i d say give it a try. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. another new headline today highlighting donald trump s mounting legal problems. new york attorney general leticia james is investigating trump organization cfo allen weisselberg for criminal charges as to whether he paid taxes on benefits given to him by trump, including cars and tuition for his grandchildren s private school. previously, we knew she had been conducting only a civil investigation, but we re learning of its new focus just a day after the long-running criminal fraud investigation into trump and his businesses run by the manhattan d.a., cy vance, announced it was teaming up, joining forces with the attorney general s office. joining us now, new york times investigative reporter, whose work on trump s tax and business records earned her and her colleagues a pulitzer prize. susanne craig is here.
we re also thrilled she s now an msnbc contributor. thank you so much for being with us today. i have read your tax reporting a couple of times, and i have seen the doc that it inspired, and when michael cohen says the kinds of things that he said last night on joy reid, i m going to play it in a second, i ve always wondered what you ve known all along. his implication is that it s so bad under the hood they re all going to flip on each other. let me play it real quick. we ll talk on the other side. allen weisselberg knew every single dollar in, not even the dollar, every single penny in and every penny out went through allen weisselberg s desk and then reported before and after to donald j. trump. he s going to turn on his accountant and point the finger. he s going to say, don junior handled that, ivanka, melania. he s going to tell them to take everyone except for himself.
even ivanka? that s just the kind of guy he is. everyone. ivanka too. wow. it s so shocking, but i think what people have to keep in mind, that whatever they think of michael cohen, he did work inside what was a relatively small family office. what do you think of that? well, i think if history is any indicator of this, and we ve seen donald trump do it before, he often says, you know, i relied on advice of counsel. somebody else did it. i don t know anything about it. somebody gets into trouble, one of his advisors gets into trouble, all of a sudden he doesn t really know their name or who they are. so i think that there s a potentially predictable storyline going forward on it. you know, they ve been working allen weisselberg, of course, he s the chief financial officer at the trump organization and they ve been trying to work with him first as a cooperating witness to get him to talk and it seems now the tide has maybe changed on that so they re going to be working from th