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Immunity to someone because youre hoping that theyll be able to either provide information or testify against someone who is a little bit higher up on the food chain than they are. you dont use a big fish to eat a smaller fish. my read is that he gets immunity in the hope that he can provide help with someone else and cohen doesnt look like the big fish that sdny would be going after here. >> so the implication is theres a bigger fish, were trying to figure out who that is. the obvious choice is...

Informal process where people wouldnt ask a lot of questions about what does the campaign finance laws say here. so if the investigators were to decide to take on this case and really prior into the trump organization, what weve seen from other instances is that they are not likely to find the very rigorous law based decision making process within the trump orgt orl organization. >> and you are also reporting on the pleading guilty to federal tax fraud, so of course the state would look into tha...

Flipping is not synonymous with lying, mr. president. >> rudy giuliani tried to make a case that cohens implication against the president cannot factor into grounds for immun y impeachment. >> he didnt collude with the russians. he didnt obstruct justice. you only impeach him for political reasons. >> what is your reaction to that? >> which american people are voting on your behalf? if you are somebody who has broken the law the revolt is the impeachment process itself. if you are not executive ...

The implication there. >> right. under then newly ascended president pence. im going to stand up for president pence. i dont think that would necessarily happen. look, the only people talking about impeachment are the republicans. you dont hear democrats talking about this -- >> you hear some. you hear some. >> well, but not on any kind of a scale that would suggest that this is around the corner. look, i said last april on this network, poppy, that i actually thought the thing that ought to hap...

The inquirer was hands off the candidate because he and donald trump and pecker have been friends for decades. in a profile piece, the new yorker magazine said there was a conference call with editors discussing that next weeks issue -- someone brought up the president and melania on their first overseas trip. the president reached for melanias hand on the red carpet. she sort of slapped it away. somebody brought it up. pecker said i didnt see that. someone said, well, its all over the news. pec...

Because they know they had 11-1 in favor of conviction even on the counts that ended up being dismissed. thats the only real legal implication. otherwise its just interesting color. >> sandra: were hearing a lot from the president this morning via the exclusive interview with ainsley on "fox & friends" this morning. the key question is and if i could ask it simply to you, did president trump do anything wrong when he gave cohen money out of his own pocket to make those payments? >> absolutely no...

Taken money -- she talked anyway of course, but the application -- trump doesnt like to spend money on anything, as you know.a the cheapest man in the world. >> she didnt stay quiet very >> tucker: but the deal was extortion. im not defending this. i dont think the president is telling the truth about it. i think it probably did have a relationship with her. but it stillll extortion. so why are we excusing that? its a sincere question. >> tucker, its extortion if she asked him for the money. its...

And so the implication is it had come out that trump had a relationship with a porn star. people would have been totally shocked and wouldnt have voted for him because that just doesnt sound like the donald trump they knew. thats ridiculous, actually. this wasnt a campaign contribution. this was hush money paid to a porn star and thats what it is. its not a crime, its embarrassing. honestly. >> according to what we heard in court yesterday, according to what we heard in court yesterday, the pres...

Pleading guilty. >> and, arianna, this legal development yesterday kind of collided with the pr narrative that the president and his team has been spooling out. >> yes, it did. we cannot overstate the magnitude of what happened yesterday. particularly with respect to michael cohens guilty plea in federal court under oath implicating president trump in the commission of a federal crime. now, the pr and legal strategy in the past 24 hours of the white house administration and president trump has b...

Republicans for two specific congress ma congressmen and their conduct, its a good talking point. >> this is not draining the swamp. the swamp is getting thicker. >> we would say he is not responsible for the conduct of collins -- >> is he responsible for the conduct of cohen? maybe not manafort because manafort d these things before he was involved with trump or maybe not with trumps knowledge. michael cohen, i mean thats directly implicating the president. >> michael cohen is directly implicat...