businesses. his party has doled out $1.5 million in legal fees for him on this already. here is my question. now that his kids have been subpoenaed as well, what do you think the odds are that trump is going to figure out how to get the republican party to pay his kids legal fees as well? dad doesn t have to pay his legal fees. republican donors pay for those. but ivanka and don jr. have to pay for their own lawyers? it seems so unfair. what are the odds, right? joining us now is rebecca royfee, former assistant district attorney in the manhattan d.a. s office, now a law school professor. thanks for being here tonight. thanks for having me on, rachel. so those of us non-lawyers who watch these things from the outside think we re all very clever, think we can read the subtleties here, and i know we often get it wrong. it is my common-wisdom, uninformed belief, that when the principals, the highest profile,
elected president. now, prosecutors said he also provided uae officials with sensitive information from inside the trump administration. beyond all of that, he s charged with obstruction of justice and making multiple false statements to the fbi. now, prosecutors told the court that the evidence against barrack is overwhelming and that he poses a serious flight risk. joining us now are nbc news investigations correspondent, tom winter, ken vogel, and new york law school professor and former manhattan assistant district attorney, rebecca royfee. this is just the latest trump ally accused of similar crimes. what more can you tell us about what he s accused of and what it means that you have a foreign country secretly paying a close friend of the former president for influence, allegedly, and the public doesn t know about this financial arrangement? the whole point of the idea of registering as a foreign agent, jeff, is that you do give a heads up to the public and to
assistant district attorney in manhattan in that same office who worked in the very office that is investigating weisselberg and the trump organization. now a law professor at new york law school and she joins me now. rebecca, first just your sort of top line take away from the times reporting today. i think this is a really huge story. you know, there are two possibilities here. one is that, you know, and i think this is probably a pretty off chance and that s that weisselberg is a rogue actor and he s embezzling from the company. and if that s the case then again i think that s probably not the case, but if that s the case then you know he s not loyal to the company. he s not loyal to trump and he would flip in a second. now far more likely that than this is that, look, this is the chief financial officer of this company. and so you know you said in the last segment you were brought up catholic i was brought up jewish. this is like the chief rabbi being caught eating pork. what doe
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that have now gone through. and i think long after donald trump s presidency is over, don mcgahn s work to try to turn conservatives put conservatives on the bench for these lifetime appointments is going to be something that will live on. evan perez, thank you so much. i want to bring in a couple voices here. joining me now, cnn national political reporter mj lee, former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney john loro and former federal prosecutor in new york law school and professor rebecca royfee. does anyone know what is the typical tenure for white house counsel? not very long. not very long, it s a tough job. he hung through the first key 18 months of this white house. the fact is it was 11 days ago when reported out he had cooperated 30 hours plus with team mueller. do you read anything into the timing and the fact that we re also hearing the relationship not so hot. it puts him in a difficult