weave hea we ve heard that a lot today. he s very in control of trump s finances now that trump is president. he could know important things for the grand jury and mueller s investigation, for example, if he is actually cooperating with them and sharing information with them as well. i don t know if you ve ever had a chance to interview weisselberg. i did. what did you glean from him as a personality, the way he functioned within that world? was he meticulous, did he come across as the person who would be extremely loyal to president trump? why would you think he would seek immunity? i don t want to suggest we were bffs, but what i did my impressions and my recollections when i did interview him when i was doing my book, he came he worked for fred first, for donald s father, so he was a continuity from the earlier version of the trump organization under his father. and donald trump, we have to remember, the big influences on him, school of fred, that was one of them. so thi
damascus, our frederic pleitgen. right now the u.n. is in syria, investigating a separate chemical attack that happened earlier in year. i ll go to fred first. fred, mccain says it would be easy to intervene without even putting u.s. boots on the ground in syria. you re there, do you agree? logistically, what are the problems, what are the dangers? well, it certainly would be dependent on what sort of thing would have to happen for that intervention to actually come through. what does the u.s. actually want to achieve with intervention here in syria? do they want to even out the battlefield or take out the assad regime. certainly, if you don t put boots on the ground, simply a no-fly zone or something like that probably wouldn t even even out the battlefield. one of the things we have to keep in mind is that this is a very well-organized army that bashar al assad have. they have tanks, they have armored personnel carriers, they have a lot of people and hezbollah fighting on their sid