Lets talk about all of these threats facing the president. Im going to start with Tony Schwartz who tweeted on friday, the other shoe has dropped. The smoking gun equivalent to nixons tapes. Allen weisselberg knows everything. Trump will resign as ive always assumed. Only a matter of time now. Your thoughts. This is catastrophic as Tony Schwartz. Trump is in big trouble. We could talk about tractortrailertorial strategy or mother whip. My mother said youre going to find out who your real friends are when youre in trouble. Turns out the president doesnt have real friends. Hes got staffers, employees, when push comes to shove, they stand up and flip. He doesnt even have a dog. He has eric. Elie would think, okay. I was going to go this way. Now im going to go this way. You wrote a piece going after family. You mentioned eric on your blog you said Allen Weisselberg immunity deal shows prosecutors going after the family, not the business. You dont need Allen Weisselberg to get cohn. Cohn is a floppish clown and going down anyway. You needle weisselberg if youre going after his family. I think thats what were seeing. Thats the next Pressure Point for trump. Trump as a father is more like your mamas creepy boyfriend than he is your real daddy. We dont know he has prantal instincts, but he seems to think hes above the law. Arantal instincts, but he seems to think hes above the law. The perception was that Michael Flynn in part makes this deal. His son maybe was protected by him doing that. It doesnt always work that way. We have a congressman throwing his wife like all the way under the bus as he goes down. That is sort of the redline that donald trump set up before. Dont go after my businesses. Theoretically maybe that extends to his children that run his businesses. He did say going after the family would cross the line for the Mueller Investigation. He has said that. The issue goes back to what are his legal vulnerabilities. Mueller has been moving at the speed of light. The speed with which he has gotten the number of plea deals and now convictions is really astounding for the legal process. It is very, very difficult whether we look at new york state ag which is looking into the trump foundation. That also very important. Could directly implicate the kids. Trump does not have pardon power there. It takes time so in the context of a political cycle, the question is, do you get enough explicit evidence in addition to what youve gotten from Michael Cohen because right now its a cohen allegation with some evidence behind it as we know from the tape, which i think is quite damming for trump, but politically he has survived having a literally having a university where he had to settle a 25 million lawsuit for fraud, defrauding students. We already knew we had the tape, the access Hollywood Tape where he literally admitted to assault Sexual Assault of women. These are crimes. Its not like he hasnt survived politically. A lot of allegations that have been potentially criminal and we are in a process where i absolutely belief were going to see a lot more criminal allegations and evidence of crime. I think the issue is the political cycle with him which it happens and the disagree to which the republicans, this is where were in uncharted territory. The type of allegations we have about the president should have already sunk him politically. In any normal spear of politics in this country, the party of the president would say you got to go. And thats not happening. Youre on the radio every day. Youre talking to people. You get trump people who call in. Donald trump is exposed if anything is the disagree to which the Republican Party is not really a policy driven entity from the base up. It is a personality cult around donald trump and literally theres nothing he could do to lose that personality cult. Thats true. On the other side. Trump presence is going to make an amazing crime mini series on netflix. Got that going for us. The reality they call when Trump Supporters call and progressive channel will mimic what they hear on fox news. What about hillarys email . Theres nothing, but lets not lose site of one thing u. They are getting delivered something they want. Theyre getting cakavanaugh perhaps. Gorsuch. Want to turn the bible to american law. Not all of them, some of them. Its not like cult trump because hes loud and rude. Hes delivering on the promises they feel passionate about. Guess who is delivering a lot of it, jeff sessions. And hes complaining about them. He doesnt care about agenda. And conservatives. All he cares about is keeping himself out of prison or not being impeached because again, since sessions is the most effective cabinet member in terms of carrying out the agenda. You would think he would be loving him. Hes trying to get him to go away. Thats obstruction at justice. And got Lindsey Graham to say get rid of him. To whatve you want. And dwragrassley a long time friend. Everybody over the side. Lets talk about the legal jeopardy potentially he could be in. Set aside the fact nothing politically going to happen to him. His base doesnt care what he does. Republican party my favorite tweet was the idea of paul ryan practici practicing shrugging in front of a mirror. Legally, what could happen to him. Hes using the power of presidency as a cloaking device for his crimes. If you look at statute of limitati limitations, looking at it, Campaign Finance fraud is violations is six years, tax fraud is five years. Tax fraud is six years. That takes us well into 2021. If anybody remembering when obama was coming up, people were saying to obama you have to prosecute bush and cane. Obama, oh, were not going to talk about the past. I dont think thats going work in 2020. You have to say youre going to prosecute trump. And if hes out of office in 2021. All of these crimes, theres a reason he hasnt been charged yet. Statute of limitations tolls based on when the crime started which as far as we can tell is 2016, 2017 is going to be there for a chargeable offense in 2021 when he no longer has the cloaking device around him. If were not going to have a political solution because Mitch Mcconnell pretends he cant see. A lot of these alleged crimes took place in the state of new york, every state official wants to be president of the United States. Where the smart play is ill prosecute him. You read my mind. Im sorry. We did that thing. Yes, i think thats true on a federal level. The point about the new york state ag and new York District attorney, number one, those are we have an election right now for new york state ag. We already have interim who has gone after civilly after the trump foundation. As well as the Tax Department now looking into the tax fraud, potential tax fraud crimes by the trump foundation. And the ag. The district attorney. As i said, the cloak of the presidency which is essentially the department of justice memory du memorandum which says which legal scholars debate whether the president can be. Says who. Says Rod Rosenstein. Its his call. Im going to put on my federal prosecutor hat and make a claim. Federal prosecutors can be coldblooded. That i ha they will go after your family. Whats the end game of the new york federal investigation, mueller referred the investigation to the Southern District for Michael Cohen. Well e on tuesday Michael Cohen became a convicted felon eight times over, theyre still trying to use other people. What are they going on . To what end . This cannot all be about Campaign Finance violations being the end game. Approving donald trump violated Campaign Finance laws. There has to be a bigger end game. Its called kushner, its called ivanka. That will give a prosecutor leverage over the president , a deal could be made. Dont resign. Dont run for reelection. Well leave the kids alone. I wrote for the daily beast this week the idea of potentially charging donald trump and the exception the doj regulations extraordinary circumstances. This is a crime about how the man got elected to office. This is election fraud. Even attorneyclient privilege theres a fraud exception. Even the doj say you cannot indict a sitting president. Extraordinary circumstances have to be present. In this case, there are. This the only way hes in process. To have him sit in office two years or six years, the cloud of criminality of how he got to the office is thethere. While he puts on Supreme Court justice. If in fact the significance of the cohen flip is that hes admitting he participant instead a dream that was specifically about getting trump elected, about preventing him not being elected. Doesnt donald trump get right out you cant say he cant be prosecuted for a crime that put him in office. The constitution says i dont care. I care. We care. Constitutionally speaking and i said this before, indictment doesnt get you where you want to go. You can indict him, convict him. He can go to jail and still be president. He would be president from prison. The only way is the impeachment clause or 25th amendment. Trump can aport Supreme Court justices from the jail. Because the forefathers, but the people. I dont think they were anybody at this tables forefathers. Again, i dont think theyve thought that congress would be so partisan that they would allow a member of their own party who was a thug to remain in office. If you had george washington, he would be like who is this Mitch Mcconnell guy. The senate originally was not elected by the people. Chosen by the state representatives. There was idea a senate would be this hype every paer partisan. They would expect them to see the evidence. The trial goes as we know in the senate. And not only that, when they were appointed, there were no political consequences. People like Mitch Mcconnell go if i go home to kentucky, having voted to convict a republican president who is giving the base, White Christian conservatives everything they want. Thats the end of political career. That wasnt present. One point about the senate. Chris haze has been making the point really importantly if you look at the spread of population the senate doesnt represent the population. 30 of country. We have a senate that is politically representing. That is political. Its the ultimate minority rule. Do we effectively have a president who is above the law. So this is what i just want to make sure we dont forget one important principal because i actually believe institutionally the Justice Department is wrong in term of memorandum. I want to be on record of saying that. At the same time it is important to recognize we have seen a politicization of Law Enforcement at times and part of why that memorandum exists is we dont want a system in which the department of justice and fbi essentially ends up becoming a shadowed government. Thats the important thing. The important thing is we have so much evidence just whats in the publics fear of donald trump saying while im sworn to uphold the laws and the constitution of the land, i am simply not going to do it and take the position that i dont have to do it. I am going to take the position i can take over the Mueller Investigation. He said that publically. Im going to take the position that people should be legally barred of cooperating with evidence of protecting a crime. Im going to take the position that the u. S. Attorney general who is supposed to be the highest lawyer for the land, not the white house, should be lal on loyal only to me. Even as im carry can go out the policy admission of the administration and only line session is drawing because hes made institutional arguments in court on muslim ban for example. The only line i wont just go out there and violate the law. Our friend michael has a book if you can keep it referring to republican if you can keep it. I think we are at the debate of a criminal. The doj talks about rational too much of a distraction. Had a five week trial, potentially its a spectacle. Chief wore a robe with gold on it. He made himself based in. Im going to give you last word. Were going to go. Does donald trump survive his full term. Yes, i think he wins in 2020. No. I think our country is in for is in a very bad situation. On that frightening note. Unless you like donald trump in which case its a glorious note. Join us later in the show. Thank you very much. Next the safe, the safe holding at the National Inquirer at the national quirer is holding a safe they have r. 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In many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40s. Did you direct him to make in payment. He made the deal. He pled to two counts. Which nobody understands. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get good information by watching good shows. Those two arent even a crime. They werent Campaign Finance. Did you know about the payments. Later on, i knew. Later on. You have to understand, what he did and they werent taken out of Campaign Finance. Thats a big thing. Thats a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign. They didnt come out of the campaign. They came from me. The man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump might have just put a bullet. Implicated trump in illegal scheme to silence two women who had affairs with him. Cohen may get backup from david pecker. Who has been granted immunity in connection to the cohen case. Soer Associated Press reports inquirer kept a safe. Here to discuss Stormy Daniels attorney michael. Good to see you. Good morning. Lets first talk about Michael Cohen pleading out. What is the significance of him pleading out to the case you are activelily involved in. Very significant joy for two fundamental reasons. First of all, Michael Cohen pleading out in criminal case will allow the stay of civil case to be lifted and we will be permitted to perceive and seek the deposition of Michael Cohen which im 100 confident will be granted as well as a deposition of donald trump. During that deposition were going to have an opportunity to Ask Donald Trump some very difficult questions under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, what he did about it. And all of his conduct, criminal conduct potentially relating to the coverup. Is the reason you believe that youll be able to depose the president because now Michael Cohen is no longer at risk of criminal prosecution. Hes already pleaded it out. Thats correct. That investigation has now generally concluded to Michael Cohen which was the only reason they provided to the court for the court to implement the stuff. If you are able to depose donald trump and or Michael Cohen, would you be willing to make the depositions public. Absolutely. Were going to fight vehemently to insist that the depositions are public immediately. Not just the transcript, but were going to ask for videotaped depositions of both individuals. This is a matter of public service. The American Public knows exactly or should know exactly what happened here. They deserve to know the truth. They deserve to know what evidence there is. They deserve to know what the president did in connection with this. And they deserve to know it all. Now, let me just unpack just a second in your what yview wha the significance of it is, now we have david pecker national n inquirer boss. If youre the average person out there. Why should you care wh