president trump doesn t use e-mail, he doesn t text. it s one of the things that helps him most in all of this. i d be curious to know and i m sure we all are, what that e-ma e-mail traffic involves. is it the children discussing things with others? john mentioned alan weiselberg. i know he s talk to the southern district of new york but i don t have any evidence that weis weiselberg has stopoken to mueller. we also have to factor in the
was able to provide obviously some sort of important collaboration there. what more ok d how wide i guess, how broad is the standard immunity agreement with somebody like weiselberg? is the assumption he s supposed to help with other parts of various cases? put it this way is robert mueller going to get his hands on weiselberg? he may. immunity obviously goes along with this, common with the extent of the testimony. the judgment has been made by the southern district we need this guy s testimony. we don t quite have enough to charge him or maybe his culpability isn t enough to make him take a plea. we ll give him this immunity essentially, a break. it s usually carefully negotiated. there s been reporting that the immunity for now extended for the first batch extended to cohen. but it s not like the southern district to just sort of set one hurdle, clear the hurdle and quit. the southern district usually likes to run things all the way into the ground. so if they need another r
weis weiselberg, pecker, with anybody, they can go to the department of justice and the judge and seek to expand that. let me go to the manafort situation and the supposed partial plea deal he was looking for. it sounded like he was looking to see if you tell me was he simply trying to get the tax charges like, look, can we plea to those, and we just narrow the scope of the second trial? is that if that was what his ask was, why do you think mueller said no? yeah, i wasn t that surprised to hear that there was some plea negotiations about the d.c. trial. you know, pleas like this happen when both sides have something to win and lose. the ball game is over with the convictions in virginia. that s going to be the base of manafort s sentence. even if he s convicted across the board in d.c., his exposure. go up but not immensely. if he s acquitted of everything in d.c., he still has to face the significant exposure in virginia. looking at it sort of practically from mueller s