Dollars from the alleged tax fraud schemes that she and her sibling concocted and ran for years. Judge berrys own share of the wind fall from fred trumps business estate was nearly 200 million. Her sudden resignation from the bench, again, just report this had time last night that resignation ends the judicial conduct inquiry into her role in that alleged fraud scheme. She made it go away by resigning. But that just makes the spotlight that much hotter on the taxes and the tax related controversies surrounding her younger brother, who right now is the sitting president of the United States, whos administration is now two days in to just defying the law and refusing to hand over the president s tax returns for review by the chairman of the house ways and means committee. And its interesting. This trump taxes standoff with the house, it really is a little bit different than all of the rest of the conflicts that have arisen between trump and the democratic led congress. In this case about the tax returns, there is just clear, unambiguous bold simple law here that they are now defying. Legally the irs has to they have no choice, they have to hand over tax returns when such returns are requested by the ways and means chairman and the law was written specifically to apply to the tax returns of high Level Administration officials. In this case, the Trump Administration really is just flatout breaking back letter law full stop. Were now just waiting to see what somebodys going to do about it. No president ial administration has ever broken this law before. Therefore nobody has ever had to coerce compliance with this law before, so we dont know how that works. We dont know yet how that resolves. Not yet. Today as we reported last night might be a possibility today, we also, in fact, got the indictment of president obamas First White House counsel, Gregory Craig for his alleged role in one of the illegal foreign lobbying schemes coordinated by President Trumps now imprisoned Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort. Well have more on that coming up. We also got a third federal indictment of Michael Avenatti, the previously unavoidable for comment california lawyer who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in her legal cases against Michael Cohen and President Trump, the case thats ultimately resulted in Michael Cohen, the president s long time lawyer being sentenced to federal prison for, among other things, Campaign Finance felonies deriving from his paying off Michael Avenattis client just before the election. So her claims about the president wouldnt hurt his prospects in that election. The president himself has been described by prosecutors as having directed the commission of those felonies and there remain these weird Unanswered Questions as to whether the president , too, will ultimately get charged with those felonies that prosecutors said he committed. Meanwhile, Michael Avenatti is now facing dozens of charges now in multiple federal jurisdictions and they are not related to his Stormy Daniels work, theyre related to alleged misbehavior towards his client not to mention an alleged extortion effort against nike. And because everythings happening all at once, the hush money Campaign Finance felony part of this story is apparently back open as well with the wall street journal now reporting that prosecutors interest in the hush money case not only continues, it is way more sprawling and includes way more people than you might have expected. And, again, because everythings happening all at once, another extortion allegation not from nike but instead from the richest man in the world, the ceo of amazon may also simultaneously be undoing the immunity deal at the heart of the hush money case, the immunity deal that allowed a close friend of the president , the head of a supermarket tabloid to testify against the president and against Michael Cohen while still having immunity that saved his own skin. That immunity deal may now be unraveling because of allegations by amazon ceo jeff bezos, if that immunity deal is unraveling, that means theres a whole bunch of skin that may no longer be saved in that criminal case, that means the hush money case in which the president is already implicated by prosecutors, that case appears to be alive and well right now and no, nobody knows whats going to happen in that next. Everything is happening all at once. I know, i know. Plus well have a bind bending update on how the newly appointed trump attorney general is steaming toward the start of week four since he received the Mueller Report and still hasnt released any of it. It has been amazing to watch william barr really make stuff up as he goes along as to what hes doing with the Mueller Report and why and on what grounds and what he might do next and what hes allowed to say about the process and what he feels compelled to not disclose hes just been winging it completely. Today, he tried to take a whole bunch of it back, which was astonishing and its all on tape, so you will want to see that. Theres a lot to get to. Lots going on. The first person well bring on the show tonight, the first guest is the great Chuck Rosenberg. I think we need somebody thats as big as brain and well experienced as chuck is to try to answer some big basic questions about what just happened today with organization one, not individual one, thats the president , not law firm a, thats Gregory Craigs law firm, not magazine one, thats the National Enquirer which may be losing its immunity deal. No, this is about organization one, which is wikileaks per their description in the indictment that Robert Mueller and the special counsels office filed last summer against an even dozen military officers from the gru in russia. Quote, indictment, the grand jury for the district of columbia charges count one conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, quote, in or around 2016 the Russian Federation operated a military Intelligence Agency called the Main Intelligence Directorate of the general staff, aka the gru. Specific units of the gru conducted large scale cyberoperations to interfere with the 2016 u. S. President ial election. The defendants were gru officers who knowingly and intentionally conspired to gain unauthorized access to hack into the computers of u. S. Persons and entities involved in the 2016 president ial election to steal documents from those computers to stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 u. S. President ial election. Starting in at least march of 2016, the conspirators used a variety of means to hack the email accounts of volunteers and employees of the u. S. President ial campaign of Hillary Clinton including the email account of the clinton Campaign Chairman by in or around the following month, april 2016, the conspirators also hacked into the Computer Networks of the Democratic CongressionalCampaign Committee and the Democratic National committee, the National Democratic party. The conspirators covertly monitored the computers of dozens of dccc and dnc employees, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code and stole emails and other documents from the dccc and dnc. The conspirators began to plan the release of materials stolen from the Clinton Campaign and the two Democratic Party organizations. Beginning in or around june 2016, the conspirators staged and released tens of thousands of the stolen emails and documents, they did so using fictitious online personas including dc leaks and guccifer 2. 0 documents. The conspirators also used guccifer 2. 0 persona to release additional stolen documents through a website maintained by an organization that had ref documents stolen from u. S. Persons. Wikileaks is the organization whos founder was arrested today in london pending extradition to the United States. Now, according to the special counsels office and this live indictment that has since been handed off to the National Security division at the Justice Department, heres how prosecutors say wikileaks helped in the Russian Military intelligence operation that attacked our election in 2016. From page 17 of the indictment. Use of organization 1. Use of wikileaks. Quote, in order to expand their interference in the 2016 u. S. President ial election, the conspirators meaning the defendants, the gru officers, transferred many of the documents they stole from the dnc and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to wikileaks. The conspirators, the Russian Military officers pose is as guccifer 2. 0 discussed the release of the stolen documents and the timing of those releases with wikileaks to heighten their impact on the 2016 u. S. President ial election. On or about june 22nd of 2016, wikileaks sent a private message to guccifer 2. 0 to send any new materials stolen from the dnc here for us to review and it will have a much higher impact than what you are doing. Less than a month later, on or about july 6th, 2016, wikileaks added quote, if you have anything hillary related, we want it in the next two days preferably because the Democratic National convention is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her afterwards. The conspirators responded, okay, i see. Wikileaks explained, quote, we think trump has only a 25 chance of winning against hillary so conflict between bernie and hillary is interesting, meaning send me that stuff. Between june and july, the indictment explains how wikileaks allegedly got all the stuff they got from these Russian MilitaryIntelligence Officer and, quote, you dont know or about july 22nd, 2016, wikileaks released over 20,000 emails and other documents stolen from the dnc network by the conspirators, this release occurred approximately three days before the start of the dnc. For maximum impact. Got to make sure those bernie supporters never, ever cross over and agree to vote for clinton. Then, a month before the election, just as the access Hollywood Tape was coming out and the Trump Campaign was nearly imploding just moments after the release of the access Hollywood Tape, on october 7th, 2016, wikileaks released the first set of emails from the chairman of the Clinton Campaign that had been stolen by officer lukashev and his russian coconspirators. Between on or about october 7th and november 7th, organization one, wikileaks, released approximately 33 trenches of documents that had been stolen from the chairman of the Clinton Campaign. In total over 50,000 stolen documents were released. So wikileaks is the entity, according to prosecutors that lee aed with Russian Military intelligence to get the best stuff that would hurt clinton the most, soliciting specific stuff about hillary that would hurt hillary the most, specifically both in terms of the timing and the content of what they wanted. They timed the release of the documents that the gru officers had stolen so as to inflict maximum political damage on the Clinton Campaign and to make sure that Bernie Sanders never, ever would consider voting for clinton. During the time that wikileaks was lees aing with the russians, wikileaks was also in direct contact with the president s eldest son, don junior advising him on how to better circulate the documents that the gru had stolen for maximum impact. What link exactly his father should mention and that he should tweet out to make sure that the russian documents got the widest distribution. Don junior appears to have been psyched about that particular outreach and posted exactly what they told him to post, posted that link exactly as they told him to post it. Wikileaks also gave the Trump Campaign, they gave don junior login information for a website criticizing trumps friendliness toward putin. Wikileaks gave don junior heads up that that website was about to launch. On that one don junior appears to have been slightly dumbfounded on what he was just to do so he forwarded that information to lots of other people on the campaign. On election day, wikileaks sent this note to don junior, quote, hi, don. If your father loses, we think it is much more interesting, we think it is much more interesting if he does not concede and spends time challenging the media and other types of rigging that occurred as he has implied that he might do. Election day. If your father, quote, loses, we think its much more interesting if he doesnt concede. So wikileaks in the 2016 campaign had kind of a singular role. They had a role that at least was very well appreciated. This just came out, this just came out, wikileaks i love wikileaks the Hillary Clinton documents released today by wikileaks. Exposed by wikileaks. They want to distract us from wikileaks. Wikileaks. Wikileaks. Wikileaks revelation. They got it all down, folks, wikileaks. That was then, this is today. Do you still love wikileaks . I know nothing about wikileaks. Its not my thing. Wikileaks whats it . Hum hum . I cant hear you. Oh, wick can i the thing with the mermaids . No, thats not my thing. Yes, actually, sir, yes, it is your thing. Its your thing. Its been your thing for a long time. There are receipts and everybody in the whole wide world has them. But the charges unsealed against Julian Assange from wikileaks today, theyre not about the hacking of computers and stealing of documents from the Clinton Campaign and the democrats by the russian government during the campaign. Charges today are not about the wikileaks role in soliciting that material asking for specific types of material that they wanted from the russians and then distributing those documents with help from the Trump Campaign and the president s son. We know from the special counsels indictments that prosecutors have plenty of evidence about wikileaks involvement in that effort. They not only put all that information that i just read to you from the gru indictment last summer they restated a lot of that indictment. The government knows a lot about wikileaks working with russian intelligence in their plot to mess with the 2016 election and to distribute the russians stolen stuff. The indictment unsealed today, though, it sneds derives from a hack of clafd information from u. S. Government computers which dates back to 2010. That was tons of information including classified information related to the afghanistan war, the iraq war, hundreds of thousands of documents from the state department, the soldier who stole those huge databases of information and shipped them to wikileaks, that soldier was convicted at Court Martial and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Chelsea manning served seven years of that 35 year sentence before having the rest of her sentence commute the by president obama. That was a dramatic thing announced by the president himself right at the end of his time in office because of that, Chelsea Manning got out of prison in the spring of 2017. She otherwise would have been held in prison until the year 2045. But president obama commuted her sentence. But thats the Chelsea Manning side of that leak and that hack dating back to 2010 when it comes to wikileaks, that posted all of that material, although the Justice Department confirmed at the time that they had an open and Ongoing Investigation into wikileaks role into that hack and leak of classified material, an investigation i should mention that would have been led by the fbi at the time which was led at the time by a man named Robert Mueller who you may have heard of. Although wikileaks was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation dating back to the Chelsea Manning case, under obama, wikileaks never got charged. Chelsea manning got charged, convicted, sentenced served seven years got the rest of her sentence commuted by obama. Wikileaks never got charged during the Obama Administration and we will get expert advice on this in just a second but to the extent that wikileaks was the entity that published the information that was stolen by manning, the decision not to prosecute wikileaks does make sense under the First Amendment, right . Anybody who works anywhere even remotely adjacent to the News Business knows the free press in this country has the right to publish even stolen material, even material obtained by seriously unsavory or illegal means. The free press is not responsible for the origins of any material that gets to us, unless, of course, we are responsible for it because we had something to do with how it was illegally obtained. I will oversimplify it here, but basically what you learn day one in this business is that if your source breaks into a safely and steals a document, your source may have committed a crime in so doing, but you wont commit a crime just for publishing that document. That said, if you help your source break into the safe or the locked filing cabinet or the encrypted and password database, if you help in the stealing of classified material or anything nothing about the First Amendment is going to insulate you from charges that you stole regardless of whether or not you publish it. Thats you learn that day one in News Business school. I mean, in the Julian Assange indictment he is not charged with publishing the documents and materials that were taken by Chelsea Manning. In the indictment unsealed against Julian Assange today, he is not charged with publishing that material, he is charged with helping Chelsea Manning hack into a government database by trying to break a password on someone elses account so Chelsea Manning could continue to steal more documents without being noticed, without being found out. And thats fascinating, right . Part of the strength of this case will obviously depend on the facts as alleged by prosecutors and what they can prove but part of the strength of this case may depend on whether the court sees that act that alleged act of wikileaks helping manning try to crack into that database as if she were somebody else. Will the court see that as helping Chelsea Manning in her efforts to steal government documents and classified stuff . Or could the court see that as wikileaks just helping Chelsea Manning keep her identity secret . You can see how that would have an important that would be an important distinction when it comes to whether or not you can invoke the First Amendment as some sort of defense to these kinds of charges and we will see, but if prosecutors convince a court of the theory of the case that is laid out in todays indictment, that Julian Assange was helping Chelsea Manning steal classified material, steal government documents, if the government convinces a judge, convinces a jury of that, then assange will be convicted on the same general theory of the case that convicted manning. And this time there will be no president obama to commute anyones sentence. That said, this time there is a President Trump instead who today really is pretending that he never praised wikileaks let alone more than 140 times while campaigning for president while wikileaks was helping a slue of now indicted Russian MilitaryIntelligence Officers do what they could to sabotage Hillary Clinton to get trump elected and even to encourage trump to go nuts and not accept the results if he lost. And so who knows what that means for how this will be handled by this president . And by this Justice Department . And by the prosecutors who filed this indictment against assange last march specifically four days before the statute of limitations expired on his alleged crime, four days before the expiration of the statute of limitations. And yes the Obama Administration clearly struggled, clearly wrestled with whether or not to charge assange and wikileaks related to what Chelsea Manning stole and gave to them. But since that all happened, a whole new wikileaks chapter has opened, since the whole manning thing, wikileaks and assange opened up a whole new lease on life in terms of how they operate, right . With assange alleged by prosecutors to have played a major role in the Russian Military intelligence operation that monkey wrenched the 2016 election, with assange during that same 2016 campaign reportedly declining to post leaked documents or materials about the russian government, with assange who supposedly this big antisecrecy activist as an attack on putin. With assange getting hired by state owned russia today tv, he got a tv show on the russian state owned yeah. What happened there for one . But now that assange is arrested, what is likely to happen to the evidence Justice Department prosecutors have collected and already put into indictments about wikileaks as organization 1 for its role in the Russian Election attack . And i am no lawyer, but from the way that i read this stuff today, i think if they are going to charge anything about assange and his role in that attack, if they are going to charge anything against assange other than what theyve already put in this initial indictment, the way i read this, i think, theyre going to have to do so really, really quickly like this isnt going to linger. And that is a heck of a prospect with the president of the United States right now saying wicki, who . Ive never and the president s newly installed attorney general, the head of the Justice Department now sitting on the Mueller Report and not letting it out, i mean if theyre going to charge assange anything other than what theyve done today, theyve got to do so right away. What do you think its going to happen . All i know is that everything happens all at once. Novation,. A product of mastery. Lease the 2019 es 350 for 389 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. 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Weve heard lots of talk today about how this is maybe just a placeholder indictment, that this one charge might just be enough to get him extradited but it might just be a placeholder for a lot of other charges maybe assange will be charged with other stuff particularly given what prosecutors have said in other indictments about wikileaks and assange having a key role working with Russian Military intelligence in the russian attack on the 2016 election. Weve heard a lot of talk about that today. Heres the thing, as far as i understand this, if u. S. Prosecutors are going to charge assange with anything other than the one count thats already in this indictment, chop chop, because this is an international matter, because assange will need to be extradited from the uk back here to face charges in the u. S. , as far as i understand this and i might be wrong, theres an International Doctrine at play which is called the rule of specialty, why is that not a board game already . The rule of specialty, and under normal circumstances, the rule of specialty means that the country that wants to get someone via extradition, in that case that would be us, that country cannot add new charges against the defendant after the sending country has shipped that person over to face justice. So you cant say, extradite this person to our charge we want to charge this person with jay walking and once youve got him add a murder rap on top of it. After youre extradited no more charges. The country has to know what youre facing before they send you over here, the rule of specialty. Dont take it from me, though. Im not a lawyer. As far as i understand this, if u. S. Prosecutors do intend to file more charges they wont have much more time to get that done because the uk will extradite him in short order and thats a full stop on anything else being added to the charges against assange. Joining us now luckily is somebody who actually knows this stuff, Chuck Rosenberg is a former fbi official. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks for having me, rachel. So the rule of specialty, i am not a specialist, did i explain that basically correctly . Precisely. The extradition between the United States and many countries including the United Kingdom is governed by treaty and one of the provisions of our treaty with the United Kingdom which went into effect in 2007, if they send somebody here via extradition, they want to know precisely what it is were charging that person with and as you said, we cant add charges once they get here. Theres a few exceptions to that not worth talking about right now, but youre right. We have to tell them why we want assange and what were going to charge him with when he gets here. And you said that the exceptions here arent necessarily going into, does that mean in your view despite the fact that there are some exceptions in the law around these matters they dont appear to be exceptions that would meaningfully change what assange might be facing here . Right. Lets go to the exceptions then, rachel. If he commits another crime while hes here in the United States he assaulted a correctional officer, he could be charged with that, but if we want to extradite him on matters related to the gru indictment and any other role wikileaks played in spreading that information and receiving that information and hacking into that information, we would need to tell uk authorities what we had in mind. We would need to charge him with that other stuff and so to your point, we would need to do that before hes extradited and therefore quickly. And chuck, based on what we have seen about wikileaks or organization one, hes obviously a subject of discussion in the roger stone indictment, hes the subject wikileaks is the subject of extensive discussion in the gru indictment. Given what prosecutors did lay out about wikileaks behavior during the 2016 election in that gru indictment, would you expect that its possible prosecutors will want to add a charge or charges related to that behavior . Its possible, but the distinction you drew earlier is a really important one, rachel, wikileaks is arguably a media outlet. I dont admire their work or what they do or how they do it, but you could make an argument that they are a media outlet. Assange, however, at least in the indictment in front of us now is a criminal. He helped someone try to crack a password and so theres a big difference between the act of publishing, which is First Amendment protected and stealing, which is not. Again, i think you nailed it earlier. Imagine the scenario where, lets say, a wayward irs employee wants to give the New York TimesDonald Trumps tax returns. The New York Times just receives it and publishes it. The employee will go to jail because thats a crime, but the New York Times is within its First Amendment rights to publish what it received. However, if the New York Times reporters break into the irs and steal those tax returns and publish it, that act is not First Amendment protected. So really crucial distinction here and im sure because ive been through this in the department of justice that they were very, very careful to make sure that what they were charging assange with was not covered by First Amendment protections. Chuck rosenberg, thank you for helping us understand this. When you tell me ive gotten something right on tv it burns like a hot sun in my chest for days on end. Thank you very much for saying that. You got it. We got a lot more to get to tonight. 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His latest promise there have been a few, but his latest promise is hell release both to the public and to congress a censored version next week hopefully. So who knows . Kind of making it up as he goes along. Today, though the attorney general appears to be trying to cleanup from his latest accidently oops, i didnt mean that moment which came when he thought about it on the spot, you can actually seal the wheels turning and decided to declare while testifying before congress that it was his personal belief that u. S. Law enforcement was spying on the Trump Campaign in 2016. I think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal, its a big deal. Youre not suggesting, though, that spying occurred . Well, i guess you could i think theres spying did occur, yes, i think spying did occur. Yes, i think spying did occur and its a big deal. That right . We all agree . Is that weird that i said that . Did i Say Something happened when it didnt actually happen . I could have been sure that i thought i heard that there was like spying within moments of saying he was setting up a team to investigate the spying that he believes occurred against the Trump Campaign which is a big deal, the attorney general decided maybe no, maybe try to take that back. Ive said im reviewing this. I am going i havent set up a team yet. This is not launching an investigation of the fbi. Do you want to rephrase what youre doing . Unauthorized surveillance. I want to make sure there was no unauthorized surveillance. Youve indicated that theres the possibility that unauthorized surveillance or spying occur. Did you say that i said that it occurred . I believe there is a basis for my concern, but im not going to discuss the basis. Chairman, could i add one point of clarification. I want to make it Clear Thinking back on all the different colloquies here that i am not saying that improper surveillance occurred, im saying that i am concerned about it and looking into it, thats all. Please point of clarify what i have been saying up until now was i its no longer operative. That cleanup job about his spying comments was an amazing thing over the course of a not very long hearing. It continued into today. After the testimony, a person familiar with barrs thinking told the Washington Post, quote, he was not trying to provide conservatives with rhetorical red meat and was using the word spying in a technical sense of collecting intelligence. Its not what he said at all. Thats another explanation. Now today more sources familiar with barrs thinking tell nbc news that actually, barr doesnt see much of a semantic difference between spying and surveillance and hes more invested in whether the fbi followed proper procedures in launching the trump russia investigation. 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Indictment filed today federal prosecutors have charged him with lying to the special counsel and lying several years earlier to the Justice Department about work he did for the ukrainian government. At the time he was doing that work, ukraines prorussia leader was a client of Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Manafort arranged for his ukrainian client to secretly shovel millions of dollars to greg craigs big rich influential law firm. Prosecutors say greg craig lied to coverup that he too, just like Paul Manafort should have registered as a foreign lobbyist for his ukraine work. Thats one of the crimes for which Paul Manafort is now in federal prison. Gregory craigs lawyer says he never lied to anybody. The governments quote stubborn insistence on charging him is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion. Robert mueller initially referred Gregory Craigs case for potential progression to the Southern District of new york. Prosecutors appeared to have passed on it and not do anything with it. Today, instead, craig was indicted by a grand jury working with prosecutors in the u. S. Attorneys office in d. C. , it started with mueller, it went to the Southern District of new york and went to d. C. Before they finally did charge him. Todays greg craigs lawyer said essentially see you in court, craig says he is confident that a jury will vindicate him. If so, that promises to be quite a trial. The Mueller Investigation is apparently over but its ripple effects are clearly going to be playing out for a very long time. Another one of those ripples seems to be turning into a bit of a tsunami and that story is just ahead. But youre still moved by moments like this. Dont let Psoriatic Arthritis take them away. Taltz reduces joint pain and stiffness and helps stop the progression of joint damage. For people with moderate to severe psoriasis, 90 saw significant improvement. 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Last month when a federal judge gave the green light to unseal the search warrants from the raid on President Trumps longtime attorney mike cohen, there were 18 1 2 pages of redactions to those you be sealed search warrants. Redactions specifically related to the Illegal Campaign contribution scheme. The hush money scheme, the Campaign Finance felonies that cohens going to prison for. The judge said those 18 1 2 pages from the search warns had to stay redacted because otherwise they would reveal the scope and direction of the governments Ongoing Investigation. Ongoing investigation, oh . And they would unveil subjects of the investigation and the potential conduct under scrutiny. Also federal agents told the judge they expected to find evidence of a conspiracy. Now, a whole bunch of people who might have been part of that conspiracy around the Campaign Finance felonies, the hush money payments a poll whole bunch of people involved in that will already have immunity is, say allen weisselberg, trumps long time financial guy at the Trump Organization. Weisselberg has been reportedly granted limited immunity notice relation to this testimony related to that issue. Also david pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer also the parent company, ami entered into a nonprosecution agreement with prosecutors in this matter which is contingent on ami not committing any more crimes which shouldnt be hard but stick a pin in that. The universal of people who could be part of the conspiracy and also still on the hook not potentially getting immunity here is getting smaller. The. Meanwhile, the sdny investigation appears to getting bigger. The wall street journal why reports they have interviewed more people than we previously knew including hope hicks, the former white house communication director. Keel keith schiller. But when it came to talking to hicks they wanted to talk to her about her contacts with david pecker around the time that david pecker and everybody else involved in the scheme was still selling a fake cover story to deny what had really happened. Hope hicks was involved in conversation with david pecker around that timele . When they were covering it up . And now david pecker has immunity . What about hope hicks . The journal is reporting she was questioned as was keith shiller. Ami has the nonprosecution agreement, dont committee any krils anel be fine. Cnn is reporting jeff bezos will talk to prosecutors this week. They are reportedly investigating whether ami extorted jeff bezos, extortion is a crime running stories about his extramarital affair in the National Enquirer to punish him for how his newspaper the Washington Post has covered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and saudi arabias an apparent complicity in that murder. Sdny is looking at whether ami might have been doing the bidding of saudi arabia in going after bezos on their behalf. Ami already has federal prosecutors in their grill over the hush money scheme and had to admit their an role in it in order to get their nonprosecution agreement which they only continue to benefit from as long as they dont commit any more crimes. Now prosecutors are reportedly asking whether they were committing crimes to do saudi arabia saudi arabias bidding to shut up bezos. How much would that reopen this whole story of these Campaign Finance felonies for which the president s long time personal lawyer is already going to prison and in which the prosecutors say the president is already implicated. Nicolle hong has been part of the team of that has broken so many of these stories. Thank you for being here. Let me ask you if i laid that out in a way that makes sense to you. Yes, thats right. Do we know whether the nonprosecution for ami might be at risk. Its hard to tell. Its in the he willtively early stages, especially if there is a saudi element, that could take months and months to investigate. At the end of the day, you have the worlds richest man alleging hes a victim of state sponsored hacking. Its serious and could take a long time to investigate. If the ami nonprosecution agreement is at risk, my expectation as a lehman looking at this, that would open them up to potential prosecution for everything they told prosecutors and under the terms of the agreement. They laid out their own involvement in the Campaign Finance felonies for which cohen is going to prison. Weve had this open question whether the president individual one might himself have liability there. It seems like ami might have liability if they lost their immunity. They would certainly be at risk if the nonprosecution agreement were ripped up. Its too early right now to speculate about what the Southern District is finding because theyre still calling people in as you noted and kind of in the fact finding stage right now. In terms of their communications with hope hicks and keith schiller, the implication from your reporting is that hicks and schiller might have been aware of again what prosecutors say was a criminal conspiracy. They might have been aware at least of elements of it at the time that it was happening. Thats what im reading from the way youre describing what we know what they were asked. Is that fair . They were definitely asked about their contacts with david pecker. Its possible that prosecutors were causing them in early on to try and get some leverage over david picker when they finally met with him in early july. If schiller and hicks were questioned about prosecutors in this way, do we know anything about whether they might have entered into any sort of deal with prosecutors or how theyve approached their own legal representation in these matters . Is the Trump Organization providing them lawyers to handle this stuff. Our sense is keith and hope were not facing any criminal exposure. They were called in early on possibly as witnesses and its possible they were asked about phone calls and meetings that picker and trump had. One thing we do know through our reporting is before sdny met with david pecker not first time, they were already aware he had had conversations with trump. Its possible they got that through the e mails they got through cohens personal e mails but its also possible that hope or keith told them about they might have been in a position to know about those meetings and calls. Nicolle hong, you and your colleagues have advance this had and so many other stories in this part of the scandal universe we live in with such clarity. Thanks for coming in. Well be right back. Stay with us. Oming in lwel be right back. Stay with us you know that look . That life of the party look. Walk it off look. One more mile look. Reply all look. Own your look with fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crows feet and forehead lines look better. 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We will have David Cay Johnson tonight. Nice. Hes going to be breaking some news whats going on in the Treasury Department and the irs with Donald Trumps tax returns. It is very serious news for receive mnuchin. We can only hope his lawyers have already told him about this. We are in a weird netherworld where they are clearly breaking the law and nobody knows how the law is ultimately going to get enforced here. Its not the sort of thing will likely be allowed to slide. David cay johnson has dug out yet