it would seem highly unlikely that the president had no idea. why would trump junior not tell his father? why would jared kushner not tell his father-in-law? this seemed like a pretty significant meeting. you got the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. representative ted lieu there claiming that president trump knew about the trump tower meeting beforehand. one story in a flurry of headlines this week, including the release of cohen s recording of then candidate trump. and the president revoking security clearances from officials. and the trump financial officer was called to testify in the cohen probe. that s in addition to special counsel robert mueller examining the president s tweets for a possible obstruction inquiry plus the secretary of state clashing with senators over vladimir putin. putin inviting the president to moscow. michael avenatti claiming three more women who allegedly had a relationship with donald trump were allegedly paid hush money.
tonight, the feds zeroing in on a man who could know more about donald trump s finances than just about anyone. in a moment i will speak with someone with many unique insights into what s at stake, donald trump s long-time litigator. the wall street journal shows prosecutors are subpoenaing this man as parts of a grand jury probe. allen weisselberg is described as the gate keeper, ivanka trump says he s deeply passionate and extremely loyal. he s stood along our family for over three decades. get to nick akerman with analysis in a minute. but we begin with jay goldberg, the exclusive litigator from 1992 until 2012, and became his adviser, including up to the president. jay, what does it mean that weisselberg is headed to the grand jury? do you mind if i just say that, with respect to paul butler, martha stewart lied
baby, baby, baby. all you can eat is back, baby. applebee s. donald trump has always focused on loyalty. loyalty can be a wonderful thing. we could use some more loyalty, i will tell you that. the news tonight is whether he will be getting loyalty from the man subpoenaed in this cohen
to the president. part of it goes to the portfolio. michael cohen was solving problems as they arose. mr. weissleberg had, to use the parlance, the receipts, he has all the receipts. michael cohen didn t do any classic legal work for donald trump, he was a fixer, in the roy cohn mode. he only came into the organization in 2006. weissleberg and another person, jason greenblatt, were the two pivotal people in the company who knew about finances and dealmaking. the president wouldn t do anything unless the two of them were involved to some extent. this presents a real vulnerability. ultimately it goes to things in the probe that might touch on financial quid pro quos. it goes to whether there are crimes related to money, even
people were you did not find the i did crimes post-it that was run through a shredder. and to be clear there s nothing in here that mentions putin or collusion or anything of that sort pf. jason leopold, great to have you. for more i appreciate it. on the cohen probe i m joined by nbc news investigative reporter tom winter. tom, one of the sort of precipitating incidents that appears in terms of the timing of all this, the end of the joint defense agreement-s a new lawyer, guy petrillo. he s someone who actually worked in the southern district of new york, right? yeah, absolutely, chris. he s a very well-respected attorney, well known in the southern district, somebody who has a significant experience and background both white-collar crime and just overall crime in general. he s somebody who comes from a little bit of a smaller firm but is somebody who s very respected. i just want to briefly touch on that report that you were referring to with abc. this was something