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hours. heres wolf. happening now, breaking news. donald trump files a new brief urging the u.s. supreme court to reverse colorados decision kicking him off the ballot. our legal experts are standing by with details on the filing and what it could mean for the truly historic oral arguments next month. >> also tonight nikki haley sharpens her attacks on her rivals just five days out from the new hampshire primary. haley going after donald trump for losing the white house and dragging d...

Welcome to the lead. Im erica hill in for jake tapper. We begin with the poll tiblitic. Another huge blow to President Trump. His financial gatekeeper Allen Weisselberg granted immunity, the highest ranking executive at the Trump Organization who isnt named trump. One source telling Cnn Weisselberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried. He is mention and the Inthat Moux Cohen trump tape. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all the info regarding our friend david. You know ....

Words celebrate a wonderful life. kevin, in the recent memoir he wrote id like to see the politics return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the other the history of other nations and were more alike than different. as we celebrate john mccain and his life and his achievements and contributions to this country, i mean, is there a sense thats a conversation that perhaps can inspire in a different way now that were at this point? >> john mccain inspired a lot of people...

For? >> now, the manhattan d.a.s review in the very early stages and no decision made but according to "the times" a state investigation would focus on how the trump organization accounted for the reimbursement the michael cohen for the statement to stormy daniels. and one more thing about weisselberg. our source said he is not called back for additional questioning of weeks ago and unclear if hell be questioned again. >> athee thna jones, thank you. first of all, put it in perspective. were j...

Capitol hill and still find it problematic if the president were to fire him. >> so, scott, if thats the case, would you see, though, other republicans because he enjoys at kevin pointed out, support on capitol hill and see republicans speak up? >> i think so. at least in the past, senator sass and others from nebraska said that. but graham is really interesting. when i first heard his comments in the interview i started to think he caught deal with the president to be the next a.g. and maybe th...

Here we are today. >> okay. scott, i want you to weigh in. i want to play what kelly and conway told us about the meeting earlier and watch your response. >> the meeting itself was very brief. there was no information given, no action taken, no follow-up. this was standard operating procedure for the campaign. lets focus on what did not happen in that meeting. no information provided that was meaningful. no action taken. nothing. >> so campaigns try to get dirt on other campaigns all the tile. i...

That was part of kellyanne conways job. isnt this a bigger sticking point that kellyanne conway was doing with a fornt entity? >> i think to kevins point earlier, don, this campaign at the time this meeting happened wasnt robustly staffed. in fact, the campaign was always much smaller than some of the other campaigns that both kevin and i worked on together. so some of the vetting procedures and some of the things that would have normally been in place may not have been in place at the time. im ...

Its time that republicans stop thinking narrowly and start thinking broadly about defending the american democracy and the integrity of our elections. this is the most important issue facing us. and you know, don, i think of our previous republican nominees. i think of mitt romney who called russia our biggest geopolitical foe and got laughed at. i think what would it have taken for his campaign manager for his son tad romney to go into a meeting with a russian without vetting that russian and w...

Cnn political commentators ana navarro, kevin maddon and bakari sellers. good evening to all of you. ana, e-mails? >> yeah? >> were talking. >> the plot thickens, doesnt it? >> it does. >> you know, and its really telling and now you understand why his story changed three times. yesterday when i or was it this morning when i read his statement where he was admitting he had met with this russian lawyer for the purpose of receiving information against hillary clinton, i thought, my god, this kid w...

Geopolitical foe and got laughed at. i think what would it have taken for his campaign manager for his son tad romney to go into a meeting with a russian without vetting that russian and who that was and without mitt knowing or john mccain who knows that vladimir putin is a kgb thug. this is happening because the trumps think they are above the law. rules dont apply to them. >> thats a very good question, kevin madden, the appropriate person to answer that. what do you make of that, kevin? >> we...