and the special counsel regulations for this prerogative to the attorney general, at the end of the day, the attorney general has the right to know what recommendations are being made, and to refuse them. he also has the right to preview any report that the special counsel wants to release to congress. so, it doesn t remove merrick garland entirely from the chain of command. what it really does is pin others who ve been within the circle of who needs to know so far from this sphere of day to day management of this case. and to that extent, that it may be helpful with the american public, in believing that this is a true and nonpartisan investigation as it possibly can be at this point. and i think this is also a time where a lot of americans are looking at the past, right? they re looking at mueller to see what could happen, former mueller prosecutor andrew weizmann brought up this week, advising special counsel jack smith, on what to learn from the mueller probe. what do you hope ja
Andrew Weissmann Warns Donald Trump Will Destroy Rule of Law
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He said investigators were likely focused on the possible falsification of business records.
New York AG Letitia James this week announced a criminal investigation into the company.
Andrew Weissmann, who served as a top prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller s Russia investigation, has said that authorities probing the Trump Organization are likely focusing on whether business records were falsified.
In an Wednesday interview with MSNBC s Lawrence O Donnell, Weissmann discussed the Tuesday announcement by the New York attorney general s office that its investigation into former President Donald Trump s businesses was now criminal in nature.
The interview also followed reports that the New York attorney general had opened a criminal tax investigation into Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
devastating testimony. nicolle, to your point, one of the oddest potential defenses that kept being floated today in the line of republican questioning and even sondland at time gesturing at it was, well, we didn t know what investigations meant and whether you could you ve miez investigations. the president walked out on the south lawn and was asked what was your goal? and he says i was hoping the ukraine would do a major investigation of the bidens. the son and the father. the potential rival, the potential nominee. he said it. and then he puts out the contemporaneous call notes, which are not a full transcript. wait. wait. wait. he also says but let s i mean, i think we also gloss what are investigations? investigations are the 2020 version of what russia did in 2016. it s cheating. and that s the political that s the political context. and i know that mr. weissman can t speak to all of this today as a former mueller prosecutor. but i m over here and i can. in 2016, righ