for years about some shady dealings that the trump organization has involved itself in. we don t know the details but if anyone does know that, it s allen. cohen s plea in court was a devastating blow to a president already beset with legal and political problems. and it s cig cal na cohen had given up his last best hope ov escaping his fate. a presidential pardon from trump. even if he did pardon cohen. that wouldn t make the problems go away. it might make them get worse. this is starting to look like a problem that can t be solved. i will tell you from my reporting. cohen doesn t expect to get a pardon. he kind of matter of factually said, i can do time. i pled guilty. he surpassed the ambitions of college years. not in the way he would have wanted. his name is forever tied to
meeting. play that with anderson cooper. so michael cohen does not have information that president trump knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand or no, did not. if cohen doesn t have that. can t nail the fact trump knew in advance of the meeting, what could he have. in my grand jury testimony, michael could have been the biggest suggest that i spoke about. they were very interested in the fact of what michael s role was going to be with the campaign. interested instead high he conducted business at trump, whether or not his private businesses were conducted to trump and why he did not get a job in the white house. by the way, reason he didn t get a job is jared kushner. did you perceive that the prosecutors were more interested in the trump organization than
correct thing and i think now he is examining it a little closer, and, you know, looks r looking at the fact that he has done nothing wrong. this is something that michael cohen has done to pretty much get at to get at him. whether i think it s kind of a difficult place because you know, you ve got donald trump. you ve got marjory stoneman douglas michael cohen. both are not experts in campaign finance law. he denied knowing anything about the payment. and then at a later date, he said that later on he was aware of the payment, but it came from his funds and not campaign finance funds. doesn t look like he was trying to outright lie. he might not have known.
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so, my read into this is that he s gets immunity in the hope that he can provide help with someone else and cohen doesn t look like the big fish that sdny would be going after here. so the implication is there s a bigger fish, we re trying to figure out who that is. 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 organization, 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 p