amount of resources, then that is a pretty weak outcome if this is all they have. so that is one of the big questions going forward. i know this is just supposed to be three questions, i ll i ll ask you a fourth. is the main reason that they need weisselberg my understanding is because trump doesn t email, right? he doesn t text. and so how else are you going to prove intent here without weisselberg. exactly. as a prosecutor, you can t just say he was the boss so hence he is guilty. you have to prove that he knew about it and had the intent. if you couldn t have emails, you don t have texts, no evidence of a wiretap or anything, then you need a witness who can say, yes, he authorized this transaction, he authorized this scheme. doesn t appear that they have that bowithout weisselberg. all right, it will be a big day. i m ready to go. next step in the congressional investigation of the capitol riot now this the hands of house speaker nancy
now, when it comes to the potential crime of fraud, they re going to need documents. they are going to need witnesses. and we know the former president. he doesn t leave much of a paper trail. he doesn t e-mail. he doesn t text. so, witnesses are going to be key. and all eyes are on the trump organization s longtime cfo, allen weisselberg. he s exactly the kind of person, who could, if he wanted to cooperate, give investigators the kind of insights that they need. he is, also, currently, facing his own tax investigation, which could apply pressure on him. and really incentivize him to cooperate. so, all eyes on him, right now. so, paula, talk to me about the timing here of this. how quickly could this move? so we know this grand jury s been impaneled for about-six months. that can be extended. but we, also, know the manhattan district attorney s term lasts just a little bit longer than that. so right now, base on the information that we have, we are looking about until the end of t
airplane when president trump dictated the response to that trump tower meeting. to your point, rona, hope, they are trump s version of the e-mails. because he doesn t e-mail. he doesn t text. these are people who stand around him and are the closest thing to, if they keep notes or you can track, they say the president or the candidate wants to talk to someone, they write it down, those those notes are the closest to trump e-mail. there is no e-mail. that s a great point. keith schiller his body guard he traveled with executive trump to rmpblt he s familiar with the hush money payments and the women trump was surrounded by. there are a lot of those quote/unquote gate keepers around president trump that aren t affiliateing with his campaign and could be damaging to him. you mentioned eleanor a former trump executive that worked with these people discussed some of that on the beat on friday. take a look. do you think that there are other hush money payments that he may know abo
it s getting worse as this thing goes on longer and causes more real human pain. that doesn t mean, though, that any of us know when it will end. certainly the politics of this are only going to get worse for those who are trying to sustain it and not better, but, again, we don t know how long they decide that they re going to keep this going. outside of the ongoing standoff for the shutdown, there were a few surprises in the news today related to the scandals swirling around this president. turns out this presidency. turns out that stuff doesn t doesn t stop for the shutdown. emily jane fox is going to be here in just a moment from vanity fair to talk about one of those surprises that concerns the president s longtime personal lawyer michael cohen. emily jane has some new important reporting on that story tonight, specifically about president trump potentially having some new criminal liability from yet another campaign-related revelations ala michael cohen. so emily jane fox is
before saying he doesn t think it from mueller s team. i d be curious to think what else that could encompass. and the second is the very critical paragraph, because it talks about e-mails and text messages. i know from my own reporting president trump doesn t use e-mail, he doesn t text. it s one of the things that helps him most in all of this. i d be curious to know and i m sure we all are, what that e-ma e-mail traffic involves. is it the children discussing things with others? john mentioned alan weiselberg. i know he s talk to the southern district of new york but i don t have any evidence that weis weiselberg has stopoken to mueller. we also have to factor in the