this, and "the wall street journal" reports that federal prosecutors have granted immunity to david packerthe ceo of the company that publishes the "national enquirer" in the cohen investigation. "the wall street journal" reports that packer met with them in the manner that i just described involving michael: and candidate donald trump. prosecutors are indicating that dylan howard, the chief content officer at the "national enquirer," a parent company also, will not be charged in criminal investigation of michael cohen. but the deal that everyone is talking about that is breaking news according to the journal is david packer granted immunity. your thoughts? >> lawrence: i think that bob mueller is not looking for a legal case. he's looking for building a case with congress for some sort of impeachment. he realizes he can't do it on the legal side and this is a bad move. the more they do this kind of stuff the american people will push back. it seems like they are trying to get rid of a duly elected president, whether you like him or not. >> harris: kennedy, i want to go to you because you

"the wall street journal" is reporting that the feds have granted immunity to a man named david packer, ceo of the company that publishes the "national enquirer," in the michael cohen investigation. chief white house correspondent john roberts is reporting on this. so this is news that the man in the documents with michael cohen might have been part of the conversation where, you catch and kill a play playboy models story effectively, alleging that she had an affair with the president? do you take that story, give her some money, make her quiet and move on without the story just before the election in 2016? that's how he fits into the picture. >> we know that packer had been summoned to speak with federal prosecutors about this and there were reports out this morning that packer had indeed told prosecutors that president trump was aware of what the "national enquirer" was doing in terms of this so called a catch and kill related to the x "playboy" model, karen mcdougall. this new report in "the wall street journal" said that he was granted immunity to speak to prosecutors is a new wrin

>> david packer for those who don't know is a very good friend friend, a longtime friend of donald trump's a big headache for the president. according to "the wall street journal," packer has already told prosecutors that donald trump knew that he was buying the rights to karen mcdougall story, the former playboy model, at 150k. and that was in order to bury that. they could then buy the rights directly from the inquirer, and trump says on that tape, what if david packer gets hit by a bus? >> so where do we think this is going? there are also reports that he has been keeping under lock and key documents for many years. this is an interesting form of friendship, right? >> oh, yes. the alliance between the supermarket tabloid and the now president has been kind of an open secret. he's done a lot of cheerleading for donald trump and gone after his rivals, whether it was 2016 hillary six months to live or others, i don't know that this puts donald trump in legal jeopardy, but politically speaking, it's another confidant like omarosa who is turning on the president in order to get leniency. i

is about david packer, cohen, manafort, the economic news doesn't come through and the polling showsikely today to go democratic. if the republicans don't have a unified message, there is not going to be a red wave. >> judge jeanine: but the republicans do have a unified message. david, it appears the president was banging the trump's, saying, we got more people working than at any other time in history, the president is a smart man, he understands what he needs to say, and he's also a tough guy. this isn't going to get him off his game. they can bang all they want on the left but he knows, he talks about law enforcement, he talks about the flag, he talks about the economy. those are almost those words. >> every time someone opens up their investment account or opens up their paycheck orchids and other benefit at work or goes to look for a job and realizes there are more jobs than there are workers right now ingh america, they get that it's been this president and the republicans in congress that have put those policies in place. let's also not forget, there is a reason why the democ

one indicates that david packer , the ceo of the inquirer helped him to bury lewd stories to help him better his medical prospects. he was reportedly given immunity by prosecutors to discuss stories from two women the tabloid bought, then killed during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is the third blow for the president this weekend he is directing his frustration at his justice department on twitter and in an interview with fox news, he is escalating his long-running feud with attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself from robert mueller's investigation. >> he took the job, and then he said i'm going to recuse myself . i said what kind of a man is this? >> sessions fired back writing Ãthe department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. in response, the president tweeted today in part -- this is great, what everyone wantsà a look into all of the corruption on the other side including deleted emails and leaks. cbs has learned that and now thquestion is whether they are now in the hands of federal prosecutors. >>> coming up, some of the m

i >> ed: what about david packer and the "national enquirer"? the stapled of information? he get immunity in your best guesstimate to figure out the michael cohen part of this? could david packer in the "national enquirer" be giving more information that might open up new avenues for the president to be put under investigation? >> it could be anything, the story about the documents raises a lot of questions. what happened to the documents? were they disposed of? when? was it too frustrating investigation? was there a search warrant to go get them? i have a lot of questions. i think it is hard to say that they are looking down one path. pretty specifically when you have a witness who wants everything that they have. >> ed: what is in the safe may not be criminal, it could be tabloid fodder, and after hearing the facts, i ask the questions at the president allies would ask, doesn't it suggest what he suggests that this is a witch hunt? starting as a rush of collusion and know we looking at the national "national enquirer"? >> i will not categorize it as a witch hunt. >> ed:

include alan weisman burke chief financial officer of the trump organization and longtime friend david packer who was involved in hush money payments to women during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election with u.s. voters going to the polls for midterm congressional elections in november i democratic takeover of the house of representatives would mean trouble for trump the most damaging thing for the president is going to be the impeachment hearings and the investigations that the democrats have been likely have over the course of the entire sort of twenty nineteen here perhaps that's why rumored to replace john mccann is someone who knows a lot about impeachment proceedings lawyer emmet flood represented president bill clinton during his impeachment hearings in the ninety nine can really help get al-jazeera the white house it's now speak to joe watkins he's a republican political strategist and former white house aide to george h.w. bush is joining us from philadelphia thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera how significant is this exit in this politicized environment well it's very sign

intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal is reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence southern africa has rejected a tweet by the u.s. president on land reform calling it narrow and divisive on twitter donald trump said lannes being seized from white farmers that he'd asked his secretary of state to examine the policy well the south african government summoned the most senior american diplomat in the country to discuss the controversy in washington reporters pressed trump administration officials on the issue. the president asked the secretary to look closely at the current state of action in south africa related to land reform this is something that has been going on for many decades the conversation and debate about land reform there i should mention that the expropriation of land without compensation our position is that that

include alan weisel burke chief financial officer of the trump organization and longtime friend david packer who was involved in hush money payments to women during the twenty sixteen u.s. election with u.s. voters going to the polls for midterm congressional elections in november a democratic takeover of the house of representatives would mean trouble for trump the most damaging thing for the president is going to be the impeachment hearings and the investigations that the democrats have been likely have over the course of the entire sort of twenty nineteen here perhaps that's why rumored to replace john mccann is someone who knows a lot about impeachment proceedings lawyer and that flood represented president bill clinton during his impeachment hearings in the ninety nine can really help at al-jazeera the white house. primary elections in two u.s. states are being seen as an important test of the so-called trump effect and florida democrats have picked the state's first african-american candidate andrew guillen for governor he'll be taking on ronda sanchez who was behind in the polls until

intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal is reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. the united nations has called on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's economic and political crisis that came after neighboring ecuador and per announced tighter and three requirements of venezuelans that now need to have a valid passport previously venezuelans were allowed to come in with just their id cards according to the u.n. more than one point six million people have fled venezuela since twenty fifteen here as a latin america and israel is seen in human with more from caracas. this is santa uncle this is last day at her home in her working class neighborhood she sold everything possible and packed the rest she enters sister her two daughters and their four small children prepare to abandon i

intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal was reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. break here in al-jazeera when we come back the u.n. urges south american countries to ease travel restrictions for venezuelans fleeing a worsening economic crisis and a day to sit court for ugandan musician turned politician but he won some charge of the goat but the case against him is far from a state. from briskness and fuel. to the war in trying cool to this of southeast asia. hello there it's mostly dry and fine force across the middle east at the moment in the northern part of our map though we do still have a little bit more in the way of clouds we've seen a few showers recently from the black sea across towards the caspian sea we can expect a few more showers here over the next few days as well another place where we're likely to see o

include alan weiss labored chief financial officer of the trump organization and longtime friend david packerwho was involved in hush money payments to women during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election with u.s. voters going to the polls for mid-term congressional elections in november a democratic takeover of the house of representatives would mean trouble for trump the most damaging thing for the president is going to be the impeachment hearings and the investigations that the democrats have been likely have over the course of the entire sort of twenty nineteen here perhaps that's why rumored to replace john mccann is someone who knows a lot about impeachment proceedings lawyer emmet blood represented president bill clinton during his impeachment hearings in the ninety nine can really help at al-jazeera the white house brazil's president says he's considering limiting the number of venezuelans allowed into the country tensions are high in the border state over a map which has seen an influx of migrants trying to escape the political and economic turmoil back home michel to maris says

families charitable foundation which is being investigated by the state of new york on thursday david packer c.e.o. of the national enquirer is publisher was also given immunity in the cohen case to discuss his role and hush money payments of bruce fein as a former u.s. says he it's deputy attorney general and he says granting immunity will how prosecutors learn more about what happened it is an absolute crime for a corporation to make any contribution to a political campaign they can't spin one cent providing that assistance directly to a candidate and so granting immunity based upon the public record that seems as though substantial sums were paid from the trump corporation to pay off or to reimburse mr cohen for payments made to these the foreign stars or the playboy bunny for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election so that being a campaign contribution and that is what basically muster cohen has already pled guilty to the corporation is equally guilty including those who operate the corporation will you grant immunity because under the united states constitution unlike in

intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal is reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. as a senior advisor at the atlantic council he says economic problems will hit the u.s. economy but not due to any impeachment of the president should mr trump be relieved from office and that's at this stage a doubtful issue my guess is that the markets are not going to be affected however . there is a ticking time bomb which mr trump is indeed partly responsible the united states has a overall debt of about twenty trillion dollars that's with a t. that's equivalent to about all of our gross domestic product the deficit for this year will be in excess of a trillion dollars again was a t. because of the tax cuts when interest rates go up to three four five percent a year which they will the staggering debt service that the united states once t

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intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal is reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relations. ships with trump to buy their silence here's what's coming up for you this news hour there is anger in south africa after donald trump wades into the country's land reform debate by suggesting white farmers are being targeted israeli army launches a criminal investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers during the protests of the guards or israel border and in sports or hear from a competitor proving age is just no barrier to success at the asian games. united nations has called on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's economic and political crisis the call came after neighboring ecuador and peru announced tighter entry requirements for venezuelans than i am now need valid passports when previously they were allowed to c

intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal was reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. the israeli army has launched a criminal investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers during protests near the gaza israel border fence one hundred and sixty seven palestinians died since weekly protest against israel's blockade began in march. as reports from gaza. sits with his grieving family. whose eighteen year old son was shot dead by an israeli soldier during a protest at the gaza border fence on march thirtieth. these radio has launched an internal investigation into the incident and the shooting death of another fifteen year old palestinian during a similar protest in july. i had. my son loved life and he loved the others loved life too when he heard about the protests he decided to go and see that he went peacefully do

we now know that the seventh district has immunized wessel berg as well as david packer from ami.nto that is that they are focusing on these payments and whether they violate the campaign finance laws. more broadly, wessel berg has been described as the guy who knew every dollar and sent by came into and out of the trump organization. depending on the spoke of how far his testimony went, could be problematic. shery: could the southern district of new york actually a bigger problem but even the mueller probe? elie: i think the southern district investigation has a higher probability of landing a short against the president, of making out a provable, definitive crime. i think if mueller's investigation lands on the president, that will have a higher impact. if mueller is able to draw that connection to the russian hacking or two other russian efforts to disrupt the election, then i think you will see a seismic political reaction. shery: the keep hearing from the president that this is an illegal investigation. yesterday telling bloomberg news that jeff sessions is safe until the mid

now, we have david packer who will be testifying his version of these events in this classic he said, he said dispute between the two men. now, the president also, as you mentioned, raising the idea of impeachment in an interview with fox news that was broadcast this morning. here is that conversation. >> i guess it is something like high crimes. i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i'll tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor >> so a lot of moving parts here, but the president there saying the stock market would crash if he were impeached, saying everybody would be poor, predicting dire consequences to the action of the congress which congress so far has not even contemplating that. >> thank you very much you'll be following all the news from the white house this afternoon. >> markets are lower at this hour, not all that worried about a potential impeachment, right look at the movements in the stock market bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange with more on that it seems

cohen who testified about president trump, prosecutors granted immunity to american media ceo david packero learn about his involvement to payments to karen mcdougall mcdougall. talks swirling at washington about possible impeachment, the president would warn it would risk the economic gains in the last 22 months. if >> president trump: i the markets would crash. >> rudy giuliani went even further. >> you can only impeach them for political reasons and the american people would revolt against that. >> according to alan dershowitz, there is nothing to impeach the president four. >> candidate trump could have announced on funding my own campaign, and putting a billion of my dollars into the campaign and i'm putting 100 million of them into women who have accused me falsely et cetera. that would not be a violation of any campaign laws as long as he reported it. >> democrats left on the coemployee and manafort conviction making the case that president trump has done nothing to fulfill his pledge to drain the washington swamp. >> he is not going to clean the swamp he's made it more wretched and

publisher david packer has been granted immunity who has protected donald trump for years accused ofching and killing negative stories about the president long before he was in the white house. could pecker now be the one who takes the president down? "outfront" is jerry george worked for the "national enquirer" 28 years served assessed tabloid's bureau chief. can you firm this? >> yes, erica. you know, as archaic as it sounds, there was such a device in this digital age where, you know, particularly sensitive story files, including source agreements and contracts and page proofs were stored for access and protection. >> would the only copy of those stories and those agreements be in that safe and, if so if destroyed, would that be it or another copy that lives somewhere else, eve's digitally? >> there probably would be much of the content preserved, you know, on a hard drive. but, you know, the actual physical signatures may, on the contacts may actually be in that safe. >> how many safes are we talking about? >> well, you know, i worked out of the los angeles office, and we had one

include alan weisel burke chief financial officer of the trump organization and longtime friend david packer who was involved in hush money payments to women during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election with u.s. voters going to the polls for midterm congressional elections in november a democratic takeover of the house of representatives would mean trouble for trump the most damaging thing for the president is going to be the impeachment hearings and the investigations that the democrats have been likely have over the course of the entire sort of twenty nineteen here perhaps that's why rumored to replace john mccann is someone who knows a lot about impeachment proceedings lawyer and that what represented president bill clinton during his impeachment hearings in the ninety nine can really help at al-jazeera the white house. well primary elections in two u.s. tate's are being seen as an important test of the so-called trump effect and florida democrats have picked the state's first african-american candidate andrew guillen for governor and he'll take on rhonda scientists who was behind i

the payment was made in coordination with the chairman of the coronation david packer and one or moren. it's the first indication from the plea agreement, a lot of developments today. let's focus on the cohen part. >> i think we'll talk about both cases. what we are seeing here is his personal fixer, he worked closely for many years about how these payments that we've been reporting on and talking about. back in april, i was on air force one with the president and asked him about if he knew about the 130,000 payment to stormy daniels. at the time he said he didn't know anything about it. the president isn't named in the court paperwork. but he's named by lanny davis and certainly it is pretty clear that this is who he is spoken about. >> bret: the inner circle for more than a decade, where potentially does this go? >> i think you see the outlines of the coming legal debate and it all centers around the legality of this payment. we ran through the tape with john edwards some years ago with a similar sort of issue and there at the was in question. now the same arguments are going to be

court papers connected to his guilty plea earlier this week say that ceo david packer, who is also a longtime friend of president trump, offered to help mr. trump squash negative stories during the 2016 campaign. "the wall street journal" is reporting that he has offered prosecutors details about has many payments cohen made to buy the silence of two women alleging affairs with mr. trump. cohen told the federal judge this week he made the payments at the direction of the president. >>> the president sat down for an exclusive interview with fox. this comes amid a critical week of legal bombshells involving both his former campaign chair as well as his one-time personal lawyer. fox correspondent kevin corke tells us the president discussed a wide range of topics and even addressed the talk of impeachment. >> he worked for ronald reagan for years. he works for bob dole. >> reporter: the president's refusal to answer whether he's considering hardening paul manafort is during debate on capitol hill. >> i don't think there is an injustice here. and at the end of the day, a parting should b

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this deal comes after longtime trump ally, david packer of national enquirer was also voted -- granted immunity in exchange for details about those payments. >>> oklahoma had a surprisingly large number of people and businesses all apply for medical marijuana licenses during the first 24 hour applications were available. oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana last june, the state set up websites where patients, caregivers, growers, processors and distribute us can apply for those permits. they collected 1,000,000 1/2 dollars and permit application fees yesterday. 23 patients were granted licenses as part of the test. the approval process, more licenses will be processed next tomorrow. >>> it is no longer a hurricane reported hitting hawaii but you still have tropical storm lane bringing destruction. >> still out there how residents are dealing with all that heavy rain. xfinity mobile is a new wireless network designed to save you money. even when you've got serious binging to do. wherever your phone takes you, your wireless bill is about to cost a whole lot less. use less data with

family's charitable foundation which is being investigated by the state of new york and on thursday david packer c of the national enquirer his publisher was also given immunity in the cohen case to discuss his role and hush money payments is fine if a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and he says granting immunity well help prosecutors learn more about what's happened it is an absolute crime for a corporation to make any contribution to a political campaign they can't spin one cent providing that assistance directly to a candidate and so granting immunity based upon the public record that seems as though substantial sums were paid from the trump corporation to pay off or to reimburse mr cohen for payments made to these the porn stars or the playboy bunny for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election so that being a campaign contribution and that is what basically muster cohen is already pled guilty to the corporation is equally guilty including those who operate the corporation will you grant immunity because under the united states constitution unlike in great britain

process and that's only the beginning we also have the name of david pecker to add to the list of close trump associates who have flipped packer was the publisher is the publisher of the national enquirer which according to court documents worked with trump's former attorney to make these hush payments at the direction of trump in order to silence these two women who are alleging having had affairs with trump and finally lest we forget paul man afore he is the former campaign chairman for trump he was found guilty also on tuesday of tax tax violations as well as bank fraud so this list of names of close trump associates who are now apparently cooperating most of them cooperating with prosecutors is certainly a cause of concern for trump going forward in deeds and i see in a separate and very different development the state department now says president trump has ordered it to quotes redirect more than two hundred million dollars of economic aid for projects in gaza and the west bank can you tell us more about that . that's right this was announced by the state department in a statement to the congress in just three paragraphs

david petraeus, thank you so much. it's a pleasure to have you here. please come back. >> pleasure to be here. >> ashley packer and steven, thank you soar spending some of the hour with us. after the break bridget nasoing f -- bracing forbad news. tough love for the president from one of his favorite tv lawyers. get ready for the investigations, one certainly coming for the white house if democrats regain control of the house in november. all those stories coming up. attention homeowners age sixty-two and older. one reverse mortgage has a great way for you to live a better retirement... it's called a reverse mortgage. call rfree information kityour with no obligation. it answers questions like... how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money and more. plus, when you call now, you'll get this magnifier with led light absolutely free! when you call the experts at one reverse mortgage today you'll learn the benefits of a government-insured reverse mortgage. it will eliminate your monthly mortgage payments and give you tax-free cash from the equity in your home... and here'