Central steam and special coverage of Donald Trumps Criminal Trial continues now and you are looking a lot pictures down inside 100 Centre Street behind me today, we expect to drama filled de, with important stakes for megarian, go a long way in determining of donald from gets convicted in ten days, 16 of trial right now, the former prisoners motorcade is on route to the courthouse. Once trump arrives in, court gets underway here, we expect the people to call the man whose evolve from protector to trump pariah, To Trump Prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Im interested. Cooper, new york. And then im jake tapper in y shoots and uci and you are wanting special cnn live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial Today the man who bent the truth and broke the law for his his former boss, the former president goes on the stand. Michael dean cohen the former trump fixer and lawyer whose imposed trumps will on whatever he could bullying dealing and lawyering his way into getting trump
Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
organization for more than a decade. not somebody who could say i barely knew him. nbc investigative reporter tom winter joins me now. so why are investigators now zeroing in, tom, on these specific loans? we saw this and we were talking in the break about the manafort trial. this is similar. when you talk to a bank and present yourself for a loan, you can t misstate the assets or income that you have. so according to the new york times reporting, it appears that michael cohen may have to two new york city area bank, may have represented the assets that he actually had when he went to get loans for his taxicab medallion business. if michael cohen s paying those on time, did he really defraud the bank? but either way it appears there s so many sort of issue with cohen s paperwork. that is typically bank fraud. that might be something that will be wrapped up and considered in any potential charges that could be brought. so these charge in and of themselves obviously could send him
things. taxicab medallion business, possibilities of bank fraud. items pertaining to stormy daniels or karen mcdougal, payments thereof, campaign finance. what would this search warrant look like and could it applausely have a variety of different areas listed together? what we do know is a judge made a finding of probable cause that evidence of a crime would be found at these premises. you have to articulate what the crime is and the facts in support of that probable cause determination. they d have to specify. i imagine that in robert mueller s investigation he has come across some evidence that supports this finding of probable cause. he would have to articulate those things. it could list several different schemes. there could be the taxi medallion scheme and another relating to stormy daniels. it could be a number of things in the same affidavit. it s just probable cause. this is not a charge, not an indictment and it s not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
feds were or were not looking for in the case of michael cohen yesterday. we ve seen a bunch of different things. taxicab medallion business, possibilities of bank fraud. items pertaining to stormy daniels or karen mcdougal, payments thereof, campaign finance. what would this search warrant look like and could it applausely have a variety of different areas listed together? what we do know is a judge made a finding of probable cause that evidence of a crime would be found at these premises. you have to articulate what the crime is and the facts in support of that probable cause determination. they d have to specify. i imagine that in robert mueller s investigation he has come across some evidence that supports this finding of probable cause. he would have to articulate those things. it could list several different schemes. there could be the taxi medallion scheme and another relating to stormy daniels. it could be a number of things in the same affidavit. it s just probable cause.