the russians did begin hacking clinton s servers right after the president s call later that same day. meantime the president s former lawyer, michael cohen testified before the house intelligence committee who is going to do it again this week for a second time. this comes as former new jersey governor and federal prosecutor chris christie says mr. cohen could help another investigation into the president, one led by the federal prosecutors of manhattan at the southern district of new york who are apparently are investigating possible campaign finance violations and dealings in the trump business empire. these guys of the southern district can look at anything. they have two tour guides now, guys. they have michael cohen and rick gates. nobody wants their lawyer and the former executive director of their inaugural cooperating with the government even if you did nothing wrong because they are incenti incentiveized to do it. a criminal defense attorney is joining us. also former sen
we ll get that to you as soon as it comes in. irregularities and about a donor to his committee. this new york times report which all of us have now read sug jges that the u.s. attorney now going directly after the trump business empire that michael cohen as a lawyer and fixer has already been questioned. right. i think this once again reveals why individuals close to the president are so concerned about the southern district. they believe they it might represent more. they don t have any kind of
there are not too many people who fit on that list and a major player in the company and here is what donny deutsch explained to me. this is just the tip of the iceberg. the trump business empire is going to be picked apart for the next 20 years. that s built as a criminal enterprise. that s a man who knows what cohen knows. the meeting with russians that trump jr. organized and paul manafort organized. we don t know what will be publicly released. we can see a lot of redactions. we know that mueller asked trump about the project that is a presidential level question and that was related to the meeting at trump tower. that is all out there.
about the mueller investigation are, number one, exactly what evidence on all of these fronts the mueller team has obtained, and number two, the exact timing of when this investigation will be wrapped up. we do know one big thing for sure, and that is that a lot of people close to the trump business empire and close to the trump campaign have been cooperating with the mueller team for a long time. it s possible that none of that cooperation is leading to indictable evidence, but it s extremely unlikely in my view that that would be the case. in my experience as a federal prosecutor, this number of cooperators, cooperating for this period of time, means that there s a lot there, and of course with respect to flynn, whatever communications or contacts the trump campaign was having with russia, it appears that flynn was right in the middle of that, so this latest development with flynn should be very interesting.
lots of connections. we don t know about trump, deutsche bank and russia, all three. there s also a couple of cases in state court that relate to different pieces of the president s business empire that may end up exposing some of it. one of them is looking at the trump hotiel in d.c. and whethe it violates the emoluments clause. what risk is there for the president in that case? there s a couple of cases looking at emoluments. that s sort of a 1700s term for payments from foreign governments. emoluments through the trump hotel in d.c. from foreign governments. so there s two lawsuits looking at that. and what they aim to find, at least in the short term, is they want to get discovery. look inside the files of trump s hotel and figure out which foreign governments have been paying for hotel rooms and paying for ballrooms. we know some there have been some foreign customers. the saudis paid a lot of money. bahrain. the philippines had a big national day celebration at the hotel. w