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basically how prosecutors are going to tear down trumps defense piece by piece. >> that is a devastating blow to the former president. >> the only time you want to hear someone say "the boss is not going to leave" is after the third encore of a springsteen concert. >> making sure that everyone that is involved in the criminal enterprise is held responsible. >> wow, this is what its going to look like when his former allies turn against him in a fulton county court of law. >> it really ...

i dont like the bill. >> speaker johnsons been on the job for, what, two or three weeks now and thats like throwing a quarterback in the fourth quarter and expect him to make up for three quarters of failure and youre behind 35-0. the reason he finds himself in the position hes in because of nine months under speaker mccarthy. >> its also a no vote from bob good of virginia on speaker mike johnsons plan to avoid a government shutdown. but there are some democrats who are signaling they...

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 ....

Say, he should be prosecuted? >> yeah, you know, chris, there are times when even if a coconspirator or a defendant, we can now refer to giuliani as a defendant because he has been indicted in georgia, there are times when prosecutors would desperately like to acquire the information and the evidence they have against others, but there are some people that we cant clean up sufficiently, i mean that figuratively to put them before a jury and urge that jury to believe their testimony and use it to...

Talk all about their own crimes, which they would otherwise have a fifth amendment against self-incrimination, so they can talk about them without the risk of prosecutors using their statements against them, and they can talk about the crimes of others. what information they can provide to prosecutors if they were to become cooperating witnesses. that is step two. step three is once the prosecutors get that information, during the proffer session, they make a decision. what we want to do with th...

The next couple of weeks until hes completely debriefed and rock solid. >> conversations have been going on for a few day heres. there was a proffer session he was given some indication of what he has of information he could provide. for the record it took 25 minutes for it to be read i gather from its entirety. >>tist interesting the proffer session was exceedingly long. usually you just put in basically mutt you need to do to make the facts, but this went on forever about every single thing in...

Lawyers have, you know, always sort of signaled they didnt really believe that manafort could offer mueller very much. but thats an open question and the way the process would normally work is there would be whats called a proffer session so that manafort could lay out a little of what he knows, if he wanted to do that. as far as we can tell, there hasnt been much interest in that proffer session so far. >> harry, take me inside with the mueller prosecutors, what they are thinking. theyve got hi...

About this immunity, why does he immediate immunity in the first place? >> defense lawyers are cautious and this is a complicated white collar investigation. defense lawyers never know exactly what prosecutors are looking for so it is often the case that they say to prosecutors, look. my guy wont talk to you unless you give him immunity. that doesnt mean he is guilty of any crime. that doesnt mean hes even being investigated for any crime but he was certainly involved with michael cohen. we know...

Thing. if you lie to the prosecutors or the fbi during that session, you can be prosecuted for that. so a proffer session obviously occurred and my bet is that in that proffer session, gates revealed, russian connections. because the manafort indictment indicates that the road to russia leads 32 you the ukraine, where manafort had a lot of connections. when those connections started to close down, they were russian connections, because it was a russian government in the ukraine at that time. and...

Election? and gates has a lot to say about that. gates might even know, well, gates might even know what happened at this infamous meeting with donald trump, jr. in which the russians came, he held the meeting in order to get dirt on hillary clinton. everyone said, nothing happened at that meeting. manafort was at that meeting. likely he told gates what happened at that meeting. so there is a lot of information gates could have. one about these contacts with the russian intelligence agent and ab...