finance laws and implicated trump. >> replacing gorge this week is my chief financial operate, allen weiselberg. you think george is to you. wait until you see allen. >> reporter: he has worked for trump for decades, as one employee puts it, he knows where every every of the proverbial financial bodies are buried. he personally gave trump updates on these matters. a source says his interview with versions took place weeks ago and focused on cohen and the hush money payments with two women claiming to have affairs with trump, which he denies. >> i spoke to allen about it. >> reporter: weiselberg figures prominently in the secret recording cohen released last month of a conversation he had with trump two months be every the 2016 presidential election to former playboy model karen mcdougal. >> i spoke to allen weiselberg how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> reporter: another person mentioned on that tape, national enquirer chief david pecker. a long-time friend of trump's, who also received an up mient deal. according to "wall street journal," he told prosecutors trump was aware of the d

president trump telling allen weiselberg, the chief financial officer, did not betray him by cooperatingthe mueller investigation. weiselberg received immunity over the hush money paid to stormy daniels. the president doesn't seem concerned about the cfo talking. >> 100%. he is a wonderful guy. it was a very limited little period of time. >> trump refused to say whether he knew before the election about the stormy daniels payment despite past claims he did not. trump knocked the threat of democrats trying to impeach him. saying i don't think they can impeach somebody doing a great job. he says it would set a precedent making it too easy to remove future presidents. >>> president trump defending his response to john mccain's passing. telling bloomberg he did not miss a chance to unite the country. >> we had our disagreements. they were strong disagreements. i disagreed with many of the things i assumed he believed in. with that said, i respect his service to the country. >> the white house press secretary sarah sanders was in the room. as he was giving the interview. mr. trump joked he wa

president trump telling allen weiselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization, did perating with the mueller investigation. weiselberg received immunity over the hush money paid to stormy daniels. the president doesn't seem concerned about the cfo talking. >> 100%. he is a wonderful guy. it was a very limited little period of time. >> trump refused to say whether he knew before the election about the stormy daniels payment despite past claims he did not. trump knocked the threat of democrats trying to impeach him. saying i don't think they can impeach somebody doing a great job. he says it would set a precedent making it too easy to remove future presidents. >>> today is deadline day for nafta. u.s. and canada making a push to modernize the trade agreement. trump telling bloomberg the two are close, but may not be today. u.s., mexico and canada reworking nafta for more than a year. canada rejoined the talks after months on the sidelines. now canada and the u.s. must come together and president trump pledging the deal is better for the u.s. >> we are replacing nafta w

in a recording released by his attorney earlier this summer. >> spoken to allen weiselberg. >> reporter: he is referenced about the payoff. >> i spoke to allen about it with the financing. >> what financing? >> we have to pay. >> pay cash. >> no, no, no, no, no. >> reporter: that conversation cut off. now at the white house, another conversation has been called off. for now. the one with the u.s. and north korea. the president unexpectedly pressing pause on the talks on twitter. two days after praising the singapore summit. he is acknowledging what people hinted at for weeks. the negotiations hit a hurdle. now donald trump will say secretary of state will not travel to pyongyang for failure to turn up the heat on kim jong-un. >> hallie, we saw the war of words escalate with trump and sessions. sessions released a statement saying he would not be influenced by political considerations. how did the president respond? >> reporter: on twitter. not surprising after the attorney general declaration. the president did not insult his attorney general, but seemed to tell him how to do his job. e

first it was the ceo of the publisher of the nation"nationa enquire enquirer", now allen weiselberg hasnity by federal prosecutors in the probe involving president trump's former lawyer michael cohen. this comes days after cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including campaign finance violations >>> the u.s. government says new sanctions on russia including the termination of some arms sales and finance willing go into effect monday those sanctions are tied to what the state department claims was moscow's use of the nerve gas in the uk against a former russian agent and his daughter procter & gamble says it's applied to trademark internet acronyms such as lol and wtf for use on its open and cleaning products png's board member nelson peltz urged the company to attract millennial consumers and l.l. bean says it's donating $3 million to the national park foundation's find your park initiative as an effort to encourage people to explore the more than 400 national parks, the company's slogan is "be an outsider." melissa, back to you. >>> what the heck is png going to do with wtf

allen. tell us about weiselberg, it seems we got the chief bookkeeper, the chief financial officer, he's so close to the family, he's the only one not a family at the top of the trump organization. what's his immunity, give him the allowance to tell without prosecution and also makes him basically vulnerable. he can't take the fifth anymore. >> first off, weiselberg, this is a guy who's been at the trump organization since fred trump was running the show. when donald trump took office he turned over the running of the government to three people, donald trump jr. michael cohen and weiselberg. it's not entirely clear what he told prosecutors. but what we do know is, with michael cohen's plea deal, prosecutors said they had witness testimony to back up what he was saying, what he was admitting in court, and now we're learning from that testimony, that it was david weiselberg and michael cohn. >> you're donald trump, you are president of the united states, that's a big deal. but at the same time, offsetting being a big deal and being president of the united states, you have this coming at you,