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President. rick gets, cohen, george papadopoulos, david pecker and now allen weisselberg. joining us with more now is shim shimon procupez. >> hes named as an executive in the court documents. they dont name him by name, but in the charging documents that michael cohen, that the court filed in regards to michael cohen, hes in there. hes referred to as executive one, and it essentially says he reimbursed michael cohen for some of the hush money payment. its understandable why the government would...

Rick getz, cohen, george papadopoulos, david pecker and now allen weisselberg. joining us with more now is shimon procupez. what are you learning about why investigators are speaking with allen weisselberg? >> really, the key is the money. weisselberg controlled the flow of the money. hes named as an executive in the court documents. they dont name him by name, but in the charging documents that michael cohen, that the court filed in regards to michael cohen, hes in there. hes referred to as exe...

Because of the relationship of executive one and executive two, ceo and trump organization. were having direct conversations with michael cohen about how money was getting spent. >> and to follow up and confirm your point, there are things they ask in the grand jury, once again. these are facts as opposed to my voluntary where they wanted color. and i still dont understand wh >> the voluntary all they asked me about the trump children was do i still communicate and answer was no. >> you perceive...

Cohen sent executive one, allen weisselberg, an invoice to be reimbursed for his hush money payment to stormy daniels. quote, executive one, weisselberg, forwarded that to another employee at the company stating, quote, please pay from the trust, post to legal expenses. put retainer for the months of january and february 2017 in the description. but the money wasnt a retainer for michael cohens legal services. it was reimbursement for a payoff, a reimbursement that executives at the trump organi...

A source familiar tells us that weisselbergs interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on michael cohen and the hush money payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, hes referred to as executive one, who arranged $420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. he wrote -- p...

You dont see it very often because theres a trickle down effect. so generally, at least in my experience in the federal court in the southern district of new york, often you work out agreements where companies agree to pay significant, it can be in the billions of dollars of fines, to avoid prosecution. because prosecutors are wary of making people lose their jobs. i would suspect that this would also be an investigation into particular individuals who are responsible for the accounting at the t...

In into pin michael cohen. as part of that investigation, they were able to speak with him and presumably get information from him and offer him obviously if he had some sort of legal concerns of his own, they were going to say you know what, you dont need to have those concerns because obviously well offer you you some -- >> so we dont know that any legal concerns he had had to do specifically with donald trump or whatever the case is, but prosecutors said -- >> im so glad that you said that. b...

Trying to figure out what this 50,000 is. the executives at the company decided to gross up cohens 180,000 to 360,000 because after paying taxes hed end up with the amount that he paid out on behalf of trump. cohen then submitted a fake invoice on valentines day listed as a retainer for services to a person named in the criminal information as executive number one. nbc news has now confirmed that executive one is trump organization cfo allen weisselberg, thats according to a person with knowledg...

We dont know for sure. the executives decided to gross up cohens $180,000 for tax purposes. if he had to have made more than that for it to make sense. so a grand total of $420,000 to be paid out bit by bit every on the next year. to help choen hide the trail, cohen submitted a fake invoice on valentines day 20 on 17 listed as a retainer for services to a person named in the criminal information as executive number one. nbc news has now confirmed this executive number one is trump organization c...

Stormy daniels. and later on we see in that paragraph this executive one who is allen weisselberg forward the invoice to another company executive and said hey, go ahead and pay this on out and pay the legal expenses and puts it retainer for january and february. weisselberg may have had legal concerns that if he marked this the way that he marked it, he was concealing what it really was, which was a payment back to michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels. i know at this point it feels l...