News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Personal purposes. On the other hand, if it came out of a Donald Trump Trust fund, which i understand weisselberg also manages, it might not be any kind of a financial tax crime. So hes somebody who has very, very Important Information which could be helpful to the prosecutors. Not only in the cohen case but if they want to dig deeper into the Trump Organization. And weisselbergs cooperation seems to be limited to the cohen probe. What would prosecutors need to call weisselberg back and ask him to provide information about other potential crimes . Well, i think you know, what always happens in these federal investigations, and we saw it in the manafort case, when they start looking at a particular issue, sometimes they stumble across other things that turn out to be criminal in nature. Thats, i think, one of the reasons why the president is probably as upset as he has been sounding this week. Once they start looking into the
where this leads. trump had some key employees that he treated like family, that knew everything. this is one of them. there s a couple others. there s no one really who has more potentially damaging information. we ll have to leave it there. coming up, we ll have an update on the health of senator john mccain. stay with us. baby boomers, here s something you should know. there s a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don t even know it. a virus that s been almost forgotten. it s hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer. the only way to know if you have hep c is to ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us, it s time to get tested. it s the only way to know for sure.
cabinet or acting attorney general rod rosenstein, who might even be worse than sessions in president trump s mind. for the first time yesterday, lindsey graham came forward and said, this isn t a sustainable situation. we re open to confirming somebody else after the midterms. and chuck grassley, the current chairman of the judiciary committee who runs the schedule about confirmation hearings for new attorney generals, echoed that. bob corker said this is pretty much inevitable after the midterms. so the wall of support sessions has had among his former colleagues on capitol hill seems to be crumbling, and republicans on the hill view it as an ine inevitability. jeff sessions has been opposing this criminal justice reform that chuck grassley wants really badly. and chuck grassley is mad. he thinks he got sessions confirmed, he s helped protect him, and sessions is still in the way of his major legislative initiative. i think there s some of that
clearly the president, who had drawn a sort of bright line around his businesses, is now seeing that being the center of something that could be a pandora s box for him. i think paul made a really important point about trump. allen weisselberg is currently in a position in the trump organization. he s the person in charge when trump stepped away from his businesses and became president, he put his sons and allen in charge of his businesses. now the question is, what happens now? how does this upend trump world, an organization that s currently still, you know, chugging along without the president? i think it really raises a lot of questions going forward about the future for allen in that organization. right. and the president famously i mean, you talked about this red line and what he would do, president trump saying this would be a red line. here he is talking to the new york times. mueller was looking at your finances, your family s finances unrelated to russia. is that a re
with feds. he s handled trump organization finances, prepared trump s tax returns, managed trump s private trust, as you said, abby, treasurer of trump s charity, and he s also a miss universe pageant board member. i mean, this is the person who knows pretty much everything there is to know about the financial part of donald trump s life. even also the private part of donald trump s life. there is a nexus between those two things. the fact we re talking about hush money payments, that s about alleged affairs the president had. there s a big universe of things he could know. you brought up tax returns. we haven t seen the president s tax returns. that remains one of the things that the president has held so closely. it just reveals i think weisselberg holds the key to a lot of that, but this breaking up of trump s inner sanctum is