president trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. he says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected chemical attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. we will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. but first, the other news that s breaking right now that s tied to russia in a whole different way. the fbi raided the law office of michael cohen, president trump s long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. according to cohen s lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special counsel robert mueller and empowered by search warrants from u.s. attorneys in the southern district of new york. according to the new york times, the fbi seized e-mails, tax documents, and business records from cohen s office. thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. the move
republican senators like lindsey graham and chuck grassley appearing to give the president permission to get rid of his attorney general but there s another way to look at it which is that they seem to be trying to say any action off until after the midterm elections and the confirmation of judge kavanaugh to the supreme court and the question is are they telling the president he should get rid of jeff sessions or hoping they can slow walk this until things calm down but if you re bob mueller you see november as a day on the calendar that to get your job done before just in case. so susan in his punchback yesterday yegs listjeff session the litany of things he had been leading that were on point with what the president wanted, from enforcing immigration laws, focusing on ms-13, the gang, promoting economic growth, et
cetera, et cetera. do the practice not assuage the president at small i know he thinks that he s not going after the president s political opponents but he s executin
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at one point gary palmer was defending and blasting his colleagues who were criticizing sessions. but gary palmer told me he has his own problems with sessions. he specifically listed some of the things that the president was tweeting about this morning regarding document production to congress, rod rosenstein perhaps not the best person to be working in the justice department, according to him. he was unhappy with certain things that sessions was doing. i think it s really interesting, the conversation is changing. i don t think that s a good sign for sessions. it s a matter of time, i think, before he goes. ryan, help me understand with all of the things you listed, including the civil threats, why does it behoove him or does he think it does to have this spat with the attorney general? i love being on with rachel. she brings fresh reporting. isn t that interesting? we should have booked him. yo
ami or at his direction. this is not a positive development by any stretch of the imagination for donald trump. it s obvious to me that these documents that are being referenced would already be in the hands of government prosecutors and investigators, and, again you think only a matter of time. there s a concern that, well, they re been moved and they may never be heard from or seen again. you think they already have? well, i think they absolutely already have them unless they were destroyed before mr. pecker was granted immunity but when the government grants immunity to someone, that s a big deal. the government just doesn t hand out immunity that easily and they would have required any such documents at that time to be turned over. so, i want to play something for you, this is what president trump told fox news about the crimes michael cohen pleaded guilty to. listen to this, michael. what he did and they weren t taken out of campaign finance.
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welcome to the lead. i m 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 isn t 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? so that i m going to do that right away. i have come up to spoken to me. spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with so where are we? with the funding. the news after trump lashed
recording of last month of a conversation with trump two months before the 2016 presidential election about payments to former playboy model karen mcdougall. and i ve spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set it up with where are we funding. reporter: anoth
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did you see the article, there was an article in the washington post or in vox about it. it s unbelievable because none of it is true. none of it is true. look, there are problems there. we ll have to see which way they take their constitution. the president of the united states is co-signing something from a white nationalist group. it s just beyond fathomable now. and that he would hear something on tv and not use a power that you and i pray to whatever we believe in every night, which is to pick up the phone and say, hey, is this true in south africa? he s got the best intelligence in the world. they would have told him the truth. instead he enlists his secretary of state to chase down a bogus report that he heard on tv. and the reason he did it is what really shakes me in my bones. he can t care about this as an issue, there s too much racism at home to worry about. i believe that he s reaching out to a group he s been told he needs. and he d
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2016 election. it was also the follow up on any other criminal activity that might have been discovered in the course of that investigation. as these things unfold, and again this is the nature of an investigation where one witness leads to another, more information comes to light, and when and if prosecutors find reason to believe that other criminal activity has taken place, they not only have the right to follow up on that, they have a duty to pursue it. and certainly given robert mueller s charge here, he has a duty to pursue it. i really do think this goes to a broader point. i ll make it very quickly. i think it s really important at this juncture that the president changes approach. i think he s got to stop the combat with this investigation because this is going downhill for him. he needs to now, i think, adopt a posture of more
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against michael cohen. but give us your testimony and we ll sort out who needs to get charged. it can depend. it may not be with regard to state crimes. i know there was some talk today that the state- the district attorney locally looking in to trump s issues as well. it is just not general immunity for all things everywhere, but specifically as it relates to this. and this is the u.s. attorney who granted immunity to weisselberg in the cohen case, but as you point out, we learned the manhattan d.a. is also considering pursuing criminal case involving the trump organization and two of its executives. do you think that those two jurisdictions are talking to each other? i would guess they are. one of the hall marks of effective law enforcement and prosecution is cooperating with other offices. if you look back at the cohen case, it seems to be the case that that sprung out of the state s investigation of this guy
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worthwhile listening to. i appreciate it, chris. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. a big show ahead. not only is one of the president s long time friends flipping on him. he had a secret safe full of evidence. donald trump s friend s name is david pecker. david pecker is a publisher of the national inquirer, granted immunity by the feds. he knew about donald trump s hush money payments to silence women who said they had sexual encounters with trump. a friend of the president is telling vanity fair, and i quote, holy sh- and you can guess the rest. this is more bad news for this white house. the bare knuckle tabloid
reportedly kept a safe pull of documents on hush money payments and stories it killed, that s according to the associated press. so just days after trump s former fixer and keeper of secrets michael cohen flipped on him, we re learning that david pecker has flipped too. can you imagine what s going through the president s mind right n
on russian territory with us supplied-weapons speaking ahead of the cuban naval visit vladimir putin warned of a possible russian response the easley and you put enough today in the worst supply weapons to the zone of combat operations and call for the use of these weapons against our territory. then why do we not have the right to do the same? to mirror these actions? i m not ready to say that we ll do it tomorrow, but we of course, should think about it elsewhere. moscow has been stepping up tactical nuclear drills to staging exercises with neighboring belarus near the ukrainian border. russian tactical nukes delivered from either ground or air can level entire cities for their the kremlin insists it has no plans at this stage to use the matthew chance cnn moscow thanks to matthew tonight. and thanks to you, of course, as always, for being with us ac30 60 with anderson begins right now tonight on 360. what happens now that the president s son is a convicted felon and