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Weisselberg. jennifer weisselberg told hallie jackson hes not going to flip on trump because donald trump has so much leverage over him. heres what she said. >> what is the leverage? >> issues with the presidential inaugural committee. >> can you tell us anything more about that? >> i mean, it seems like it bleeds into the trump organization. and there were some things going on after donald was already president where they were capitalizing on making money for themselves. and it looks like in de...

Its very possible that while allen weisselberg could be charged and tried and could be convicted and sentenced, he might not be looking at long time in prison. and how much time hes looking at might determine whether or not he decides to cooperate. that will give us some indication of the leverage that the new york state authorities have over him and how persuadable he might be to turn or flip on others. >> if the company ends up getting nicked in this case its been theorize that of course all b...

To achieve with doing this? what were hoping to achieve is to set up a platform in africa where africans can come and express their given talent. we know that africans are brilliant and we really want to lead because the pandemic, virus and the pathogen, they live with us. lets leverage, lets take advantage of those and study them and provide the solution. and to that, we should be able to develop this early warning system that were talking about that will not protect only africa, but will also ...

Daughter-in-law of alan weisselberg. shes provided them with materials related to the trump organization. so at this point this morning, im curious, jennifer, your reaction to that your former father-in-law has now surrendered and were awaiting the details of this indictment. >> im interested to see how broad it is. i think the d.a. has done a good job. im not surprised the indictment has come today, but to back pedal on what you said, hes been using my kids and leverage, as pawns to try to get ...

Client, probably told to do that by his client. im disappointed hes to be this but we will find out what the charges are tomorrow and i have a feeling we should all expect the unexpected to a certain extent. >> barbara, the fact that the grand jury is operating through november, is that an indication theres more to come? when people see mr. weisselberg who apparently is not cooperating, maybe he gets charged, there is still the question of what about trump. he may be on the line or maybe the com...

About something from the defense lawyers. defense lawyers pointed to the harm that the business, the trump organization, could face if it were indicted, including damage to its relationships with bank and business partners, the people said. what is the danger of that? >> it could potentially put organizations out of business. we saw this with enron in the paths. banks dont want to lend money to organizations that have criminal charges hanging over their heads. donald trump is a developer who has...

Escalation dominance. >> shannon: i want to play something from dan crenshaw, republican and a veteran himself about this. >> this strike that killed five iranian back shield militia groups is a good thing especially if youre going to be talking about trying to enter into a new nuclear deal with iran. which we should be skeptical of. at least do it with leverage. >> shannon: thats where we are. we have a situation with the iran backed militias. also this conversation that we are trying to be bac...

Bipartisan support for what biden did. air strikes on the she militia. president trump did similar air strikes in 2017, 2018, 2019. congressman crenshaw is correct we want to have leverage as we go into these negotiations with iran and iran is certainly testing this by using its proxies. doing drone attacks on our military and diplomatic personnel. its important biden responded. biden used self defense under article two is the basis to respond. the response was proportional. i think this is goin...

Bigger partisan plan, its only going to be able to be what joe manchin is going to accept. and this is another instance where progressives may have some challenges in terms of executing their leverage. >> every single -- we write this this morning in punch bowl news, every lawmaker in the house and senate said its joe manchin right now. we spoke to alexandria ocasio-cortez yesterday and you have to remember when you speak to -- not you but we all have to remember when you speak to any individual...

Struggling. if we can put that together, i think we can get to 218 in the house. as i was listening to the comments earlier, theres a lot of focus on senator manchin, every one of us can be senator manchin if we want to be. >> you put your hat in that ring? >> no, im not. but anybody could exercise that sort of leverage and that makes it really tough. i think we need to do the biggest step forward that we can do that gets us 218 votes in the house and 50 votes plus the vice president in the sena...