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Keep going up the chain in a prosecution, you don't always succeed. but these are good prosecutors, they know how to do these kinds of cases. it seems unlikely to me that they would have given weisselberg a pass if they didn't think he had value to offer them. >> the benefit of immunity is that i guess you're supposed to tell the prosecutors whatever they want to know or whatever you know and in exchange for that you can't be prosecuted for the things you tell them. i'm assuming there may be different flavors of immunity but the point is allen weisselberg can't get out there and plead the fift...

Immunity to someone because you're hoping that they'll be able to either provide information or testify against someone who is a little bit higher up on the food chain than they are. you don't use a big fish to eat a smaller fish. my read is that he gets immunity in the hope that he can provide help with someone else and cohen doesn't look like the big fish that sdny would be going after here. >> so the implication is there's a bigger fish, we're trying to figure out who that is. the obvious choice is donald trump sr. but it could be donald trump jr. or eric. those are the only possibilities o...

Investigation, when they meddle in the investigation. moments after president trump tweeted that russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. the president essentially giving vladimir putin a pass, despite intelligence assessments that say otherwise despite his own secretary of state saying otherwise. his meeting with putin underscores the growing tension between the u.s. and its allies. let's bring in fred pleitgen. is this another pr win for vladimir putin at the hands of the united states president? >> yeah, it certainly seems that way. it's interesting, d...

Tonight, more questions about the legality of a reported $130,000 payment just before the election to a porn actress. the payment allegedly intended to buy her silence about a sexual relationship with donald trump. let's go to cnn's brian todd. these questions just are coming as some prominent social and religious conservatives are giving the president a pass apparently on these allegations. >> reporter: that's right. two evangelical leaders say they're willing to overlook the story basically because they believe the president has delivered on their agenda. this comes as a liberal leaning watc...

Exert any undue influence. that of course a legal term of art. your responses from the republican heads seem to give the president a pass. burr saying this is about him being politically inexperienced. what's your take? >> well, what the senator is saying now is certainly that the president may have been operating from a position of political experience or naievete. what he said over the summer, and he did not confirm this directly, but what he said to his political allies, colleagues, this was a forceful active interference by the president and one that made him uncomfortable to where he imme...