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Conspiracies that he may have been involved in, one, dealing with ami, the other with stormy daniels. so now we have three conspiracies potentially hes implicated in that impacted the outcome of the election. >> that was the idea i was thinking about yesterday. we look at watergate and say it was this whole raft of scandals, but it started with the burglary, and it was only after the break-in and the investigation started that we saw the scope of richard nixons criminality. i think its important...

Where ami is in all of this now. weve seen david pecker get this immunity from prosecutors. ami is still very much a focus of attention here. youve talked about these three pillars propping up president trump. the pr pillar. how does it change its role when we look at it as a de facto arm of the president? >> from a legal perspective, i think his comment was right that ami worked as an arm of the donald trump campaign. i think theyre look at them from a narrow perspective. what role did they pla...

Road if you decide to cooperate well dangle a level reduction in your sentence like a carrot in front of you, but that es ooono -- thats only if you razzle dazzle us with everything you know. immunity could blow up in a prosecutors face if that person ends up being the real doer, the real bad guy. so they only give out immunity when they really want something. a few months ago they would say cohen was the one who quote, knew where the bodies were buried. now were saying something about weisselbe...

Melanias speech. >> knowing her, do you think she would do as david pecker and some others have done and go to robert mueller and agree to talk about what she knows about the trump organization? >> i would just say to that, protect yourself. protect yourself. as you can see with allen and the other people and david, who was my former boss at ami, theyre all protecting themselves. theyre going and theyre going to tell their story but theyre not going to have to face any kind of criminal charges w...

All out for us, cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. help us put these cases into perspective. >> okay, wolf. im going to talk relatively fast because theres a lot. lets pop up the graphic that shows the legal universe. okay. lets just run through them. bob mueller, we know about that one. special counsel investigation. not sure when that ends, but probably the biggest domino out there. we have reporting from last night, "new york times" reporting that, the manhattan d.a. ma...

Michael cohen who paid stormy daniels to keep quiet and not go public with her affair. this would be an investigation looking into how the trump organization and two officials "the times" have reported, two executives, whether they properly accounted for the payment. >> allan weiselberg spoke -- >> he was subpoenaed by the southern district of new york. >> he is someone that a lot of people are familiar with his name but has worked in trump world forever, hired by trumps father, knows a lot. do ...

Information about someone, getting them to do what they want. ami has a lot of magazines. it sells when you have celebr y celebrities on the cover. >> what do you imagine is in that safe. what does it mean there are secrets in the safe? >> i have no idea, but you can only imagine there is secrets from a lot of time. this is not the only time catch and kill has happened with trump. >> so what, according to the ap, its things like damaging stories, documentation of that, documentation of hush mone...

She has tapes. that was last week. it may come back. then cohen and david pecker. this may be the biggest domino to drop. the head of american media, reports that there was a safe that had a variety of catch-and-kill deals like karen mcdougals that pecker, who is a long-time friend of trump, set up. in march 2016 after "national enquirer" ran a piece alleging with zero proof that ted cruz, donald trumps opponent at the time in the primary, had multiple extramarital affairs, pecker and trump had ...

Him immunity? >> i think it tells you what the prosecutors goal is here. the goal seems making sure they can build as strong a case as possible if not against the president, then against those around him, his business enterprises, the trump organization. all other considerations, including the potential liability of mr. pecker himself, perhaps even ami, really were secondary. if im president trump, thats an awfully ominous sign. >> whats your read, david? in terms of the legal line that pecker a...

A conviction, a guilty plea, an immunity deal in a week. with friends like these, who needs enemies? steve vladik and david weinstein join me. steve, lets talk about the flip. the latest one. that would be david pecker. getting immunity from prosecutors to flip on the president and immunity is not an easy thing to get. lets listen to what a man who worked with pecker high up at ami said to me last night when i asked him, you know, are you surprised that he would flip on the president. listen. we...