the southern district in attempts to interfere with its criminal investigation of the trump enterprise, the trump organization, but also, frankly, this is a ground for congressional inquiry, since this sort of abuse of power, this sort of violation of the independence of the department of justice in a case involving his very own conduct is precisely the sort of authoritarian impeachment process was intended to stand as a bullwork against. so am i hearing that this could potentially be an impeachable offense? well, it s of a peace with the activity that led to the impeachment proceedings against nixon and led to the impeachment proceedings against clinton. it s a little early to say for sure. but the fact are, since we, mr. whitaker sort of denied this, but if the facts prove
what we learn about trump oerg and t org and the manifest at the top of it. he doesn t seem savvy deft maneuverer. he and michael cohen, weisselberg, around the trump enterprise, are steeped in how you futz with the legal structures, to hide money inflows, hide expenses, to move money around and that s a particular set of skills that not only that, but to sell the myth of yourself in order to make more money. remember the whole premise of the apprentice is he was a successful businessman, which is fundamentally not true. donald trump drew a paycheck like you and i do. he had a w-2 form. as everyone knows or me e. there is no billionaire who needs a w-2 who draws a salary because he was playing the role of a successful businessman. that s part of the grift he knew how to do. there s two ways of looking at that.
determine whether its payments were proper. there s no policy, just so you understand, weisselberg said. that is as smoking gun as you could ask for in the investigation of a charity like this. that s right. weisselberg was really interesting. the deposition they got from him showed him how lax, even your expectations for a trump enterprise, how lax they were at the foundation. he had no idea he was on the board of the foundation. it turned out that the board of the foundation, which included ivanka trump, eric trump and donald trump, jr., all supposed to be sort of looking out for the financial interests of the foundation, overseeing its money, making sure it wasn t mismanaged. that board hadn t actually met since 1999. and, tim o brien, i know that you have registered absolutely
financial machinations, and the lawsuit makes it clear that it was. david, some extraordinary reporting you have today about this. you say, state investigators asked weisselberg, who is the chief financial officer of all things trump and apparently was a member of the board of the foundation, what the foundation s policies were to determine whether its payments were proper. there s no policy, just so you understand, weisselberg said. that is as smoking gun as you could ask for in the investigation of a charity like this. that s right. weisselberg was really interesting. the deposition they got from him showed him how lax, even your expectations for a trump enterprise, how lax they were at the foundation. he had no idea he was on the board of the foundation. it turned out that the board of the foundation, which included ivanka trump, eric trump and donald trump, jr., all supposed
states. as you say, it s one thing to lie to the media. michael cohen was not that critical. he has been critical and called a coffee boy, but critical in the family business which involves other people aside from donald trump. that involves issues of confidence for other members of the family and conundrums. this expanded far beyond the investigation of the campaign and now the entire trump enterprise. is it knowing that the candidate and the faux of the united states. they can put forth the u.s.,