they were certainly not doing that job. he knew about how the money was being spent. he told the new york a.g., look, you asked me what the policies are, what our policies are to make sure we aren t misspending charity money, there are no policies. my question for you, david, is the president tweets every d day, goes absolutely bananas that michael cohen was cooperating with mueller and the sdny. goes berserk over the flynn sentencing. do you think he had any idea of what you just explained, allen weisselberg, knows where the bodies are buried, was extremely helpful to this investigation, where the president has no immunity, has no ability to pardon himself or his children who seem very central to this case? he probably was aware of it in june when the new york attorney general made public its findings which quoted allen weisselberg. allen weisselberg is still at the trump organization. i saw company filings from a few weeks ago he was signing as a cfo and edp. so he s still there.
because their requests aren t the word of god, they re still a judge that s going to take their recommendations, but make his own decision? or is there something else that in your mind represents a stepback for mueller? that s precisely what i m talking about, if you re sitting across the table from the potential cooperator, you want them to understand that cooperation is absolutely in their best interest. you never make guarantees. ever. that s drilled into you as an agent, as a prosecutor, but you do want to lay out the likely scenarios that you re going to recommend to the judge, and let s be clear here, there was substantial cooperation by flynn, and he was at the lowest end of the sentencing recommendations so his cooperation clearly helped him, but this is a wrench and this in the mix, and this doesn t help mueller when he sits across the table from a future cooperator. except to say, look, cohen didn t totally excuse me, flynn did not totally, totally cooperate, and the ju
that s where president trump worked for decades in trump tower. him at the center. the children in one office doing a certain projects, allen weisselberg in another. he knows weisselberg has always been functioning who has to act extemporaneous, often react to what the trump family is doing. he always manages everything he does. it s how people talk about what s going on inside of the white house and inside of the president s legal team. what how long do all of the republicans on the hill keep saying nothing to see here? nothing to see in the sdny, nothing to see with the foundation, nothing to see how long is that sustainable? at this point, republicans feel like they re going to wait for robert mueller s report and they re going to hedge everything until then. i mean, you have them, some of them who are trump allies praying there s not some kind of smoking gun of russian collusion because at this point, they think he s the only way some of them win re-election in 2020. so t
things. they know it. he s a di aa director. he knows what they re listening to. yet he decides it s worth getting lying to the fbi as long as i cover up my relationship with russia. that s a very big deal for a general who was head of dia. to do that quick thinking in his head. he lied to the vice president of the united states about this. he s lied about it repeatedly. he lied about it as mueller said weeks before he lied to the fbi about it. so what is going on? and, look, my quick answer to most of these questions is it s always about money. there s a flow of money that we haven t found out about yet. and that has compromised him and likely compromised our president. sad. bob woodward always says, the truth emerges. after the break, we turn to the other huge legal blow for donald trump and his family today. the shuttering of the trump family foundation. and charges that it illegally coordinateded with the trump campaign. could michael cohen still be talking?
he was the national security adviser at the latter part of this. he was certainly, you know, well within bounds to have these sort of calls, so why did he need to lie? what was it covering up? and as frank says, why did h egoeghe go to the dominican republic to have one of these calls? i thing thatk that s really intriguing. we ve all talked about the fact that trump should have known that virtue to his prior job, calls kislyak, the russian ambassador made, that the calls were being taped and mad calls he later lied about. something is wrong. we don t know exactly what it is. i isn t the folks in congress have a good idea. mueller certainly knows. one thing we can be certain of is that they haven t given flynn this really magnificent deal just so he could talk about tiddlywinks. whatever it is that trump is talking about, it s someone above him on the food chain and that s a very limited number of players. joyce makes a great point, i