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Donald trump, jr., is executive two. again, the reason donald trump is not indicted is hes the president of the united states. thats his defense. >> listen, paul butler, i know you are all up in arms about executive number two, but right after michael cohen testified there were reports, i believe in "the washington post" where someone is saying executive two is actually a person known as jeff mcconney and not donald trump, jr. if donald trump, jr., is identified as executive number two then we a...

About stormy daniels. do you have any idea who those executives may be? >> executive number two is the person who had to get the okay for weisselberg to make those payments. >> weisselberg and michael cohen, are they the two people that you dont want testifying? >> yes. >> i mean there are questions. we know trump org. is controlled by a small circle. this is one of the big mysteries that well have a clear answer tomorrow. >> go on, did you want to say something? >> i mean, yes, but not about th...

Facade that the trump organization or the trump campaign could be these big sprawling things where there are lots of moving parts that mr. trump doesnt understand at the middle. but as elie and jennifer were talking about last hour, you know, when you start talking about executive number 1, executive number 2, there just arent that many people involved in these organizations whose name isnt trump. so the idea that you have this campaign meeting taking place that involves paul manafort, jared, an...

Justice, one that is even more clear cut than the presidents prior attempts to thwart the federal investigation into russias 2016 election interference. cynthia, which investigation poses a more existential threat to president trump at this time? the robert mueller or the southern district of new york? >> its hard to know that because robert muellers investigation is like a big black box. and we just -- its dark. we dont know whats in it. the southern district of new york definitely poses a huge...

Agreements and allocution, it says that executive number two approved those payments. in the campaign finance case. well, and the question is who is executive number two. most people speculate executive number two is don junior. so that means that don junior is approaching target status. the president has loyalty to almost no one in the united states with exception of his family. if his family is implicated, he is likely to blow up and all kinds of things are about to happen. so i do think somet...

Theres another executive who wasnt named today, but an executive number 2 who also at -- who was told by the chief financial officer of the trump organization to pay the money out of a trust. thats where the money that was repaid to michael cohen came from. so theres other people, we dont know the identities yet, but who are involved in this. >> very, very significant, anderson, that the trump organization is directly involved and implicated now. allen weisselberg, as you said earlier, is now co...

It was a violation of the campaign finance laws and very possibly other laws like money laundering and bank fraud. >> you know, an interesting thing that came out in court today, we learned michael cohen wasnt alone in an early meeting i think it was in 2015 with david pecker. there was at least one other person from the trump campaign according to what came out in court and the agreement that ami has signed that they have said is true. so theres somebody else who was aware of this deal with ami...

And everybody who knows trump world knows that he is a notorious micro-manager, that he would have to approve every check that went out. its not really likely that donald trump didnt know certain things that were having that may have been illegal inside trump tower. i think in terms of the aides you talked to, they are not so much worried about the material of the investigation. they are worried about the president and the day-to-day, his reactions in real time, what he may tweet or say or do th...

Hes lost several of his close friends and associates, flynn, gates, cohen, papadopoulos. now hes just lost pecker. seth waxman got it right, when that doorbell rings and the guy says im from the fbi, let me tell you, its every man for himself. so that suggests to me that the longer he waits, the worse its going to get. i think theyre going to go after the trump corporation now. i think weisselberg has got immunity. you know, theres an interesting story there. the complaint says -- the informat...