trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric f. trump and the donald j. trump foundation. for more than a decade the donald j. trump foundation has operated in persistent violation of state and federal law. this pattern of illegal conduct by the foundation and its board members includes improper extensive political activity repeated and willful self-dealing transactions and failure to follow basic fike pu obligations or to implement form formalities required by law. alleging the trump foundation that before trump ran for president he used his foundation as a fake charitable enterprise that only benefited himself. once he started running for president he basically converted his foundation into a fake charitable foundation that didn't just benefit himself anymore and now a vehicle for making illegal campaign expenditures on behalf of his campaign for president. when she filed that lawsuit in june, a lot of the allegations she made against trump's foundation were familiar, particularly to anybody who followed david farenthold's pull listser price report in the west in which he

and the trump world, donald trump jr., eric trump, since they were the ones along with weisselberg after the election who were in charge of the trump organization, how worried are they all this evening? >> i would say pretty much 100%. this guy was right at the center, super loyal, eyes down, he was -- when i interviewed him, very -- a low profile but, you know, meticulous guy, totally focused on getting -- you know, doing the best for the trump organization in terms of taxes and everything else. but he knew it all, he knew it all. >> seth, let me ask you a little bit about weisselberg and the fact that he has sought immunity, don't know if it was necessarily something they offered initially, or something he sought and the feds ultimately offered it to him. what does that tell you the fact that they were willing to grant him immunity, that he has immunity, what kind of he may have and what it is investigators can be looking for that he would know. >> he may have the keys to the castle. i mean, in white collar criminal prosecutions an

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and that's where it should stop. >> donald trump has to listen to that. a trump voter, a strong trump supporter still, who is ready to vote for donald trump again is telling the president of the united states not to pardon paul manafort because she studied the evidence in the manafort case and decided paul manafort was guilty of everything, everything. forget what rudy giuliani says to the president about pardoning paul manafort. what paula duncan says is much, much more powerful. the paula duncans of this country are now donald trump's worst political nightmare. paula duncan was supposed to think it was all a witch hunt, that paul manafort didn't do anything wrong, that truth isn't truth. but the brainwashing didn't work. donald trump and rudy giuliani pumped all of those messages into the propaganda fog that was supposed to make trump supporters unable to see the truth. it didn't work. paula duncan took an oath to put aside any sympathies or biases that she might have and evaluate the evidence placed before her and that is exactly what she did. and so donald trump has to worry tonig

trump, trump, mrtrump!! say that, only in the last week mr trump, trump, mr trump! : what you like. there has been a bit of a squabble with rwanda. they say they don't want the us‘s second—hand clothes because it is destroying their textile industry. exactly. but also the point that there is that huge question about china, is china still a developing countries, because they still receive huge amounts in aid, and yet they are invest in places like africa. that is the same with india. india has got a space programme. does it do foreign aid? one of the point of this, talking to a ministerfrom nigeria, we can do all this, we are ready to develop, we are falling down on infrastructure. let's just say these british businesses go to some of these african countries and the infrastructure is not there. is that going to grind to a halt in terms of investing? not necessarily, because if you then are in a partnership, but it is a much more equal partnership than the one of the charitable communicable we are going to give you this because you can't do it yourself, actually i know somebody who do

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trump jr. >> experts are looking at whether donald trump jr. could face legal trouble because of what rudy guiliani said about the trump tower meeting in 2016. g to defend donald trump jr. brought more attention to conflicting accounts of the meeting, accounts that are drawing attention to a potential violation of the law. >> are you bored of winning? >> reporter: tonight, public scrutiny over the president's eldest son is intensifying. questions whether he could face legal trouble for the fateful trump tower meeting, gaining more attention. issuing a passionate defense of donald trump jr., the president's attorney, rudy guiliani, in denying any collusion says trump jr. didn't know before the june, 2016 trump tower meeting that natalia veselnitskaya would represent the kremlin in the meeting. >> they didn't know she was a representative of the russian government and indeed she is not. this is much ado about nothing. >> reporter: cnn reported that veselnitskaya did have ties to the kremlin at the time of the meeting. part of rudy guiliani's defense is that he didn't get dirt on hillary clinton. >> i don't know if they knew she was russian at t

trump is running out of hiding places. the other two executives who run the trump organization with allen weisselberg and who run the trump trust from which allen weisselberg ordered the cohen reimbursements be paid, they're both named trump. where are prosecutors going to go next? joining us now is david fahrenthold, "washington post" reporter, winner of a pulitzer prize for his coverage of the workings of the trump foundation and organization. david, great to have you with us. thank you for being with us. thank you for your reporting. i don't know if we can overstate how important allen weisselberg is to the trump organization to the trump foundation and donald trump. it's a name we didn't know until a few weeks ago from the tape with michael cohen, but this guy has been with donald trump from the beginning. >> donald trump treated all points of his personal empire -- personal expenses, company, charity -- as one big pot of money and the person who oversaw all that pot of money was allen weisselberg. he would bring in checks individually for donald trump to sign. he didn't have a lot of executive responsibility, but he h

trump did not become a citizen until 11 years after her marriage to donald trump. ivanka trump's mother told her story about getting into the united states in a book written last year with her daughter working in a white house that was trying to deport people like her mother when her mother was working at a ski resort in vermont. and the first mrs. trump told that story innocently and openly just last year because she trusted that we would all understand and accept everything that she did, including every violation of law from austrian law to canadian law to american law to find a better life for herself in this country. and that is a truly american story. it was then. and it still is now. ivanka trump owes her very existence to her mother's dream for a better life in america. and now ivanka trump and her father are trying to crush that dream for anyone who comes to this country the way ivanka trump's mother did. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and

trump organization's chief financial officer. he's been with the company for decades. he's even worked with trump's father before he joined trump's organization. he -- when trump became the president, he put weisselberg in control of the company along with the two sons and his knowledge is not just at the trump organization. he's helped prepare donald trump's taxes and he's a treasurer of the trump found decision and the ties with donald trump are very deep, wolf. >> know about the specifics of the immunity deal? >> reporter: right, wolf. a source tells us that weisselberg was given immunity for the testimony. he went in and testified about several weeks ago. the questions were focused on michael cohen and the payments that surrounding those hush money payments to women and that weisselberg not called back to testify so it appears as though it's limited and of course we can't rule out that there could be other things or other areas that the prosecutors would want to talk to him about. >> you know, one other thing, kara. he might not be the only legal concern for the trump administration right now. talk about that. >> reporter: la

he's not going to go out there and say trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. just not who he is. but what will his message be? >> i think his message to democrats is they have to show up so they can counter the trump's policies. first account of them and then start moving in a general direction. barack obama left the democratic party with its, you know, smallest footprint in this country in history in terms of legislative seats in congress and the presidency having flipped to republicans. and that's not necessarily a reflection on the american public's feelings about him, but certainly the reaction in some cases to his policies, the inability of democrats beyond him to win elections. >> i also wonder if just him showing up, just him being there, being barack obama, doesn't send a message to the base, remember what a different kind of presidency looked like, and if that's not motivating, just in and of itself. we shall see. thank you, lynn, thank you, jonathan, appreciate it. >> thank you, chris. >> he's called the sandy hook shooting a hoax. now families say a

let's be real, trump is trump. he was trump. he will be trump. d feel at home. pretty at the awful. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we have a good sense obviously of what mr. mcghan testified to i can figure it out. >> the president is worried he's got a rat in the white house. >> do you intend to communicate with the special counsel, mr. mcghan in. >> tonight the white house testimony to the mueller probe and the furious reaction from donald trump. then -- >> i always liked michael. >> the president's former fixer michael cohen nation potential criminal charges on bank fraud. >> he'll lie like crazy, he's lied all his life. >> the manafort jury back to

trumps back to the 1970s. he was an accountant for president trump's father, fed trump, and then moved over to the donald trump organization. weisselberg overasaw many of donald trump's transactions as well as the purchase of planes and boats. the former assistant attorney general who helped lead the prosecution of trump university says weisselberg is the single most indispensable person in the trump organization. in that case, weisselberg knew where every dollar came from in the trump organization and controlled where every dollar went. over the years weisselberg has kept a low profile. one former colleague says that, quote, wei sselberg fits in wit the wallpaper but seems to be a household name. >>> three long-time trump confidants flipping to use his word on the president. allen weisselberg, the money man, david pecker, the tabloid boss, all cooperating with authorities about the secret hush money payouts to the women in 2016 election. we'll bring in senior political analyst rod brownstein. ron, what a week this was. and all we're hearing from republicans is crickets. what gives? >> crickets. right. first o

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trump. he was a candidate who broke the rules. you get in trouble eventually. they put no fire walls between the trump campaign, trumpharity or the family. now you have the national enquirer. i don't know how it survives this or how the trump organization survives this. once you get in there there are supposed to be fire walls between all entities. there are supposed to be certain ways you interact with media. this is all mingled together in one big mess. the fact that the cfo has immunity and david pecker has immunity should tell you that they have something big to give up. >> i think what it gets to is with the cfo on the hook this business is largely built on some illegal behavior, money laundering, so on. what i continue to wonder is if some of what we are looking at now is almost a side show, the women, covering it up, even the conversations with russia. if there is anything i take away is it is trump is in close contact with his people. no way he didn't know about the conversations with russia. at the end of the day what he will protect over everything else is the money and the organization. i continue to think

trump has tried to distance himself from manafort -- that is expected. but remember that manafort was l ought in as the campaign manager at a critime. he had trump's trust. trump had his trust. we already know some of the things manafort reported have not been true, like contacts with russia -- we know there was a meeting with trump tower. jane: on that subject, what do 'u make of the president' comments that collusion isn't a crime, but there was no collusion? michael: he can read the federal code. collusion is not listed, but conspiracy against the united states is a crime, obstruction is a crime. the money chnages against rt are crimes. they want to mince words and convince the public that since collusion is not identifcrd as a federae, there is no case here. that is missing the mark and throwing a smoke screen in front of the truth. irat is important here is to recognize that cony is a crime. that at the funny joke of the day is what -- that at the end of the date is what bob mueller is pursuing. this is the first building block of the foundation as we move jane: how much pressure do you think manafort is under, because this is the first of two trials he f

> michael cohen said, and pleaded to, he did this directed by president trump, coordinated by president trump then candidate trumpaffect the election. but the president's defenders have argued and again this is an odd defense but this guy's been paying off women to keep their mouths shut for a listening time, not just women, other people, too. not necessarily related to the presidential election. do they have an argument to make? >> they have to come up with something. john edwards made a similar argument having to do with my girlfriend, not campaign. but the timing and the circumstances are so different and the edwards case, it was months if not years removed and it was a current girlfriend. this was people he had affairs with allegedly ten years ago on the very doorstep of the election so the timing's very different and the actions mr. trump took to make the payments, through the attorney, through a corporation. prosecutors argue would be to disguise the nature of the transaction, all circumstantial evidence of wrongdoing or criminal intent. >> cohen said in court that trump directed limb him to quie women. why

trump in here, the president? he said, no, i didn't. so i think donald trump decides >>> i said troy, did you invite trump in here, the president? he said, no, i didn't. so i think donald trump decides where he wants to go and i think they're firing up the base, but i have to tell you, at the same time he comes in here, i was with some women last night who said, hey, i'm not voting. and they're republicans. i'm not voting for the republicans. see, this is the problem the party has now. >> that of course is the sitting governor of ohio, john kasich this week on abc news discussing president trump's involvement in tomorrow's special election in his state. as the governor noted. some republicans are worried the president could hurt some gop candidates and not help. take for example the president's decision to endorse the secretary of state for kansas chris kobach. he's been an outspoken supporter of president trump. he's challenging the incumbent governor of kansas jeff collierc if kobach advances he could have a tough time winning the general election come november. we are joined by two of our frequent contributors. the one great t

leadership and management of the trump organization to his sons don and eric and a long-time trump executive allen weisselberg. >> immunity for allen weisselberg, the man trump business along with his sons. >> don, eric, and allen are committed to ensuring that the activities of the trump organization are beyond reproach. >> the man who allegedly helped cohen with his hot money payoff. >> i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> what are we going to pay? >> funding. >> the man who has been trump's money man for decades. >> my chief financial officer allen weisselberg. wait until you see allen. >> tonight, why this immunity deal could be the biggest catch yet. >> mr. president, whatoe

a good lawyer, frankly. >> during the campaign, trump enlisted cohen as one of his foot shoal joldiers. tasked with defending trump, and showering trumpse are rallies. >> i want to tell you about the real donald trump, the man who i have been fortunate enough to work for and stand by shoulder to shoulder for a decade. >> i'm not so sure that's true. i worked for mr. trump now for a long time. don't throw the punch unless you're prepared to get hit back. >> he's friends with everybody. everybody gets along with trump. >> until he isn't. >> until they do something wrong to him. >> as the son of a holocaust survivor, it's hard to sit back, actually it's morally wrong to sit back and do nothing when someone who you know, someone who you hold in great esteem and truly care about, is being so viciously attacked. >> in all fairness, who hasn't said something or done something that they regret, simply trying to protect somebody that they care about? >> investigative reporter david k. johnson joins us now. he's written a few books about trump including "it's even worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing to america." david,

whether you like '70s donald trump, lifestyles of the rich and famous donald trump, 8'80s donald trump them on a scale. of wrongdoing. let's just say everything is wrong. i'm just -- i'm just generalizing here. there is the scale, like donald trump would weigh the scale down and would be like a seesaw and hillary clinton would go flying off. i'm just wondering, is this just pure misogyny, people won't say it? >> people have hated hillary clinton. and responded extremely viscerally negatively from the minute she arrived on the political scene in 1992, long before anyone was suggesting he was corrupt. remember, back then it was the idea she wouldn't bake cookies -- >> she was standing by her man. remember that? >> right. she has been always as potential woman president and as a feminist a tremendous threat to the established order and coming on the heels of barack obama who represented a -- >> a tremendous threat. >> -- profound shift. the conversation, i remember going to the 20 16 republican convention and looking at the paraphernalia sold outside. i'm telling you it was near pornograp

trump is smaller than people think. the fraction terrify offend trump's base and trump tweeting mean things of them or fox news turning onhumiliation and problems and issues. they ask what you think about this. they tell you it's typical of trump in every way. lack the moral courage to stand and you happen say directly into the cameras this president is engaging in things that are overtly racial. i've always said racism is ultimate lay white people problem. they created the problem. i know people don't like to say that. it's true. that's what we have to understand in this country. >> wow, what a time to be alive. >> thank you all for being here. hope you will come back. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> so good to see you again. i m

trump. he just ordered the press to stop thinking about it. today john brennan referred to donald trump, the trump campaign and the trump businesses as trump incorporated. probably with the intentional echo of the criminal gangs that the news media used to call murder incorporated. craig unger calls it the house of trump. the book describes what he calls the greatest intelligence operation of our time. the book tells how the russian government targeted and compromised donald trump for over 30 years by use trump real estate as a way to launder millions of dollars for the russian mafia. joining us now is greg unger. john brennan says of course there was collusion. of course there was. and we have all seen enough to understand even what the cia director means when he says that. john brennan knows more than we know. does it meet the legal standard. based on your study of the house of trump, as you call it, over all of these years, what do you think are the most important things the special prosecutor is finding in the russian connections? >> well, i went back to -- i think this is really the greatest

policies and then executing the trump policies fell to other incompetence in the trump white house, steve bannon, steve miller and the incompetent trump cabinet. who can forget donald trump's homeland security secretary in her confirmation hearing lying under oath about norway? >> norway is a predominantly white country, isn't it? >> i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. >> her white immigrant ancestors are from skand knave yeah, and she actually pretended to know nothing, which is a level of incompetence that is hard to believe even from a trump secretary of homeland security. tonight omarosa stands accused of incompetence, not just by those who knew she didn't have the competence to work in the white house but by the president that hired her to work in the white house, the president that promised his supporters that he would not hire people like the person he has spent all day attacking. >> we've got the best people. >> i know the best people. >> we're going to use our best people. >> the best people. >> i know guys that are so good. >> it's hard to rank the importance of the lies candidate trump told, bu

trump world. it is trump's way of saying to racist voters, i am one of you. i, too, hate these black people. from barack obama, whose birth donald trump starting lying about in 2011, so his latest target lebron james. it is donald trump's willingness and eagerness to express those racist thoughts publically that so thrills donald trump's most racist supporters like former ku klux klan leader david duke. the fact that donald trump has been attacked on programs like this for seven years is part of the thrill for the hard-core racists who do support this president. in the past, the most extreme racist voters had to listen to political code language to find the candidate closest to their views, but not donald trump. the racists have loved him from the day he started lying about barack obama's birth. donald trump is president today because he squeaked out a win in the electoral college. donald trump knows he cannot afford to lose a single one of the voters. he knows he could not have been elected president without that block of voters in his support base that includes the racist vote. donald trump needs the racist vote. and so donald trump

trump and with me. >> fact check, jeff sessions does run the justice department. i'll ask another member, congresswoman maxine waters about the corrupt trump -- >>> donald trump has decided a good strategy to help republicans keep control of congress is to focus on my next guest, congresswoman maxine waters. he has repeatedly called waters the leader of the democratic party and at it last nights in virginia and on her 80th birthday he sarcastically tweeted happy birthday to the leader the democratic party, maxine waters. she is not the lead over the democratic party but has been one of the fiercest critics of the president from the beginning. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> you have been, i would say, out front and outspoken about your belief that the president is worthy of impeachment, is a criminal, has surrounded himself with criminals. i would wonder about your thinking after yesterday. >> i'm thinking this is just the tip of the iceberg, that, yes, manafort was convicted on eight counts and cohen came in and pleaded guilty to eight counts. i have felt this, basically taken a look at this whole crowd, these allies of the president, their relationshi

trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "listen, obviously, with, like, 'the new york times' article and stuff, you know, it's, it's - " omarosa manigault-newman: "what's the new york times article?"lara trump/ president trump's daughter-in-law: "the one that -- the one that -- it was in the new york times today. i guess you didn't - with maggie haberman, or they wrote about you. it sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you've got in the back pocket to pull out. clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can't have -- we got to - "omarosa manigault-newman: "oh, god, no."lara trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "everybody positive, right? so, the only thing that we have to consider, where we're talking salary, as far as the campaihign ing is public. um, and that all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors. small donor dollars for the most part."lara trump / president trump's daughter-in-law: "so i know you were making 179 at the white house. and i think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines. um, specifically, let me see, i haven't even added up the numbers. but we were talking about, like, 15k

that the activities of the trump organization are beyond reproach. >> and earlier on this network a former trump campaign adviser detailed allen weisselberg's role in the trump organization. >> allen as far as i know has been with the president, then mr. trump, the trump organization, since the '60s since it was based in brooklyn. allen on the 26th floor, he had his own thiefdom. he had multiple people working for him. there was a large accounting office there. they all report to him. i am sure allen got frequent -- had to give frequent reports to then mr. trump about the trump organization. >> weisselberg is the latest piece to fall bringing there case closer to that man as shannon pettypiece of bloomberg writes trump's "sense of invulnerability is in for its biggest test as he suddenly must defend against grave threats. the threat is intensifying as trump confronts a midterm referendum on his presidency. that plus a feeling of betrayal may have motivated this from the president just yesterday. >> this whole thing about flipping they call it, i know all about flipping. for 30, 40, years i've been watching flippers. everything's wonderful and then they get t

trump. there have been presidents that are slippery on the race issue, that didn't move the arc of justice forward, that took a step back, but donald trump has a career of just doing racially insensitive and hateful comments towards people. we have to realize, he just doesn't like mexican-americans. he doesn't like anybody of color. he doesn't like african-americans. he doesn't like lgbt people. he doesn't really want you here if you are from haiti or nigeria or elsewhere. there is no way around the fact that donald trump is a bigot and a racist. his excuse is is that economy is doing well, that's just trump being trump, but i think it's starting to accumulate. we could go on for an hour here. the midterm elections are coming, and we will see, if the republicans lose congress, democrats get ahold of it, they very well will move to impeach him and he will go down in history on the bottom rung of presidents like james buchanan or warren harding and maybe the worst president of all-time. so, i don't really feel he has oxygen in his tank when he's running at 40% approval rating, when the economy is doing this well, but it stuns me, don, that so many republicans are timid. where is george w. bush to denounce the racism? where are other republicans, last friday, who should have been defending john mccain, the great war hero, when donald trumputter his name in a military service like that? the cowardness of republicans right now is what shocks me. because donald trump's always been a charlatan who created tru

bombshell is something that lakes a lot more sense than the trump team's original theory, which is trump believes there's no investigation, trump goes into meeting with comey and asks comey to let go of an investigation that as far as trump is aware does not exist. >> and so john, this reporting if true, is yet another really clear block on the issue of is donald trump ever going to sit down for an interview with the special prosecutor. you and i are have been saying all along he's never going do it. but this is the kind of thing that shows you why it's been impossible, because the trump team has known for over a year that priebus and mcgahn say and have told the special prosecutor that they told donald trump that the fbi investigation was ongoing. and so how does donald trump handle that? in any kind of interchange with the special prosecutor. >> because just like the word collusion and the word conspiracy are not in robert mueller's remit and obstruction of justice is not in it neither is the word perjury. perjury's a big problem for donald trump not only because he's a liar but because he's already told so many lies that so

trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, says trump later reimbursed cohen. on april 13th, president trumpalled michael cohen to, quote, check in before cohen appeared in court regarding his office raid. before trump became president, there was nearly constant contact between the two men. >> believe me, michael cohen got calls at 3:00 in the morning. michael and i would be at dinner. the boss would be calling him. >> sure. >> all the time. >> reporter: those days are long gone, replaced by a bitter feud, magnified after cohen released a secret audio recording in which he and trump spoke about a payment related to a playboy model's story about her alleged affair with trump. >> when it comes time for the financing, which will be -- >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay -- >> won't pay with cash? >> no, no, no. >> reporter: to donald trump, it was the ultimate betrayal, the president tweeting, what kind of a lawyer would tape a client? so sad. the relationship soured even more after a revelation that cohen was prepared to tell robert mueller that then-candidate trump knew in advance about t

to the fullest. >>> cnn is learning that president trump is being urged by aides to stop tweeting about donald trump, jr.'s 2016 meeting at trumper with a russian lawyer. so let's bring in now cnn contributor michael d'antonio the author of "the truth about trump." good evening, sir. you wrote a great piece tonight in this title, to protect himself trump is willing to undermine his son. you say the president will do the unthinkable for most people, betray his son to protect his own hide? >> oh, i most definitely think he would. you know, think about being donald trump's son. it must be the most disorienting thing a person can go through. a father is supposed to provide a stable environment, to provide moral guidance, help form the character of a child. donald trump is a serial liar who's betrayed everyone in his life. he demands loyalty but gives none. he's entirely malformed morally. i don't think you could think of a worse parent for a child. this young man goes into adult life trying to please this man. and figure out what the right thi thing to do is. no wonder he exhibited such poor judgment by attendance this meeting at t

trump tower. that meeting donald trump jr. agreed to hoping he would get dirt on hillary clinton. that meeting the trumps admitted to after "the new york times" reported on it. well, today president trump's explanation of that meeting is changing once again. in july of 2017, the president via his son claimed it was about the adoption of russian children, adding there was no follow-up. well, fast forward to today and the president is admitting his son attended it to get information on an opponent. well, today one of the president's attorneys is also backtracking. here is jay sekulow then and now. >> the president wasn't aware of the meeting, did not participate in the meeting. the statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump jr. i am sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn't involved. >> i had bad information. i made a mistake. in a situation like this you have, over time, facts develop. i got that one wrong. >> to give you a sense of the importance of those 278 characters, a former congresswoman who voted on richard nixon's impeachment. >> this is the news tighte

trump. allen weisselberg is currently in a position in the trump organization. he's the person in charge when trump stepped away from his businesses and became president, he put his sons and allen in charge of his businesses. now the question is, what happens now? how does this upend trump world, an organization that's currently still, you know, chugging along without the president? i think it really raises a lot of questions going forward about the future for allen in that organization. >> right. and the president famously -- i mean, you talked about this red line and what he would do, president trump saying this would be a red line. here he is talking to "the new york times." >> mueller was looking at your finances, your family's finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of his actual -- >> i would say yeah. >> but carl, it isn't up to the president to draw red lines with these investigations. >> yeah, i said earlier, we've seen this movie before, and it's the untouchables. the feds always want to get the bookkeeper. that's where the person who really knows where

trump organization for a very long time. we know how much president trump then candidate trump and private trump at the top of the organization, how much he prizes loyalty. >> absolutely. >> so that speaks to weisselberg i suppose, the fact that he has been with him so lodge. but is this proof that loyalty only runs so deep? >> i think loyalty is something we should all think about what it means. you are loyal to a person for many reasons. but not for reasons that have to do with worker or anything that is illegal or even immoral, unethical. i don't think that anybody has the right to tee mademand loyal that kind of thing. certainly loyalty in terms of working together, doing the right thing, keeping secrets when needed to be kept, running the business properly, those are the kinds of things i think loyal i did should ty should be turning in someone that did something wrong. but again, in this case, i don't think that allen necessarily is in that role. i think it is more that he knows where money went and where it came from, and also he may know something about whether or not there is russian money involved in any of this and

of the wash post who wrote -- trump confirmed the friends that he is worried the mueller probe would ruin the lives of innocent and decent people, namely trump jr. trump's latest reveal -- trump's latest tweets reveal that he has ignited this controversy over the june 9, 2016 meeting over reports that mueller is looking closely at that gathering as well as the president's twitter feed. first,ual 8 of 2017, a statement issued on behalf of don junior, the meeting was primarily about russian adoptions. a day later after the "new york times" reported don junior was offered damaging information on hillary clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. later, e-mails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging e-mail on hillary clinton. quote, if it's what you say, i love it. to get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. the information they suggested they had about hillary clinton i thought was political opposition research. just after this we heard this from trump's lawyer. >> the statement released was donald trump jr. and his lawyers. the president was not involve in

donald trump can't keep his little twitter fingers still and he might have stumbled into a complete game changer in russia gate and the infamous trump tower meeting. trump tweeted this morning "this was a meeting to get investigation on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. it went nowhere. i do not know about it. well, that significantly contradicts a written statement from trump on behalf of donald trump jr. about the purpose of that meeting which we were told was the adoption of russian childre children. >> when you look at a meeting that took place over a year ago, what rule or regulation? nobody has pointed to one. >> let's go to jonathan capeh t capehart, david jolly and joining me by phone, msnbc legal