Of Michael Cohen. You dont use a big fish to eat a smaller fish. He gets immunity in the hope that he can provide help with someone else and cohen doesnt look like the big fish they would be going after here. So who might be the target of latest move by the mueller team and could it blow the lid off trump eegs financial dealings. Sg. Plus, to impeach or not to impeach. Plus, to impeach or impeach. Plus, to impeach or impeach. But new reaction on what the plea deal means on the Stormy Daniels case against the president. It has nothing to do with the sex or whether donald trump had an affair. Its about the bounds that this individual donald trump together with all of the other continent around him went to in order to deceive the American Public. I am highly confident in the coming weeks we are going to negotiability a resolution with Michael Cohen related to the civil litigation, multiple cases that we have with him. Im highly confident that ultimately hes going to cooperate with me in connection with our attempts to get to the truth and to bring donald trump to justice. Also, new today, Omarosa Manigault newman weighing in on public attacks against former lawyer. I am really, really saddened moreover to see donald trump kick Michael Cohen while hes down while praising Paul Manafort. Michael cohen did everything he was asked to do. He was directed to make those mortgage payme payments by the president of the United States. He was completely loyal carry egg out all of the things he was instructed to do by donald trump. Do you think he has evidence that would be material to the russia gate portion of the mueller investigation. He has that and much more. Meanwhile, getting new insight. Mystery safe in just how the National Enquirer kept negative stories about the president out of the tabloid. This in light of ceo cut can go immunity deal across the Michael Cohen case. Former executive said here on msnbc last night. This is the way the inqueerer roe operated for a while. One of the benefits of being the owner, you can accomplish what you want. Thats how you collect friends who want those favors and take care of each other. Thats the situation that happened with trump. Were you surprised that david pecker basically turned on donald trump and obtained immunity agreement. No, not at all. At the end of the day, whats important to david pecker is david pecker. Details and insight joining me now, jeff bennett. Cnbc editor at large. John hardwood. Former federal prosecutor. With the welcome to you all, im going start with you. Pretty bad week for the president. Also with the inspector of cohen cooperating. The mystery National Enquirer safe. All these stories about the president allegedly. Can you give us a gauge of the president and the staffs mood because we know hes gone on a tweet storm this morning. Thats true, alex, great to be with you. Look, President Trump, people close to President Trump describe his mood as calm for now, but they say theyre certainly bracing for the president to melt down and lash out. As you mentioned, were getting a view of whats on the president s mind as we often do on saturdays like this based on his twitter feed. Apparently up early watching fox news. He tweeted his reaction to a segment about Hillary Clintons email investigation. Hes also suggesting a new tad deal in the works with mexico. Negotiators for mexico and u. S. Work out a deal to renegotiate the north American Free trade agreement. Also attacking own attorney general. Jeff sessions yet again. Hes now suggesting that Jeff Sessions isnt fully aware. Doesnt fully understand what is happening beneath him at the justice department. So at this hour, President Trump is at his private golf course. Dont expect to hear directly from him today, but just yesterday, the president was in ohio, he delivered a keynote at a gop ohio fund raising dinner. And i can tell you what he didnt say was almost as important as what he did say. I was there covering it alex. The president made no mention of the political and legal troubles he faces. He also didnt mention the legal troubles facing former associates. Instead spent much of the 45 minutes attacking democrats. Attacking democratic policies and standards. Take a look at what hes saying. While democrats run down our country, they really do. They run it down. Always negative. Nasty the way they come after me. Get used to it. We won the election. Were going win again in 2020 and hopefully keep winning. He says hope fly were going to keep winnings. Pretty much conceded the republicans will have a hard time holding on to the house. Big question now is will the president will Political Legal issues be a drag on the party. Now that you have this plea from Michael Cohen, directly implicating the president. And aprobe growing around the Trump Organization. Jeff bennett from the white house starting us off. Appreciate that. Joining me now, john harwood, cnbc editor at large. Political correspondent. We welcomed youd both again. John, start with you. We have the National Enquirer safe. Who do we know about what stories could be held there, do we have any facts on that. Any speculation at this time . Anything we have not heard of before . Theres definitely a chance. David pecker killed tons of stories about President Trump and other people that will we have not that have not been unearthed for the reason they were sitting in that safe. This is very consequence s. Even though jeff was just saying that people close to trump talked about how calm he is. He did not look calm to me with this desperate flailing hes doing on twitter and some of the messages hes been giving in public. So, aaron, would it matter at all for the president s standing and how so if it does, if it all National Enquirer stories out there, both to base and beyond. Alex, thats exactly the right question. You have to wonder how much a large part of this country is tied in to these news developments. Trumps base has shown they stand with him. One of the most fascinating aaccouak accounts in the last week. The jury did vote on eight of 8 counts. A lot of people tuned out to these stories. Said we heard the access hollywood tape. We know the president is a womanizer. Is a playboy. Its his reputation when he came in the race. A lot of people say theyre not affected by this. Thats why theres a bigger question there about whether any financial crimes, Campaign Finance crimes, or obstruction of justice were kmcommitted. Immunity deals, what surprised you more . All of them surprised me because the shoes keep dropping. The peck you are one as much as we know right now, seems to be more consequenthall. All of the stories residing in the safe. Not just about the president , but maybe members of the president s family. Well see. In terms of allen weisselberg, he knows everything about the Trump Organization. Appears it was a limited use immunity. Interested to hear what he has to say about this later. Simply covering the responses he would give with respect to the case against Michael Cohen. Now did he and the grand jury go other places as well beyond simply questions about cohen or will he in the future. Will it be a precursor to broader branch. We dont know that yet. Right now we know he is a big promotional problem for the president and i mean, its a problem to begin with. Simply by crop rating Michael Cohens account. We dont know how much bigger it can get. Cfo you follow the paper trail. Always say follow the money. This would be the guy to do that with. So if hes able to expand what he testifies or has discussions with, well see. Aaron, there is a debate as to whether the president is above the law. Not indictable while in office. If hes not, it would be ability to conduct duties as the president of the United States. However, implications politically from this week, how do you read them. So youre right. Long standing doj policy is that the president they have to follow a pattern here basically and turn anything over to congress where sort of political remedy to any offenses committed while in hauoffice. Doesnt mean President Trump is out of political problems here. Not a lot of people on capitol hill in congress saying the i word. Talking about impeachment. A lot of republicans are of course trying to standby their leader here and their party. Democrats i believe have become aware this also fires up President Trumps base. Hear him come out in fox and friends interview this week and speak directly to his base. You see midterm don trump out there talking to the base. A lot of self confidence. Gave himself an a plus for how hes been doing in office. Politically its an entanglem t entanglement. Im curious john. Lets listen to what the president himself said about impeachment. Pick up on whether or not the economy might tank. Youre a cnbc guy. Let me ask you about that. I dont know how you can defeat somebody who has done a great job. I tell you what. If i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor. Without this thinking, new york city you would see numbers that you wouldnt believe. Two questions to you, john, the fact the president actually acknowledges the inspector of impeachment, how significant is that and to his point you wroou see the market crash if he were impeached. Two things, i think its very significant he was addressing that issue directly. I also had a conversation with a long time republican tom cole conservative from oklahoma. Former head of House Campaign committee of republicans. He said im disturbed bid what i see. I think that its clear and convincing proof is laid out, republican members might go for impeachment at some point. So the fact that republicans are now beginning to acknowledge that, some of its defensive in the campaign to reduce as a r e vulnerabas a rul vulnerabili vulnerability. Secondly in terms the of the market crashing, that is a delusional statement from the president t. Market is in a nine year run up. More than doubled under barack obama. It has gone up significantly under President Trump. Certainly 2017. Its basically flat in 2018, but it is not the case that the market would crash if trump were impeached. What drives the market is fundamentals of the economy and corporate profits. And the outlook for those right now is pretty strong. Okay. Always strong commentary from both of you. Aar erin, john, thank you so much. Coming up next, ask a legal expert what the immunity deals mean. 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President trump in ohio addressing the crowd during one of the most tumultuous weeks of his presidency which ended with news of immunity deals on Michael Cohen case for President Trumps friend and National Enquirer accomplisher david pecker as well as Trump Organization cfo allen weisselberg. Glen, it was god to see you theyve been offered immunity. Somewhat unusual these two men were given immunity. Let me take a step back. Involved in a large scale prosecution, the prosecutors have to make choices. When they have multiple witness who is may have engaged instead wrongdoing, may have criminal exposure. Have to decide how consequencehall is each witness to the investigatioinvestigatio. They were talking about david pecker and talking about allen weisselberg. The first thing i thought of was okay we know now that bob muellers team will be off to interview both of those men to see if they can one, corroborate what they heard on the tape and see what kind of information they might otherwise have that would be helpful to the investigation. Thats whale theyve decided to do for mr. Pecker and mr. Wie weisselberg. These are decisions they make every day in every major case. I assume instruct the right balance by giving them immunity to benefit from the information these men have to provide. I guess my next question is to what end you have pecker, weisselberg, theyve got immunity. Youve got Michael Cohen who is agreeing to work with the special prosecutor who has Michael Flynn, george papadopoulos, rick gates cooperating f. The president cannot billion indicted because he is a sitting president , what is the goal of mueller securing all these people. Great question, alex. All of these men are in slightly different categories, but let me just take a step back and say, i do believe there is a narrow pathway to indictment. The code of federal regulations are the rules that governor how to department of justice operates provide that special counsel can request an exception to doj policy. Thats will be decided by rod rosenstein. I think that remains as question. More as a policy matter and legal matter. Going back to different circumstances that these various people find themselves in. We have seen a noncooperation agreement entered into with example Michael Cohen. He pled guilty to eight counts. Two of those counts include conspireing with the president to violate Campaign Finance laws. I have a feeling theyll call for all subsequent plea agreement. And try to secure Michael Cohens cooperation in the broader investigation as compared to the peckers and weisselbergs who i suspect will just run as immunized witness and collect up all the information that those two men have to offer. Lets take a listen to one of the jurors from manafort trial. Did the prosecution star witness, youre saying he didnt have that much impact on you. Most was just point that whole witness out. He had something to gain by saying what he said. Didnt make him a credible witness. We didnt like that he took a plea deal. Talk about that. The veracity of someone opening to gain immunity if theyre offering something or truthful or never been held accountable. Theyre permitted to testify under a grant of immunitimmunit. Never going be prosecuted for those crimes. Jurors look at those witnesses with great skepticism as they should. Let me tell you how i saw it play out in virginia. The prosecutors did a couple of really wise things. One, they put on all of the noncooperating witnesses, the tax preparers. Bank workers, all to prove to the jury that. All that to corroborate. You didnt need rick gates testimony. We gave it to you because he was a criminal partner that Paul Manafort picked. You can take his testimony out of the equation and theres still enough to convict. I got to tell you glen. I think im a lawyer at heart. I was enjoying this conversation. To impeach or not to impeach. The country is divided. Before break, number one biggest pay raises. Average weekly raises rising by 3 . Peoria illinois got nearly 24 . Or 277. Suffolk county massachusetts home to boston placing second with 12 gain. And near atlanta, Clayton County gained about 11 . To serve as the president of the United States, he has completely take tennessee presidency to the gutter. Omarosa still throwing the book at President Trump. Rankings of political page turner. Reports of thousands of copies in the first week. 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