the obvious choice is donald trump sr. but it could be donald trump jr. or eric. those are the only possibilities of somebody who's more senior to weisselberg in the organization. would that be true? >> at least in the organizations. and it's important that when you give someone immunity and try to keep going up the chain in a prosecution, you don't always succeed. but these are good prosecutors, they know how to do these kinds of cases. it seems unlikely to me that they would have given weisselberg a pass if they didn't think he had value to offer them. >> the benefit of immunity is that i guess you're supposed to tell the prosecutors whatever they want to know or whatever you know and in exchange for that you can't be prosecuted for the things you tell them. i'm assuming there may be different flavors of immunity but the point is allen weisselberg can't get out there and plead the fifth. >> you know, there are different flavors of immunity and they come with different rights and responsibilities. but one of the important things to remember about immunity is that

donald trump is in really serious trouble. >> or as we've seen donald trump getting concerned about, donald trump jr. is in serious trouble. >> but donald trump srn really serious criminal and probably impeachable trouble if it's proven that he knew and approved the meeting with the russians beforehand. in other words, was willing to take and soliciting help from foreign government to interfere in our election. and that is a crime and it's an impeachable offense. >> if manafort knew that piece of information and had it to offer, why wouldn't he have offered it up yet? do you think he's rolling the dice? >> well, yeah. first of all, is he going to be convicted? his lawyers don't think so. if he's not, he's still got another trial to deal with. but the other possibility is if he's convicted, then what happens? he's facing the rest of his life in prison. but he's saying, well, you know, maybe i'll get a pardon. i don't know if he's actually saying that, but he could be saying i'm going to get a pardon from donald trump and then i don't have to deal with this. if he gets a pardon from trump, then he's got a life, he can get more ostrich jackets, reb

donald trump himself was personally supervising the pay off to that playboy playmate. and now we know he knew from hut michael cohen is apparently prepared to testify that donald trump, sr. knew in advance about this june 9 meeting. i suspect there's more stuff he knew about. and suspect he's not only nervous for his son but himself because the truth is starting to emerge, and it's highly damning for him. >> thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate your time. up next, the new book everything trump touches dies. we're going to speak to its author, republican strategist rick wilson. what do harvard graduates know about cognitive performance? as you'd probably guess, a lot. that's why a new brain health supplement called forebrain from the harvard-educated experts at force factor is flying off the shelves at gnc. forebrain's key ingredients have been clinically shown to help enhance sharpness and clarity, improve memory, and promote learning ability. and now every man and woman in america can claim a complimentary bottle. just use your smartphone to text the keyword on the screen to 20-20-20. scientific research on cognigrape, a sicilian red wine extract in forebrain's memorysaf

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donald trump sr. >> turn around and look at the pantheon of this administration indicted thus far, michaelnn, of course, paul manafort behind me. a reference to nietzsche. >> dangerous, keep comparing it to watergate. it is not. a complete abdication of congress serving at the check on this president. the cons states states, right? three distinct branches and the papers lead out what needs to happen. checks and balances are needed for this fragile democracy to continue. >> talking paul ryan? >> a kind of cascading collection of institutions failing to live up to what they're supposed to do. failing to do what they're supposed to do, but emoluments. making millions, scott pruitt, price, we can go on and on. devos. mick mulvaney. >> all the credits. >> go on and on. right? to use a dungeons and dragons expression, drifters. >> for the people who are about to vote. >> if you make a magic cards reference. >> i will not. i guarantee you. the people about to vote it's important to remember these leaders don't care about you. they care about themselves. they are enriching themselves, and eddie, e

and i think that donald trump sr. is very conscious of not only the legal quicksand for his son but also for himself. >> how do you see this unfolding, then? the bottom line is the president was fairly quick after the knowledge of that meeting became public to go out there and draft a statement which is now under scrutiny as well for saying nothing happened, it was about adoptions. we now know it has trickled up and we now know it was somebody working for the russian government who was trying to overturn the magnitsky act and wanted this campaign support in doing so. >> natalie veselnitskaya who came to that trump tower meeting on june 9th, 2016, was an emissary, in fact an agent of the russian government. donald trump jr. was told that he would be meeting with a russian emissary or agent. so the idea that this was just the normal opposition research, totally untrue. also, that statement that the president wrote for his son not only under scrutiny, it is under serious challenge. it is completely false. and more eviden

forthcoming that's a crime and he would be somebody who would be privy to knowing whether donald trump jr had spoken to mr trump sr the president before the meeting and suggest that he knew about what was going on and he could be guilty of a conspiracy to solicit dirt on hillary clinton involving the government of russia that is the collusion that he says doesn't exist and that's down the road but i think that with the leverage that mr moeller now has over mr mann for with regard to sentencing mr mann for doesn't want to say the rest of his life in prison he could make a deal and bad for it would have to be completely forthcoming about that june two thousand and sixteen meeting that's the land mine that confronts mr trump now what's the space then bruce fine was a pleasure thank you for joining us. first mentioned russia there and the u.s. has placed new sanctions on two russian shipping companies for violating sanctions against north korea as well as to individuals over cyber related activities and washington is also likely to impose further sanctions against russia in the coming days in relation to the poisoning

telling "the post" he cannot independently confirm reports that cohen witnessed donald trump jr. telling trump sr. about an upcoming meeting where he expected to get dirt on hillary clinton. he did not, however, rule out the story, said it still could be true. joining me now, caroline polici. here's the thing, this was huge news when davis said this. obviously it could have been something that was crucial or at least helped fill in some of the blanks for robert mueller. what now? >> well, it tells me that there's a huge breakdown in communication between michael cohen and his attorney, lanny davis. i can tell you who's not happy about this, the lead criminal defense attorney general for michael cohen, a former prosecutor in the southern district of new york. of course, off of that, you know, michael cohen has pleaded guilty to eight criminal acts, two of which were the campaign financial law violations. it's shocking to me that davis would go on television and make such a bold statement without having verified that. you have to ask, chris, what was the strategy, who was the strategy behind that,

i thing he's increasingly cornered and they often can't think as straight the pressure sr on donald trump now. things changed dramatically yesterday. it was reminiscent of march 1974 when i think nine of president nixon's close aids were indicted and fired. but again you can't use watergate as template because of the allegation that russia influenced our election. >> and it was whether or not he's going to face ramifications of whatever he faces that congress was different then. >> exactly. and i find a lot of people got this. widespread criminal conspearacy that both louses of congress were in the hands of the democrats. we have a situation now skwrurs the opposite. and someone said i agree with you that the only chance that republican party, gop senators and majority house members is if he tries to fire mueller, if not, they're going to stick with him thick and thin. unless something changes dramatically, i think that's it. and by the way lindsey graham, senator from south carolina, very smart, good sense of humor and i know him a little bit and whraoeubg him. as you know president clin

donald trump jr.? >> that's right. there's a glaring inconsistency between what donald trump jr. has said and testified to and to what trump srjust to play again devil's advocate, isn't it possible in trump's mind that everything he said today in his tweet is consistent with his view of this meeting, which is that there wasn't anything wrong with this meeting. and in that sense because it's long been suspected, just as you said that this meeting was not about adoptions, it was about getting dirt on hillary clinton, if that is the case and we've known that for a while, then in trump sr.'s mind he's done nothing but maintain the status quo and concedes that, hey, this may have been a meeting about dirt but meeting about dirt is not a crime. now it is, turns out, a crime. that's the problem. that's the issue. but it is a crime that is not as -- it's a crime that is not commonly charged. >> right. >> and in trump's mind thinking like a trump, if he believes there was nothing wrong with goating dirt from russians or someone from arkansas or someone from anywhere, then this is consistent with how he views this case. ultimately as n

sr witnesses who turn on their bosses, think sammy the bull key to bringing down john gotti. or johnean whose testimony sink nixon. the president's lawyer tells "the washington post" donald trump asked about the possibility of pardoning manafort several weeks ago but his legal am quote told him he should wait until all the investigations are over. given manafort has another trial next month, could the president's refusal to le out a pardon amount to witness tampering? >> that is at least evidence of witness tampering. it may not be the crime of witness tampering. buying a ski mask is not a crime but if i use it in a cre, it's evidence of the crime. >> reporter: slamming a gop culture of corruption but not talking impeachment yet. not that the president is wored. i don't know how you can impeach somebody that did a great job. i'll tell you what, if i got imached, i think the market would crash. i think everyone would be very poor. >> reporter: for david pecker and "the national enquirer," the association the press siting people familiarith the arrangement is reporting on the existence of a safe used to keep documents related to hush money payments and damaging stories it killed