rick getz, cohen, george papadopoulos, david pecker and now allen weisselberg.oining us with more now is shimon procupez. what are you learning about why investigators are speaking with allen weisselberg? >> really, the key is the money. weisselberg controlled the flow of the money. he's named as an executive in the court documents. they don't name him by name, but in the charging documents that michael cohen, that the court filed in regards to michael cohen, he's in there. he's referred to as executive one, and it essentially says he reimbursed michael cohen for some of the hush money payment. it's understandable why the government would want to seek him at the very least as a witness. what's interesting is you have between weisselberg and pecker who apparently also has been cooperating and has been given immunity, you have all these people who were around the president who either have been facing charges or perhaps could have faced charges in this deal. they have all had to worry about this. but, really, one person and the ultimate person who would have had to

andsteinbeck it's allen andsteinbeck school in the santa teresa neighborhood.t promise charter parents are not happy... they had hoped for space at horace mann or several other downtown schools. yolanda bernal-samano "....transportation wise it's just not going to work, we had hoped the district would come around andgive us one of the schools in the downtown area..." (grant) (grant) but the district says those are elementrty schools and do not have appropriate facilities for middle school age students. a spokesman for promise charter says it is committed to working with the district to hopefully work something out for nextyear. but this fall, the families signed up for promise charter will returnto their neighborhood schools. (vicki) a big story we're following. a u-s appeals court dealt a blow to president trump's executive order threatening to withhold funding from sanctuary cities. the ninth u-s circuit court of appeals ruled the order was unconstitutional. but also limited a nationwide ban on its enforcement. an expert on court procedure says the president

>> about allen? he may have known it since it happened a while ago. but as far as what he is thinking about these people continuing on him, i think he is probably extremely angry, maybe a little surprised, although i don't think he should be surprised. >> right. because as you point out, this has been building as part of not only the mueller probe, but as we've learned more and more about cohen being under investigation in the southern district of new york. so tristan, let me ask you, when we talk about this individual being granted immunity and now we know his specific involvement in the trump organization and directly tied to the financial side of the organization, what information would be useful to investigators? >> the thing is that weisselberg did in fact know where every nickle came in, he knows where every nickle went out. he was actually involved with making business decisions regarding different wings of the trump organization. anything that they were doing, he would know exactly where those payments were made. so you know, i think with rega

what allen weisselberg has told them. >>> and also news coming from the family of john mccain. the personal decision. >>> the powerful hurricane striking now. and this evening, the images coming in from hawaii. more than 40 inches of rain expected. life threatening floods, and charged with spending campaign money, money from voters, at costco, on their kids' tuition, on a trip to italy. tonight, the congressman now turning on his wife, suggesting it was her. >>> the highway sniper. authorities say he was specifically targeting women drivers. several women hit. >>> outrage tonight. a police officer struggling with a suspect he believed was reaching for his gun. and a security guard is now accused of simply standing there, recording the whole thing. >>> and, it was the era of "dallas" and "dynasty." but this was the man who got us inside. tonight, we remember. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us to end another week. we begin the headline that broke regarding president trump. another close ally of president trump is now cooperating with prosecutors. the man who has ov

debora allen sits on the bart board of directors. she says what they have learned so far from this pilot enforcement program is that the problem is worse than they thought. sound from - debora allen - bart director district 1the problem is worse than we thought, a lot of evaders. in just two months 15% of those riders asked had not paid their bart ride. fare evasion is the gateway crime, it's very unlikely that a person who commits a crime in september bart police will be presenting the bart board of directors an official update on this pilot program and provide numbers showing it's success or failure so it's early to judge it. but debora allen says the money could be better spent. sound from - debora allen - bart director district 1why not have those officers at the gates of the stations getting people, or invest in making the gates and entry points more secure, people ride the elevators up and skip the gates, we have emergency exits left open people can walk through all day long" (ken) the two men being charged in the deadly ghost

david, let's talk more about allen weisselberg.his is the man who knows where every dollar goes within mr. trump's business world. how significant is it now that he has been granted immunitimmu? >> in week of shocking developments, this is yet another stunner because here is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried financially speaking and has worked for the trump organization for i think at least two decades. so it is a very signature development. and the fact that he was given immunity meant that he had to talk. and he probably gif a lave a lo information and also a lot of documents and the testimony to make it clear how you that all fits together regarding trump and the organization. >> we don't know the extent of how far this goes beyond the cohen investigation, but the bigger question, how might this fit within the broader investigation? >> well, right, once he has immunity, he has to talk. his only peril at that point is to lie, so it makes no sense and i'm sure he has very good counsel which has told him that you ca

allen has been with me for 30 years. and knows how to get things done. that says it all.oint and joey's point, remember the other thing of an immunity deal. donald trump has nothing to offer him. there is no pardon. he doesn't need a pardon. so there is absolutely no incentive not to completely cooperate. >> right. rachel, you remember last year the president said if they start investigating his business, personal life, family business, that's a red line. they cross that, he didn't say what he would do but certainly a red line but as you know whether it's tax fraud, bank fraud or other potential financial related crimes, you have to follow the money and that clearly is what these prosecutors are doing right now. >> that's right, wolf. starting to see why trump officials were more concerned for a long time of going on in new york with the payments than the russian collusion story dominating the headlines for most of the past year. this is escalating very quickly and clearly this is why he said, you know, my trump organization's financial information red line. don't go ther

and now, allen weisselberg has been granted immunity as well, and has answered questions. president trump and the first lady leaving the white house today. tonight, this man so close to the president's finances. what does he know, and the line of questioning we know he has already answered. here's pierre thomas, leading us off. >> reporter: he is the most powerful person in the trump organization not named trump, at the president's side for decades, even rewarded with a star turn on "the apprentice." >> replacing george this week is my chief financial officer allen weisselberg. and if you think george is tough, wait until you see allen. >> reporter: but tonight, we are learning allen weisselberg has been cooperating with federal prosecutors investigating the president's longtime attorney and fixer michael cohen and hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels and "playboy" playmate karen mcdougal. and in exchange for his help in the cohen case, weisselberg was granted immunity. prosecutors say when the president's personal attorney michael cohen paid off daniels just da

allen weisselberg's immunity applies to the michael cohen investigation. it was cohen who implicated the president in the payments to two women to cover up alleged affairs. peter nicolas is the white house reporter for "the wall street journal," which first reported this late-breaking development. so weisselberg is described as someone who, quote, knows where all the financial bodies are buried. peter, how significant is this grant of immunity? >> well, it's very significant, wolf. weisselberg is chief financial officer for the trump organization. he's been with the company for decades. president trump put weisselberg in charge of the organization along with the president's sons when donald trump became president. so he's a pillar of the president's financial wealth, his strength, and he's been essentially knocked away potentially by the prosecutors. so it's a very significant development here. >> yeah, i've always believed ever since allen weisselberg's name came up, peter -- yes, david pecker of "the national enquirer" probably knows something. but weiss

cohen comes to trump and he says, i'm going to set this up through allen weisselberg. so we know he's there at the inception as david points out. that's the potential for conspiracy liability. yeah, and again, like many of trump's associates who have been with him forever, he's a man in his 70s. a criminal conviction on taxes might be equivalent to a life sentence. the pressure is enormous on both the federal and state side. he really -- in order to talk, he needed immunity, and they gave it to him. >> david and harry, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> and coming up, during donald trump's worst week, he continued to attack his own attorney general, who happens to be the only attorney general of the united states who has voted to impeach a president of the united states. we will hear jeff sessions' standard for impeaching a president in his own words. >>> and later, what's in the pecker safe? two people who worked for david pecker at "the national enquirer" will join us to discuss the kinds of things david pecker was h

people like allen weisselberg are great and proven themselves over many years. kirsten, obviously things are changing a little bit. whether we look at what was written in 2007 and where we stand today. loyalty apparently only goes so far. >> right. i have always said with donald trump, though, it only goes one direction. really. so he expects loyalty from people but he is not very loyal in return and certainly people close to him would know this and so they would know what to expect from him in a situation like this. look. people will do a lot for people they're loyal to up to a point and going to jail usually isn't one of those things unless it's for a child or a close family member, maybe. but somebody's not going to do that in this situation and when people are caught up in something that's clearly a crime, then this is exactly what i would expect them to do. you could i guess play the game of thinking that you could try to get a pardon n. this case, it is not really going to help you anyway. that's a dangerous game even for somebody like paul manafort so i t

allen says while growing up his mom worked two to three jobs to support their family and taught themrs. he is now pledging all proceeds from the song go to abe's garden, an alzheimer's care center in nashville ♪ i know you're still in there, deep down somewhere i swear i still ♪ >> reporter: and though there is no cure to alzheimer's, allen says country music is the only thing that brings his mom back. watch how she smiles right here. allen now hoping by sharing his song and story he can help others. [ cheers and applause ] >> that song, "blank stares," you can find it on tie tunes. thank you for watching on a friday night. i'm tom llamas. i'll see you back here tomorrow. omorrow. li >>> it's everywhere. it is everywhere. >> dramatic new video from the crr fire, one week after it began. this as new warnings were issued today about fire danger. good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> here's the latest. i'm larry beil, on the mendocino complex fires, new mandatory evacuation orders from the community of potter valley. the two fires have burned 153,000 acres, 30%

let's start with you, 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

i'm sure allen had to give frequent reports to mr.rump about the trump organization. >> weisselberg is the latest piece to fall, bringing this case closer and closer to that man. as shannon pettypiece of bloomberg writes, since trump's 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 is wonderful ask then they get ten years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go. it almost ought to be outlawed. i've seen it many times. i've had many friends involved in this. it's called flipping and it almost should be illegal. >> let's bring off our panel, all returning veterans. ken thomas, for the associated press, who traveled with the president to ohio t

president trump, learning that allen weisselberg, long-serving cfo in the trump organization, has been given immunity in the michael cohen case. >>> but first, john mccain has decided, along with his family, to discontinue treatment for the brain cancer that the senator has been fighting so valiantly for more than a year. this from the mccain family today. "john has surpassed expectations for his survival. but the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. our family is immensely grateful for the support and kindness of all his caregivers over the last year and for the continuing outpouring of concern and affection from john's many friends and associates, and the many thousands of people who are keeping him in their prayers. god bless and thank you all." this morning on twitter from his daughter, meghan, "my family is deeply appreciative of all the love and generosity you have shown us during this past year. thank you for all of your continued support and prayers. we could not have made it this far without you -- yew given us strength to carry on." and

allen says while growing up his mom worked two to three jobs to support their family and taught themothers. he is now pledging all proceeds from the song go to abe's garden, an alzheimer's care center in nashville. ♪ i know you're still in there, deep down somewhere i swear i still see you ♪ >> reporter: and though there is no cure to alzheimer's, allen says country music is the only thing that brings his mom back. watch how she smiles right here. allen now hoping by sharing his song and story he can help others. [ cheers and applause ] >> that song, "blank stares," you can find it on itunes. thanks so much for watching on a friday night. i'm tom llamas. see you right back here tomorrow. see you right back here tomorrow. >>> we are looking live outside because the impact of the fires could get worst. tonight the impact of the fires that we're seeing and smelling. >>> fires already burn, but with local crews stretched so thin, how can we make sure our neighborhoods are protected during a weekend with a red flag warning. >>> i'm michael finney at the santa clara county fair where the 7

and i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing which will be -- >> listen? what financing? >> well, i have to pay you. >> no cash. >> no. no. >> how are you? >> i guess where truth is not truth and crime isn't crime, your own voice on tape isn't your voice on tape. the president is trying to absorb a body blow. he doesn't seem to have any good answer because there may simply be none which might explain why his press secretary could only offer a string of nonanswers when asked about the cohen case. >> as the president said we've stated many times, he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against him. and we've commented on this extensively. as the president has stated on numerous occasions, did he nothing wrong. i'm not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of this. i would refer you to the president's outside counsel on that. the president has expressed his views on that. i don't have anything further to add. once again, i commented on this pretty extensively. for anything beyond that, i would refer you to the president's outside counsel.

let's start with allen weisselberger. tom, you confirmed that weisselberger has been granted immunity. what would he need to to do to that immunity? >> what he would need to say, they would approach and say, hey, we'd like to talk with you. we need you to walk through some certain things. whether that be for a grand jury or just a sit down and have a discussion with fbi agents and federal prosecutors. he might say i could talk to you but i might be going into an area where i'm incriminating myself. they would say we are going to imunize your testimony or anything that you tell us. the kpkt mechanics of this, because the press office for the southern district of new york is not commenting on this, we don't know the exact mechanics. did it happen in front of a grand jury, in a discussion with prosecutors? basically, what they would want is to walk us through this payment. this stormy daniels payment. that's where his information would be helpful, too. they have statements in here that detail him accepting michael cohen's re

and immigration attorney allen orr. allen, is it a legitimate question or subject for us to discuss if somebody is here legally or illegally? >> it is if we are dealing with a matter of immigration. but i think what the family has said in this situation and also with the law bears out in the way the case is being handled,wi the fact that this person is undocumented is not an essential part of his actual criminal activity. therefore -- >> jason: allen, don't you believe if he was unable to get here, if he had come legally and lawfully, he may not ever comere here. the fact that he was here and is illegal. mollie would be alive if he weren't in this country. do you believe that or not? >> first of all, it's an absolute tragedy and i offer my condolences to the family. the possibility of changing what actually happened, no one can do those circumstances. i'm not going to play the game of what if. >> jason: it's not a game. when people are here illegally and they commit a crime, ial really do believe that that crime wouldn'

his name is allen weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization. little side note, giving immunity to these two but not cohen shows how intent prosecutors are. if they're willing to jam him up for things that he did only for trump, remember none of it -- you know, a lot of -- you've got to look at the plea agreement, but a lot of it is what he did for trump. what does that say how interested they are in what trump knows. even if you don't believe anything from anybody else, there's the tape of trump and cohen proving that he knew during the process, not only after. remember. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you know, so that i'm going to do that right away. i've actually come up -- i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> he only knew about it after he says this, obviously before, at best during. he lied. does it yes. why? here. 18-usc-2001. what is that? that's lying to the government, false statements to the government. what does that mean?

>> maybe everything and at least in the case of allen weissle berg. as david says, he's more than an accountant here. he's more than the number krun cher. he has been not just with trump. he's been with his father. he's sort of robert duvall to al pacino here. he was with the old man in the '80s, with trump in the '90s when he almost went bankrupt. he nows how things are done and he knows all kinds of sketchy details. so this is huge, i would say. and the immunity, i mean, they would not be providing him immunity given his prominence and the possibility that he would have criminal exposure unless it were really important for the overall investigation and for bigger fish. and you can imagine who those bigger fish might be. >> let's listen to what one trump campaigner said during the presidential campaign about what it means if you are given immunity. >> when you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime. >> harry, did michael flynn have that reasonably correct? >> yeah. i mean, so here is how it works. they call him in to

kpix 5's allen martin on the sophisticated plan. allen intro taped >> facebook wiped out accounts trying to disrupt the mid-term elections. kpix 5's allen martin on the plan. >> reporter: facebook detected a new campaign aimed at spreading political messages. it raises the possibility that russia is trying to interfere in the u.s. s electionhad more than 290,000 followers and were created between march 2017 and may 2018. she called this fight an arm's race when speaking to reporters during a conference call. >> this is not allowed on facebook because we don't want organizations or individuals creating networks of account said that mislead people about who they are or what they are doing. >> reporter: some focused on divisive issues. >> the goal was to make the united states weaker and to make our allies less confident in the united states' ability to achieve our goals. >> reporter: she wouldn't confirm if the russians were behind the campaigns. >> we are in the early stages of our investigation. we don't have all the facts. >> repor

allen weisselberg's name is mentioned. listen to this. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. you know, so that i'm -- need do to that right away. >> give to me. >> i've spoken to allen weisselberg about ho w to set te whole thing up with funding -- >> so begs the question, of course, we know what an integral part weisselberg has been for the trump organization. could this particular episode just be the tip of the iceberg? >> certainly could be. in boxing we call this, we would call it a one-two punch. only two people. in this scenario, it's been a one-two-three punch for president trump. you had his political fixer michael cohen flip. you had one of his close friends, somebody working with michael cohen to squelch stor s stories, to help president trump's campaign, he has flipped. and now you have allen weisselberg and i think -- the importance of this really can't be overstated. one, he oversaw trump's charity. two, he's done trump's taxes and what was said just be

allen weisselberg.ng time cfo of trump organization was granted immunity for cooperation in the cohn case. could be one of many sgrant threats facing not just trump's presidency, but his business. trump once said would be a red line that mueller shouldn't cross. joining me now is senior vice president for social justice at the news school. paul butler. editor of above the law and dean series xm host of the

they mention allen weisselberg. >> he knows where the money is. law enforcement is follow the money. cfos are often very, very important witnesses. not because they have done anything wrong, but they know where the money comes in and where it goes out. the fact that he has now been granted immunity is enormously significant. it means investigators now have a basically complete window into the financial operations of the trump organization. now if there is nothing improper that went on there, donald trump has nothing to worry about. if there is something improper, the feds are very likely going to know about it. >> this, jeffrey, escalates the pressure, potentially on the president. "the wall street journal" reached out for comment. did not hear back. we are doing the same at this time. we know from this reporting that he did -- he was called to testify before a federal grand jury. set this in the context. week for us. mo how significant? >> what makes it so important is that the investigators are trying to tell the whole story of what went on here

debora allen sits on the bart board of directors. she says what they have learned so far from this pilot enforcement program is that the problem is worse than they thought. sound from - debora allen - bart director district 1the problem is worse than we thought, a lot of evaders. in just two months 15% of those riders asked had not paid their bart ride. fare evasion is the gateway crime, it's very unlikely that a person who commits a crime in september bart police will be presenting the bart board of directors an official update on this pilot program and provide numbers showing it's success or failure so it's early to judge it. but debora allen says the money could be better spent. sound from - debora allen - bart director district 1why not have those officers at the gates of the stations getting people, or invest in making the gates and entry points more secure, people ride the elevators up and skip the gates, we have emergency exits left open people can walk through all day long" ( ken ) all day long"can walk through all day long"a

(grant) debora allen has come up with a five point plan to make the transit system safer. she says the first thing bart needs to do is hire more officers. bart is roughly 25 officers shy of what's considered normal staffing ...and she says 10- thousand dollar bonuses are now being offered to new hires. number two is related...pay bart officers a competive salary...currently first year san francisco p-d officers make about 15 grand more a year than incoming bart officers...and new alameda deputies make more than 40- thousand more to start. another idea...request help from other bay area law enforcement agencies. debora allen/bart board of directors: "not really as a long term solution but as a stop gap maybe we could have some mutual aid in respect to patrolling the gates of the station and the front parking lots" (grant) allen's also proposing having more bart officers get out of their cars to increase visibility. the last idea is to crack down even more on fare evasion. the increased revenue would be used to relace gates and fencing. allen says she plans to present her fi

allen ferguson was 18 when he was first diagnosed.out all the medications modern medicine had to offer. did they work at all? >> no. i can say that now. >> allen picked a day he wanted to die, quit his job, gave away his dog zeke, and had a final phone call with loved ones. but almost as an after thought, his psychiatrist asked if he would consider an anesthetic medication known as a ketamine. >> i wasn't worried about trying something i never tried before. i was worried about trying something else that wasn't going to work. >> ketamine is widely thought of as a club drug, a dating rape drug. but at several hundred centers around the country, doctors have been using it off label to help patients at real risk of dying from suicide. some have even referred to it as a save shot. for allen, it worked, and fast, within hours. >> i honestly have never -- have never had the experience of waking up and not being sorry that i woke up. i don't use seib, but it is for me. it's phenomenal. >> reporter: allen got his first infusion on may 25th, an

he may decide to take a partial verdict and give them another allen charge and send them back in. usually the law, as i understand it, an allen charge twice is not reversible error, but once you get much beyond that, it starts to be coercive. again, it all depends on how many counts we're talking about. as ken just said, if they have guilt on 17 counts and there's one count on which they're hung, then maybe the prosecution just accepts the motion for a mistrial. but that also depends on which count that is. not all counts are equal. so we have a lot more information than we did at the end of the day yesterday, andrea, but we still have a lot of questions that remain. >> andrea, we should clear up for our viewers, because dan was in the courtroom and i wasn't, it's perhaps more ambiguous than i represented. it's possible they're saying they're deadlocked on all of the counts, it sounds like from what you're saying. >> it's possible, but i think unlikely. i think the implication of the note is that they have reached unanimity on some counts and the question, again, was, if we cannot

but is allen weisselberg, is he a made man? maybe that's the question. >> we're going to talk a little bit. we are definitely going to talk about that kind of culture that exists in the trump world later on in the show. seth, really quickly, would state charges take away a michael cohen pardon as a potential tool for trump? we know he's trying to kind of perhaps signal that to paul manafort with some of the comments and language and the tweets, saying he's a brave man and all that, if there are state charges, would that neutralize a presidential pardon? >> yeah, it sure would. mr. trump, the president, has the power to pardon in the federal system, but not in the state system. the governor of new york could pardon someone, there's no indication that could happen. the da bringing charges against michael cohen or anybody else, the president will not be able to pardon those. >> what do you think right now, seth, in terms of the investigators, what is the big picture here they're trying to put together when it comes to president tr

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 wh