and i want to just remind you, the new york times reported days ago investigators renewed their request for documents from the trump organization from earlier this year. so even after the investigation into michael cohen has come to a close, the organization itself and other people there and the children were obviously there during the campaign and several of them continue to be there is ongoing. i think that s really note worthy. if i were a member of the trump family and worked at the trump organization, i would be concerned. so, michael, with that said, you say that the trump children should consider making deals. why is that? well, i think that they could find themselves not too far into the future being prosecuted or perhaps convicted of something and their father may not be president any longer. so then who would pardon them? there s also the matter of state
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michael dee antonio and tony schwarz, thank you. don t miss full circle. our interactive on facebook. you can get all the details, 6:25 p.m. eastern every night at facebook.com/anderson cooper full circumstance. news continues, want to hand it over to chris, see what he s working on for cuomo primetime. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo. we had late developments today. rod rosenstein may have been kidding about wearing a wire to secretly tape trump after the firing of jim comey, but the acting head of the fbi was dead serious enough to do something potentially far more damaging to the president and we ll tell you what it was and why. and the president s reported choice to replace u.n. ambassador nikki haley is raising eyebrows and making me wonder what the president means when he says only the best. let s get after it. so, deputy a.g. rod
outright fraud. still with us, michael zeldin, steven moore and jennifer rogers. two former prosecutors and an economic expert. that s what i m giving you, steven moore, let me ask you this, this is the question for michael zeldin. you heard steven moore say, it s a $10 billion business he built, he s been audited dozens of times, what do you make of those statements? i have no basis to know whether that s true. nor do i think does steven. so the easiest way too resolve this uncertainty is for the president to release his past ten years of corporate and business tax records so we can understand what is the truth and what is the fiction in this. the other thing is, much of the tax evasion avoidance discussion with respect to the new york times story, would relate to fred trump, the father s tax returns and how these were
is he moving the money the same way? let s bring in the experts, michael zeldin used to investigate exactly these transactions for the government. jennifer and steven. michael let me start with you. legally, i don t see it, statute of limitations maybe on the civil side, fines, when you look at what s in this report by the times, what gives you pause? so you always have to, in these matters, make sure that you understand the difference between lawful tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion. you have to really parse these transactions almost transaction by transaction to see whether or not they were taking advantage of loopholes in the tax code or end running them in terms of legal evasion. what stands out to me the most is the valuations of these