hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
Learned special counsel earlier today off the record concerns about the buzzfeed story and clearly those concerns are serious enough to prop special counsel to go on the record tonights aching, buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michaels congressional testimony are not accurate. That is critical because buzzfeed literally laid this out the door of the special counsel stating special office learned about trumps directive to lie to congress through interviews of multiple witnesses from the d internal company emails, Text Messages and a cache of other documents. One of the other wrote never saw the documents but special counsel is the one who brought this to Michael Cohen, listen. It is hard because they did this to him and asking questions based off of it. Then he acknowledged in the interview, yes, indeed i was directed by the president. Tonight buzzfeed is standing
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