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Allen weisselberg and his son, donald trump jr. as part of a civil criminal -- as part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud? is that your testimony today? >> yes. >> and do you know if this criminal financial scheme that the president, allen weisselberg and donald trump jr. being involved in is being investigated by the southern district of new york? >> id rather not discuss that question because it could be part of an investigation thats currently ongoing. >> but i just want the american...

David pecker, dylan howard, barry levine, of ami, as well. allen weisselberg. alan garten of the trump organization, as well. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, ron lieberman, and matthew calamari. >> would don jr. or mr. weisselberg have more information about that? >> mr. weisselberg, for sure. >> "for sure." now, donald trump jr. and ivanka trump name checked by cohen. our cameras caught don junior at a conservative conference today, where he was basically tr...

Allen weissleberg has deep institutional knowledge. so what donny was saying when the southern district decides to pounce and start to take apart some of the pieces of what trumps doing, particularly i think around issues like money laundering. >> correct. >> allen weissleberg is going to be a cog in the middle of that because he authentically knows where all bodies are buried. >> youre not going to have to go through enron. tim will know this. if youve been up to the trump organization, its a d...

First though, get everything they need and want from mr. weisselberg and then maybe only then will congress hear from him. >> chuck, can you just explain what sorts of crimes he would have witnessed? he was talking in the context, or at least some of the questions of the hush money scheme, that we know the southern district of new york, found to be a criminal undertaking and cohens part, they also rernsferenced individ one, the president. what would weisselbergs role have been? what crimes could...

I dont want you to. i want you to look at the documents and make your own decision. >> among the documents was this. a check for $35,000, dated august 1st 2017. while the president was in office. while he was president of the united states. cohen says it was part of his reimbr reimbursement for hush money paid to storm a daniels. that was part of the criminal scheme to which cohen has already pleaded guilty in federal court. a scheme that may well have helped donald trump get elected and the che...

Lets bring in some expert help on that. joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in the northern district of alabama. joyce, thank you for being here tonight. i know it has been a dense day of following all this information. >> its a smorgasbord kind of day, right? >> cohen provides these two checks from march and august of 2017, one signed by the president, one signed by the cfo and his eldest son. ro khanna there called that evidence of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud. does...

Testimony before the house intelligence committee. is that correct? >> thats correct. >> which specific lawyers reviewed and edited your statement to congress on the moscow tower negotiations, and did they make any changes to your statement? >> there were changes made, additions. jay sekulow for one. >> well, today that very man jay sekulow, the trump lawyer, responded to cohen calling his testimony "completely false." cohen also spoke of the hush money payments, again implicating the president ...

That suffered the repercussion, and thats why youre in jail? >> will be going to jail, yes. >> the three other people, though, who were equally involved in this conspiracy, is that true? >> yes, it is true. >> congressman ro khanna today putting a fine point on one of the four serious allegations of criminal behavior made against the president and those closest to him today. the garden variety financial fraud as he put it at issue here is about the payment of $130,000 to stop a woman from saying...

Going to have to bring in the cfo and probably donald trump jr., because they are linked to the checks. i also think that what were going to probably find out, if we are able to get to the trump organizations tax return is that there was tax evasion, and probably misappropriation, because they probably took a tax deduction on the payments to michael cohen as a result of the hush money deal. so there is a lot more to look at for sure. tax evasion, finance bank fraud, all of those i think are wort...

Testimony. >> cfo of trump world, that guys got talking to do because he got name dropped a lot. and i imagine we will be hearing more from him in some capacity or another. much more to get through in the first public testimony. the presidents former right-hand man, including cohens allegations the president is lying about some of the questions at the heart of the mueller probe. e questions a the mueller probe. its absolute confidence in 30,000 precision parts. or it isnt. its inspected by merce...