Agitators, or Anyone But Trump supporters. This guy makes no bones about who was responsible. We were all there. It was not antifa and it was not blm. It was trump supporters that did that yesterday. Im the first to admit it. Being one, myself. So that was anthony, january 7th, a day after the insurrection. And here is part of his live stream on the border, three nights ago during which he interviewed and chatted with House Members lauren boebert. You see her there. Madison cawthorne, chris jacobs, john rose, ronny jackson, and mary miller. The members were there the night before the former president s visit, which they took part in. And as it turns out, so did this guy, agueiro. Here he is posting on instagram. His comment reads, can yall spot me . Lol. Lol. A Kfile Search of court records found the guy has a history of criminal violence, including felonyvehicular assault for which he receive add twoyear prison sentence. Thats who these lawmakers are rubbing elbows and chatting with o
Arraigned at this hour and is expected to plead not guilty. The Trump Organization released a statement about this, saying weisselberg, quote, is being used by the Manhattan District attorney as a pawn in a Scorchedearth Attempt to harm the former president , end quote. Cnns Paula Reed joins us live outside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. These charges could be unsealed at any moment. What will be revealed here . Reporter well, we expect these charges will be related to alleged Tax Crimes stemming from allegations that employees at the Trump Organization received certain perks. Alisyn, we are not talking about free coffee. The allegations are that employees were receiving things like free apartments, free cars, even free school tuition. These are the kinds of benefits that could amount to tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. So we do expect when these charges are unsealed they will be connected to alleged Tax Crimes. Now, an attorney for mr. Weisselberg has made it clear
see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
Bolster what this d.a. clearly thinks is existing available criminal evidence against trump. that is to say, you don t seek this kind of cooperation unless you have reason to believe that the guy knows something that he can provide. this is the new york times report you see there. and bragg, well, he may be trying to turn over every stone or may think that weisselberg still knows things that could add to the aforementioned criminal case against donald trump. less than two months ago trump was indicted and arraigned in new york. here is donald trump walking in the hallway. let s listen to see if he speaks to reporters. it was trump himself in his own voice pleaded not guilty. we now have it. everything we have been talking about. these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.
Doesn t just lie casually or on the campaign trial. he lied in a fraudulent and criminal manner in more than one way. if you create that pattern for the jury it strengthens your case. what do you think about the concern that if mr. weisselberg had his day in court, did his time, out of rikers, that this looks almost heavy-handed or excessive to go back at him? well, i mean, i think that s a real issue. obviously, it would be a different charge. the charge reported is a potential perjury charge. according to the news reports, related to testimony or depg depositions he gave in the inflated financial disclosure civil investigation. so directly relevant. a new charge. you know, i think it s true that usually when do you your time you think the prosecutors are done with you and they are not going to come back for a second bite at the apple. on the other hand, are from their point of view, weisselberg