they can t stop because it is election interference at the highest level. the unsealed indictment and engaging in a conspiracy for military documents. florida grand jury returned including one including the espionage. classified documents taken from the white house. culminating with the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. making the first on camera statement. and indictment was unsealed charging donald trump with violations of laws and obscurity to obstruct justice. violations of those laws put our country at risk. i may meet court on tuesday night. a partisan case. this is serious business. may or may not have a greater impact on the republican presidential front runners campaign. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the charges against former president trump have rocked the media and political world with news outlets and commentators immediately picking sides. it is pretty aggressive to go after your political opponent on something you re probably five times more guilty
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
you just cannot have this many self inflicted wounds and do what he needed to do. turn around a newsroom. you cannot essentially have your office on the newsroom desk where you are talking to people every day. you cannot be sort of aloof. you cannot be making these decisions from up here. you cannot have weird interview with places. i was reading way too much about him. if you listen to it, i mean, it sounds like, the atlantic story was so absurd. i think that was the last straw. a lot of damage in their. no one knew exactly how much he wasn t cooperating. he followed him into the gym. the gym thing from what i understand, as a matter of substance and style really passed off david. chris licht made a lot of mistakes. i have described his task as mission impossible.
with him over foreign policy and i always heard from him, also, when i said things he didn t like and, you know, was told repeatedly i was going to make his head explode and things like that. he had a wonderful sense of humor, also. he was somebody who, you know, was always joking and playing tricks. he used to with me i don t know if people have seen this. saturday night live stalking the woman and comes up behind her and would do that to me at the newsroom desk and hello, kirsten. every time i would scream and so creepy but he was like that. he was just he was a funny, warm, nice person or is. i m just saying back then. right. and then on top of it, i think he s somebody that holds an important place in american history and he has this long experience in history that other people just don t have. and you hear him talk there in the interview with jake last year how fortunate to in his
all the time in the studio. he was not the best co-worker, and, you know, he s very aggressive towards people. he couldn t take criticism, and he took it personally, and at the station he was let go and threw a huge tantrum that caused a lot of our co-workers to fear our own safety. there were like we were in a lockdown the day that he was fired, and a few days later we had like police detail that kind of watched over the station because we didn t know the extent of i guess his mental illness. hang on a second. i ve seen people be fired and i ve seen human resources be killed and i ve seen people being walked out of buildings but your building was on lockdown because of this. when you say he threw a tan trim, be specific. well, i wasn t there. i came in like a few hours later after the tantrum and the aftermath of the tantrum was there use newsroom desk,