pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry. mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. trump has been prolific in his attacks on both sessions and comey on twitter and in public comments and that s just the start of it. the times notes the president s written and verbal criticisms and actions could be woven together. the wall street journal reporting that the trump organization s chief financial officer allen weisselburg has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in new york in the michael cohen investigation. in the name sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because we heard his name earlier this week. i ve spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up
new york. can you speak to that possible strategy. when you look right now at michael cohen s legal situation he s not been contacted by mueller that we can report at the moment. his path ahead is challenging. his offices and hotel room have been raided. the southern district of new york is looking into his business dealings. now you have this float of information to different sources tonight that he has more information about president trump s activity and contact conduct and a candidate. whether he is looking for a pardon or looking to cooperate with federal investigators. there s a debate inside of cohen s orb about whether he is making smart moves at this moment if he is trying to save himself legally. all right counsel man, what would be the legal implications of learning that the president knew in advance about this meeting? the crime involved here would be there s a campaign finance law that says you can t accept aid from a foreign government during the campaign.
it s a lot. we ll get through it. we re tracking the news on the robert mueller investigation. sources saying that michael cohen asserts president trump was told in advance about that 2016 meeting at trump tower. he was told about it by his son don junior and that michael cohen is willing and ready to make that assertion to robert mueller. earlier tonight president trump s lawyer appeared on cnn where this story first broke and said cohen is not a credible witness. there s no doubt he s kre credible. this is the kind of witness that can destroy your whole case. any finder of fact loses confidence when you rely on a guy like this. before you re finished you ll have such a string of laws you can t trust him. you put him in this kind of pressure, what s his history
michael cohen s legal situation he s not been contacted by mueller that we can report at the moment. his path ahead is challenging. his offices and hotel room have been raided. the southern district of new york is looking into his business dealings. now you have this float of information to different sources tonight that he has more information about president trump s activity and contact conduct and a candidate. whether he is looking for a pardon or looking to cooperate with federal investigators. there s a debate inside of cohen s orb about whether he is making smart moves at this moment if he is trying to save himself legally. all right counsel man, what would be the legal implications of learning that the president knew in advance about this meeting? the crime involved here would be there s a campaign finance law that says you can t accept aid from a foreign government during the campaign. under that law is not a criminal violation unless you act willfully which means you knew
saul, is ignorance any defense? we had a ton of people come on this broadcast and say people came up traditionally through politics. say i would have called fbi right away if i had known about this, anything about this meeting. we re talking about an administration of political neophytes. they didn t come up through the classic channel. would ignorance of their obligation to notify the fbi be any defense in hindsight? they don t have an obligation to notify the fbi. your question is general ignorance of the law is no excuse. there are exceptions to this and this campaign finance law is one of those exceptions. there s one person in that meeting who was not a neophyte and that s paul manafort. all the others were. president trump during the