About their loved ones, Heart Wrenching and much needed. We need to hear about the lives of the folks. But i have some breaking Handoff News i want to talk to you about because youre an attorney. Talk to me about whats happening with weisselberg and the trump four. Because supposedly this is over Tax Crimes in connection with an array of perks and benefits awarded to employees. Right. So weisselberg is supposedly charged now, indicted, i should say, and the Trump Organization. What gives . Whats going on . Indicted, charged, same thing. Hes in the same position. Hes supposed to surrender himself tomorrow our reporting. Heres the Bad News for trump people, okay. Weve never seen a former president connected to this kind of criminal prosecution. This is his company, it was just indicted for alleged criminal behavior. More troubling is, the man that they have fingered for this, we weisselberg, now is in a jam because the only way out of it, he obviously couldnt convince them that they had
Kareem abduljabbar standing by to discuss this landmark ruling. Welcome. Im Wolf Blitzer, and youre in the Situation Room. Lets begin with the biden agenda. Truly at a Cross Roads right now. Kaitlyn collins is covering it all for us. Some truly important negotiations are happening right now. Update our viewers. What can you tell us . Yeah, wolf. This is between the group of bipartisan senators behind this latest Infrastructure Proposal that is circulating around capitol hill. They are meeting Behind Closed Doors right now as we speak. And of course they are still in disagreement with the White House over one major aspect of this bill, which is how to pay for it. It is also a blueprint that is pinning the more moderate democrats in their party against the more liberal wing of the democratic party. It is the start of a Kricritica Week for President Bidens agenda. The White House is facing a new Hurdle Tonight on infrastructure as a new bipartisan agreement is coming under fire from progr
About their loved ones, heart wrenching and much needed. we need to hear about the lives of the folks. but i have some breaking handoff news i want to talk to you about because you re an attorney. talk to me about what s happening with weisselberg and the trump four. because supposedly this is over tax crimes in connection with an array of perks and benefits awarded to employees. right. so weisselberg is supposedly charged now, indicted, i should say, and the trump organization. what gives? what s going on? indicted, charged, same thing. he s in the same position. he s supposed to surrender himself tomorrow our reporting. here s the bad news for trump people, okay. we ve never seen a former president connected to this kind of criminal prosecution. this is his company, it was just indicted for alleged criminal behavior. more troubling is, the man that they have fingered for this, we weisselberg, now is in a jam because the only way out of it,
He obviously couldn t convince them that they had the wrong guy or it wasn t worth what they think, he may be able to convince a jury otherwise. but if these benefits, ill gotten gains, as prosecutors will call them, extended to his kids, and they can say to him, we re going to charge your kids, mr. weisselberg, and you re going to go away and so might they, unless somebody else knew. somebody told you do this. then you need to tell us. that can be very powerful medicine. what s the minus? any day in prison is a bad day, don t get me wrong. but these are not heavyweight charges. that s where i was going. aren t they going to say that most companies, most people do this, it s not a chargeable offense, why are you charging the former president s company and the person who ran or signed the checks? are you treating him any differently than you would treat anyone else if you look at any
Usual. thank you very much. let s get analysis from the state attorney for palm beach county down in florida. thanks for joining us. how happy should former president trump be that we weisselberg is still showing up at his office at trump tower in manhattan? yeah, that was a birthday present for donald trump. right now it easy for allen weisselberg to play hard to get with state prosecutors in manhattan. he hasn t been charged with any crimes yet but that could change. he better not over play his hand. you re dealing with a district attorney in cyrus vance junior who is retiring and this is his legacy issue. he wants decisions before he leaves office. he s determined because he wants to go get trump s taxes twice before the u.s. supreme court. this is a three-year investigation and so if you re allen weisselberg, be careful because this office is taking it seriously and you don t want to reject the authors or