reporter: now to new york state that has subpoenaed mike cohen on the heels of his guilty plea. the subpoena is part of the relation into the trump foundation. it comes after cohen s attorney, lanny davis, claimed that his client had information that federal and state investigators would like to know. the attorney general of new york is currently suing the trump foundation, claiming donald trump illegally used his foundation to settle legal disputes, help his campaign for president and pay for personal and business expenses. when the lawsuit was announced in june, the president vowed not to settle the case. the current investigation is being conducted by new york s tax department and could be referred to the attorney general for prosecution. now, it is important to note the president does not have the power to pardon in state cases. white house counsel don mcgahn was the campaign finance lawyer for the 2016 trump operation, and the report in bloomberg says trump did not consult wi
Of what olc would recommend and the question comes down to what would people like anthony kennedy and jobt decembhn rober? this is a question that would go to the supreme court. you look at those two as likely being the deciding votes to say whether the president has this power or not. in addition to that, indira, you have don mcgahn, the white house counsel who didn t do so well in counseling donald trump to get michael flynn out. he s never worked in a presidential administration, his experience and his bent is about dismantling bureaucracy, he served on the fec, he s more of a campaign finance lawyer, a deeply libertarian person. what is the thinking about what kind of counsel he might give donald trump about whether to try pardoning himself? i think the question here joie is what we ve been talking about that the president is doing things that are unprecedented. the fact that nobody has pardoned himself before or even considered perhaps pardoning
This second additional line of credit between half a million and a million dollars that was opened up just last year. and the really surprising thing about it, there s so many aspects of this, is gingrich thought that he wouldn t have to report this. that because he paid the debt off, and we don t know exactly when he did so, that he wouldn t have to report it on his campaign personal financial disclosure that all presidential candidates have to file and then he was informed by his campaign finance lawyer not the case, it s a liability, even if it s been paid off. he had it during the year in question that he s filing the financial disclosure form and it was going to have to be reported. i was told today by one of the advisers to gingrich that this was a shock to the gingriches. they never imagined they were going to have to make this public. and more importantly, the campaign staff knew they were going to have a whole other wave of stories at the end of july when this when the finan
Aspects of this, is gingrich thought that he wouldn t have to report this. that because he paid the debt off, and we don t know exactly when he did so, that he wouldn t have to report it on his campaign personal financial disclosure that all presidential candidates have to file and then he was informed by his campaign finance lawyer not the case, it s a liability, even if it s been paid off. he had it during the year in question that he s filing the financial disclosure form and it was going to have to be reported. i was told today by one of the advisers to gingrich that this was a shock to the gingriches. they never imagined they were going to have to make this public. and more importantly, the campaign staff knew they were going to have a whole other wave of stories at the end of july when this when the financial disclosure was formed and that was one of the things that led to the massive resignations, 16 top advisers resigned. i want to look at that moment. it s very odd to me
Thought that he wouldn t have to report this. that because he paid the debt off, and we don t know exactly when he did so, that he wouldn t have to report it on his campaign personal financial disclosure that all presidential candidates have to file and then he was informed by his campaign finance lawyer not the case, it s a liability, even if it s been paid off. he had it during the year in question that he s filing the financial disclosure form and it was going to have to be reported. i was told today by one of the advisers to gingrich that this was a shock to the gingriches. they never imagined they were going to have to make this public. and more importantly, the campaign staff knew they were going to have a whole other wave of stories at the end of july when this when the financial disclosure was formed and that was one of the things that led to the massive resignations, 16 top advisers resigned. i want to look at that