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They took a run at allen weisselberg, and without his cooperation, and without the cooperation of the small company, the cfo who is the person who controls all of the accounting, the financial measures, there is really no one else who has as much information as he does, and once he did not cooperate, there is not really anywhere else to go, so they put in the charges now, and i would not expect him to cooperate if grand larceny in the second degree for $1.7 million is the top charge. >> everyone...

Same sort of ideology and incompetence that characterize the carter regime characterizes now the biden-harris regime and it took jimmy carter to give us ronald reagan. i think joe biden is setting up for this country to move dramatically back in the direction of fiscal sanity, back in the direction of the constitution and the bill of rights. >> jesse: when you marry incompetence with ideology, its a disaster every time. and im curious now to see was going to be the next reagan out of this. could...

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Earlier decision that prosecutors do not have the power to grant pardons, to grant immunity or to make this kind of deal. and castors credibility has been called into question by three of the seven justices and the trial court who saw him. its such an unusual decision. >> youre getting a lot of calls from your clients not involved with allegations with bill cosby. be interest field goal this does end up at the supreme court. always good to see you. thanks for coming in this morning. >> thank you...

Think he did something illegal. >> andrew, does today feel like chapter one or the grand finale? >> chapter one. >> oh. >> to me, this harkens back to the issue that we had when we were doing the enron investigation. in order to get to the show called c suite of jeff skilling and ken lay, we also had the problem of their not using emails and needing to have witnesses who were in the room with them. and what that took was charging, and then flipping, andrew fasto, who was the cfo. and that eventu...

This investigation that theyre allegedly cooking the books and that theyve been doing it for decades, and that weisselberg -- why is weisselberg the one thats there and the other guys arent? because he was the boss. hes the cfo. hes the one in charge of the books. and then the bosss boss is the fact that allegedly he was going into talk to trump every single day, that they were talking constantly, and how much of this did trump know and when did he know it. >> yeah, tristan, pardon me. >> thats ...

True. what you have right now is alan weisselbergs head on the chopping block. do you think that donald trump will protect him? if alan looks back at what happened to me, the answer is an emphatic no. hes going to pay the legal bills up until he gets tired of paying the legal bills because its too much money, why am i paying for everybodys bills and then hes going to cut him off. its no different than what he did to me. first they bring you in, they hug you, they tell you everythings going to be...

President donald trump, and going after somebody like the chief financial officer allen weisselberg who is somebody who knew the organization, and as you said an expert on documents and data or at least is supposed to be, what is the connection between the cfo and the person usually above him when it comes to the charges that we are hearing? >> for me? >> yes, ari. >> the connection there is did you go rogue? did you do this by yourself or were you acting on behalf of the company? because we hav...

C.f.o. the tax charges against allen weisselberg are related to company payments on apartments, cars, and even private school tuition. a key witness, weisselbergs estranged former daughter-in- law, who turned over several boxes of documents. while mr. trump is the face of the company, weisselberg has operated behind the scenes not only as a c.f.o. the former taxicab driver has also been the trump familys personal bookkeeper. in 2019, michael cohen, the presidents former personal attorney, testif...

By the district attorney cy vance. hed been hoping to flip mr weisselberg, so that hed work with prosecutors, but the trump cfo is having none of it. and a statement from the trump 0rganization spat defiance over the treatment of mr weisselberg. .. after a short hearing, he left court charged with fraud, charged with giving perks to trump executives and family members that were never declared. 0n the face of it, these charges might seem, after a three—year investigation, relatively minor — k...