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Podcast. senator franken, its great to see you. -- >> great to be here. >> - ill just ask you, do you like regular beer or woke free beer >> both. it depends on which one is happier. -- what amazes me are these state passing the six-week laws, lik in florida - and the people dont want it there. and what was interesting is, before dobbs - >> yeah. >> this was a one party issue. this was a republicans issue >> they would vote on it >> they would vote on it these are one issue people now, after dob...

Information, which could get him in a lot of trouble. thats trouble called frau over 1 million dollars and he could actually do som hard time for that if that goe to trial and hes found guilty of it so i think they are tryin to apply pressure on him there to get him to cooperate on potential criminal case that alvin bragg could put forward, and maybe allen weisselber could be able to get himself out of some trouble or not i he cooperates. >> i am always bringing up allen weisselberg. -- you are ...

Now that the idea of potentially spending what coul be the rest of his life in jai for essentially protecting donald trump - hes got to decide what he i doing. and theres a kind of th pressure points on him >> and he could be the witness that these prosecutors - i mean, michael cohen is obviously a star witness but a lot of people have cas aspersions on his -- just using him as a centra voice for the prosecution. weisselberg really is th puppeteer in terms of th financial dealings of the trum or...

-- >> incentive >> right now the trump organization is paying his legal fees and ive also paid him handsomely over years and year and years, up to - through the trial. i just dont think you can know, though i just think its a real a noble -- i think it perplexes a lot o people and a lot of people think abou it because you can just imagin this man sitting in rikers and facing - >> the rest of his life in jai -- >> i think - >> or pass - >> - incredibly loyal to. and just also, i think, imagin -- ...

Second time in the new yor state attorney general sweeping civil fraud lawsuit in september, new york a.g laetitia james filed a massive 250 million dollar civil fraud lawsuit, accusing trump, his adult children, and hi organization of staggering fraud, for over valuing th assets by billions trump, before that depositio -- he made sure this morning to call a.g. james a racist because that appears to be his main line of defense here. and since he arrived at th a.g.s office, he was greete with cha...

Is getting out of rikers in matter of days he has changed representation. there is a lot that is being read into why he would b changing his counsel at this juncture from your experience, given al that looms over him, after eve he gets out of rikers, what ar the implications of change i counsel at a juncture like this? the read anything into it? >> you know, theres been some reporting that suggests that the new legal team that hes now connected himself with i even more aligned with the former pr...

He is. -- does it ring hollow tea when folks suggest that maybe thi is just because hes so loya to donald trump? >> i think is incredibly loyal and also think theres financial -- >> incentive >> right now the trump organization is paying his legal fees and theyve als paid him handsomely over years and years and years up t through the trial. -- i just think you can kno though, i just dont think it -- it perplexes a lot of people and a lot of people think abou it because you can just imagine this ...

Broadening that investigation, not just to the watch trump di to potentially overthrow a election and subvert democracy but potentially fund-raise off of it -- which, ive got to say, let not lose sight of the fact o how ambitious that is, not jus to steal the election, but t potentially raise money off of it what legal peril does that add to the case here in terms of donald trumps exposure? >> well, it adds a lot wire fraud is sort of a -- crime for federal prosecutor and it carries a maximum 2 ...

A. g.s office said trump spok a lot, which was quite different from the last time h was deposed. just two days after the fb searched trumps florida hom for classified documents, trum set for a deposition where h invoked the fifth amendmen nearly 450 times >> i respectfully declined t answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the united states constitution this will be my answer to an further questions. >> you are currently the president of the trump org...

Live issue over in the d.a. office >> right i think hes very interested i it i think a lot of people righ now are very focused on what alvin bragg is doing the, hush money payment. but theres a very separat case going on into the valuations that tish james i looking at we dont know exactly wher that is at but it was very live and wel when cy vance was in charge of that office a year or so ago and theres no reason to believe that its been put off i believe right now its on th back burner. but if ...