hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
times where he was going after his own political appointees. his favorite target was rod rosensteen. his chief deputy spent a lot of time on capitol hill dealing with this exact makeup of house republicans trying to keep jim jordan from voting to impeach rosensteen. this is partisan, of course, because of the fact the administration is in the hands of a democratic president but this is also in aversion to the rule of law. what does that say to you? yeah, it s an aversion to truth and wray was appointed to donald trump anytime anyone crosses party lines and does something as a government official that might suggest a republican is engaged in wrong doing, then trump screams
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reckoning to go along with that for the person who makes the firing decision. what do you mean by that to? i think for had were a lot of outrage if he was fired on a whim. rosensteen has said he s the one who hired him and he can fire him but he won t unless there s just cause. i think the investigation continues. it was going on in the eastern district of virginia. i think it would continue. the question is under whose jurisdingz? if it justice department hierarchy, rod rosensteen was persuaded that the whole investigation was bunk. he could end it, iffee wanted to, right? he could end the investigation. the deputy aturny general could end the investigation to end, i suppose. but i don t think that s not
the hyperbole that i have not given. i don t believe he was fired simly because he was abusing his power last year. i think the curious dates are when did rosensteen take office and when did he testify again and talk about six days ago. it is relevant in terms of what i think they ll come out as giving the comprehensive basis for why he was irfooed. i think they were looking for a reason and he gave them one because he was ignorant to the fact he was no longer honoring his role and i ll paraphrasing rsh but swub to put on a cape.