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Been? his history has been lying under pressure. >> lets talk about what we have been witnessing. who is watching the white house for the associated press if theyre both with us tonight. >> who is putting out the wire? >> welcome to you both. theres so much to talk about what was just in there. this is straight up character assassination by any definition by rudy giuliani. the man hes talking about was until recently the personal lawyer for the man who became president of the united states. hes ...

Pressure, whats his history been? his history has been lying under pressure. >> lets talk about what we have been witnessing. who is watching the white house for the associated press if theyre both with us tonight. >> who is putting out the wire? >> welcome to you both. theres so much to talk about what was just in there. this is straight up character assassination by any definition by rudy giuliani. the man hes talking about was until recently the personal lawyer for the man who became presiden...

His history has been lying under pressure. >> lets talk about what we have been witnessing. who is watching the white house for the associated press if theyre both with us tonight. >> who is putting out the wire? >> welcome to you both. theres so much to talk about what was just in there. this is straight up character assassination by any definition by rudy giuliani. the man hes talking about was until recently the personal lawyer for the man who became president of the united states. hes callin...

Over alan weiselbergs guidance. neither he nor the trump organization responded to the journal for comment. lets bring in tim obrien. tims new piece called newco hen tape surface a bigger trump fish. he argues alan weiselberg knows far more than michael cohen. tim, tell us more about this guy. you reported on him for a while. you interviewed him for a book. how important is he to the donald trump and why is significant figure? >> hes important to donald trump because hes worked with donald trump...

>> for that moment. if you dont, you can be held in criminal contempt. its a tough situation to get around. we now see prosecutors looking -- i think the news yesterday that the cfo of the trump organization had been subpoenaed is actually one of the more dangerous pieces of information for the president that weve seen yet, because what it tells you is the investigation into michael cohen, which is separate and apart from the mueller investigation, you know, can extend not just to his individual...

On a tape. >> listen, as any chief financial officer knows where every dollar and penny happens to be within an organization. so if there were anything untoward that took place in the trump organization, he would have to know about it. the cfo is the only person really at the end of the day at the top of that pyramid besides the ceo who really knows whats going on within any company. in this case he could very well have some information on the tax returns. and it is widely believed that when the...

Their information, you dont take at face value. you have to corroborate it. one of the things i thought was interesting in the report last night was that michael cohen, not only what he said about the president knowing in advance, but he said the meeting that he was at, there were other people there. so its not just going to be michael cohens word. if he does end up coordinating with prosecutors, hes going to tell them who else was in that meeting, presumably bob mueller will invite them in for ...

Being a john dean. i think this is your john dean. wherever it starts -- if a cfo is complicit, theyre as guilty as the person doing it. whatever hes called in for, end of the day, in any kind of trouble what else does he have? he has everything. i ran a company for many, many years. >> donny has a lot of familiarity with corrupt accountants. >> yes, and a cfo, everything he does, executes every dollar in, dollar out, every business -- if donald trump ever did anything dishonest and im not accus...

Also -- >> the trump organization cfo, yes. >> that, and ive said it from the beginning. this is going to come back to 15, 20, 30 years of slimy, dishonest, underhanded business dealings. dhaect wi connect that with russia and other things we havent even talked about. >> john? >> this isnt the first time weve heard assertion from michael cohen. steve bannon acknowledged -- he wasnt in the trump campaign at the time, but formed speculation and retroactive informed speculation, another person supe...

You cannot penetrate that from the outside. you need an insider. inherently, if youre going to get inside a dirty organization, youre going to have dirty players. one of the sort of stock lines we always used to use with a jury is we didnt choose michael cohen. you dont need to love the guy. we didnt choose him. donald trump chose him. >> i was on a bus yesterday and some said to me i cant believe im rooting for michael cohen, but when you speak of organized crime, and i just used this because t...