bank. there are a lot of ties here allen weisselberg would know. a lot to talk about now. gloria borger and john dean and jeffrey toobin. jeff, everybody kind of knows michael cohen. this guy, weisselberg has been there longer and involved in a lot more aspects of the trump organization than michael cohen does. absolutely. he goes back to donald trump s father, how longs he s been with the company. if you were talking about financial crimes, the chief financial officer, which is what he was, is not only the person whose testimony you want but you want to get the records he has access to. white collar cases are almost always made not just on testimony but on financial records. he s the one who will know where all the financial records are. those are the records they will
company about the fact donald trump and michael cohen were in a conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws. that evidence is powerful in implicating trump and cohen in a criminal conspiracy. when you say criminal conspiracy, you re talking about a violation of federal election campaign laws? a potential fraud investigation, other kinds of fraud investigations, the agreement to work and concealing together the potential deception of the government is certainly a violation of campaign finance laws, if proven by other evidence and confirmedsa and implicates allen weisselberg as well. and anything else about the financial dealings involving russia and deutsche bank, acknowledged in fact money laundering for russia. it s also donald trump s main
subpoena and that is the key to any case if there is one. gloria, as jeff said, he s been working for the organization decades and knows more than anyone outside the president s own kids and probably more than the president s own kids. i think he does. he has the trust of donald trump. when donald trump became president, he left the trump organization weisselberg was in charge, along with his own kids. imagine that. that s how much he trusts him. the fact they re interviewing weisselberg as a witness has to make donald trump very nervous. he knows everything. he s the bookkeeper essentially and cohen had to go to him. it should make the president uncomfortable. stormy daniels and his supporters claims was that was something michael cohen did. there was already evidence back then there were connections to
what are your sources telling you about the clout weisselberg has in the organization? reporter: we have been talking those who understand it and there are few people that understand the finances of the company better than this man. he is the man who overseas every dollar that goes in and out of the company and gives trump personal updates to financial matters and as you can guess privy to sensitive information over the years. one employee says the weisselberg subpoena is an ultimate nightmare of donald trump because of how much he knows. allen knows where all the financial bodies are buried and knows every deal and dealership and he knows every sale. he knows every membership, anything you can think of. this person wasn t saying there are any bodies at the trump
in a lawsuit under the constitutional provision that forbids his taking payments and benefits from foreign governments. what we want to know is the entire universe of payments and benefits he received without consent of congress and we re hoping the court will give us the standing to move ahead with that lawsuit, which could be very very important. other lawsuits are going forward as well. as you said, he has never surrendered ownership of the trump organization. what allen weisselberg has to say about the ongoing affairs of that organization can be imputed as the owner. in response to a sympathy to testify, he can be asked anything. he can be asked anything. from there is no limit to what he can be asked about a shell