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>> thats all, right now is a good reason to do, it my friend. have a good weekend, we will see you next week. >> you too. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening as well. his name was vinnie the chin. not because of his strong job. rather, the name vinnie the chain was the plan the italian name vin chan so. his government name was vincent jean gati. and depending on who you asked, he was either the leader of a notorious new york crime family, or a doctoring fool who di...

left is walking down the street in bedroom slippers, wearing his pajamas beneath a bathrobe. this man is vincent and the fbi says he is the mafia boss of the richest mafia family in the country. his doctor says the man in pajamas is mentally ill -- not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child, afraid of the dark. >> hes crazy as a fox. and he has played this game for many years. >> the last time that gigante was arrested, in a bribery case in the early 70s, the charges were dropp...

What he speaks. the federal prosecutor, who led the case, against vincent vinny the chin gigante, all those years ago, was none other than andrew weissmann. so, when we start to grapple with what looks like yet another instance of potential trump world witness tampering, there is only one person who has the kind of unique experience to tell us how we should be thinking about this. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, former senior member of special counsel robert muell...

Hes the author of, where law ends, inside the mueller investigation. hes currently a professor at nyu law school. and hes older than he looks because of the vinny the chin stuff. sorry to out you for that, andrew. but it is a relevant piece of information. lets bring it into the present now. weve talked a lot about the past. you are familiar with donald trumps many attempts to obstruct and interfere in the investigation that you were a part of, the special counsel, robert muellers investigation....

Effort to protect the government interests. what this was was an effort to use a private government jet, an air force jet, to go on his honeymoon. you know, one of the ironies of this is that his wife got into an instagram battle with somebody else and made a comment saying, i bet you think that the government paid for our honeymoon or travel, laugh out loud, laugh out loud. now its apparent that she said that because she already knew the government had rejected their request for that travel. it...