this because in the past they have declined to investigate president trump and his family? indeed, cy vance shut down what s a very promising investigation against donald s two oldest children, ivanka and donald junior. so it is a good sign that he s serious about this case. i wonder where s the state attorney general in this case, because she ran for office saying she was going to be very aggressive about trump and the tax returns. and the fact that she s going back to 2010 or 11, depending on how the subpoenas are worded, indicates this is a much broader scope than just hush money payments that were made to two women. if the president s accounting firm is saying that they will comply with any legal thing that they re supposed to, does that mean that the trump organization do they have any power over the accounting firm to stop them? well, that s what s going to have to be determined by a court. the accounting firm understandably is being cautious here. they re not going to t
the records until donald trump and his attorneys have the opportunity to go to court. but the same issue has come up in washington when congress is trying to get the tax returns from the accountants as well as from the internal revenue servi service. the accounting firm is saying, look, we re going to abide by a court decision, but you have to tell us what to do. we re not you, the judge, not simply rely on the subpoena. david, what do you make of the fact that the d.a. is asking for the past eight years of returns, i think, as you said, going back to 2011? why do you think that date? well, there have been a lot of questions throughout donald s career about whether he was laundering money for people. i and other people have taken apart some business transactions he did that make no sense from a normal business perspective but would make a lot of sense if you were helping someone illicitly move money around.
suppose, in this administration, during that campaign, that i think you can see that. you look at some of the great reporting by the new york times on the june 2016 trump tower meeting where first said, no, we didn t know anything about it, then later it emerges that oh, by the way, yeah, we did. i think that sort of thing is happening here right where the story s changing and it s slowly changing over time. well, we didn t have anything to do with it, and then it s, well, the negotiations ended in january, and then, oh, bunch of different documents and, yeah, they were negotiating through june and now, you know, we re beginning to learn that the family, or at least the president and ivanka and donald junior, were read in, right, they knew, they knew it was happening, they knew it was going on. they were aware of the progress here. the story keeps changing could be the tagline of this administration. the there was a piece in your story that caught my attention, and that was that
thing that emerges, a pattern, i suppose, in this administration, during that campaign, that i think you can see that. you look at some of the great reporting by the new york times on the june 2016 trump tower meeting where first said, no, we didn t know anything about it, then later it emerges that oh, by the way, yeah, we did. i think that sort of thing is happening here right where the story s changing and it s slowly changing over time. well, we didn t have anything to do with it, and then it s, well, the negotiations ended in january, and then, oh, bunch of different documents and, yeah, they were negotiating through june and now, you know, we re beginning to learn that the family, or at least the president and ivanka and donald junior, were read in, right, they knew, they knew it was happening, they knew it was going on. they were aware of the progress here. the story keeps changing could be the tag line of this administration. the there was a piece in your story that caugh
president and ivanka and donald junior, were read in, right, they knew, they knew it was happening, they knew it was going on. they were aware of the progress here. the story keeps changing could be the tagline of this administration. the there was a piece in your story that caught my attention, and that was that michael cohen appeared to be negotiating progress toward a face-to-face meeting in russia between donald trump and vladimir putin that was supposed to take place after the july 2016 republican national convention. right. he told him, quote, make it happen. this was we previously published details of text