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It will be hard to square what we learn about trump org and the manifest clotishness of the man at the top of it. he doesn't seem like a particularly savvy deft maneuverer. but he and michael cohen and weisselberg and all the people that have been around the family enterprise are very steeped in how you essentially futz with the legal structures to hide money inflows, to hide expenses, to move money around, and that's a particular set of skills that -- >> not only that's correct but to sell the myth of yourself in order to make more monday i. remember the whole premise of the apprentice is thi...

It will be hard to square what we learn about trump org and the manifest clotishness of the man at the top of it. he doesn't seem like a particularly savvy deft maneuverer. but he and michael cohen and weisselberg and all the people that have been around the family enterprise are very steeped in how you essentially futz with the legal structures to hide money inflows, to hide expenses, to move money around, and that's a particular set of skills that -- >> not only that's correct but to sell the myth of yourself in order to make more monday i. remember the whole premise of the apprentice is thi...

What we learn about trump oerg and t org and the manifest at the top of it. he doesn't seem savvy deft maneuverer. he and michael cohen, weisselberg, around the trump enterprise, are steeped in how you futz with the legal structures, to hide money inflows, hide expenses, to move money around and that's a particular set of skills that -- >> not only that, but to sell the myth of yourself in order to make more money. remember the whole premise of the apprentice is he was a successful businessman, which is fundamentally not true. donald trump drew a paycheck like you and i do. he had a w-2 form. ...

Leading expert in gift and estate tax law. thanks you all for being here. jeff, does this sound right to? >> my hat is so -- i'm so impressed by the quality of the journalism and the care with which this is done. but there's really a larger political message here, which is that if you get a w2, like most people, you get a salary, you have basically no chance to cheat on your taxes. i mean, they withhold a certain amount every two weeks. that's just sort of how taxes work in this country. but if you're rich, like the trumps, you can set up a system like this. and they detail in the most extraor...

We don't feel like they ever had the whole picture of what was happening. so i think we've pointed out cases where it looks like things were just hidden from them, and that's how it kind of slid through. in other cases, like the one we were just discussing, that was never reviewed by anybody that we're aware of. >> stay with us. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin, michael d'antonio, and lee ford trott, a university of florida law professor and a leading expert in gift and estate tax law. thanks you all for being here. jeff, does this sound right to? >> it's grotesque. it's so unbelievable. my h...