weisselberg's hands. so i am told by a republican official close to the white house, it's getting closer and closer to his inner circle. how do you think he feels? important to point out there's no sense of wrongdoing here by mr. weisselberg but there is a sense he's doing a lot. tax returns, you name it. so this is something if you want subpoena someone, this is someone who knows where a lot of the information is. i can just hear right now the president landing on the south lawn of the white house momentarily. anderson, we'll see if he says anything in a while about all these questions. >> how did the president find out that weisselberg was subpoenaed? >> i'm told he was told by his lawyers. he did see it play out on television in realtime as he was doing his campaign-style event this afternoon. so he was watching that coverage. so this was not surprising this necessarily happened. we do know the michael cohen prosecutors are looking at all of this. of course, mr. weisselberg's name was mentioned in that

weisselberg's hands. i am told by a white house official who said it's getting closer and closer to his inner circle. how do you think he feels? to point out, no sense of wrongdoing by mr. weisselberg, but knows a lot and prosecutors want to know more about finances and other matters, tax returns, you name it. if you want to subpoena someone, this is someone who knows where a lot of the information is. i can just hear right now the president landing on the south lawn of the white house momentarily. we will see if he says anything in a while about these questions. >> how did he find out weisselberg was subpoenaed? >> reporter: i'm told he was given a heads-up by his lawyers and did see it play out in television in real-time doing his campaign style events this afternoon watching that coverage. this was not surprising it necessarily happened. we do know the michael cohen prosecutors are looking at all of this and his name was mentioned on a recording we heard on cnn this week and he did learn about it this

weisselberg may have a connection to that. we'll have to see where the $150,000 that eventually was paid in connection with the karen mcdougal case came from, from the president's personal funds or out of the trump organization? weisselberg is the person who could answer those questions. >> i want to put a button on the conversation. according to the paper, for years mr. weisselberg prepared trump's tax returns. so we know he's being subpoenaed. let me move on to this new reporting out of "the new york times" that mueller, the president's tweets, "the new york times" writes this. the prosecutors who lack one slam dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior. explain how that works. >> certainly. i think sometimes when people think of witness tampering they have an image of some big guy with a crowbar coming to your door saying you'd better not testify. >> not the case. >> that's not going to be the case here. you can look to more subtle ways. threaten to go fire somebody even by a t

tell me more about weisselberg and why he's a key piece. >> remember that weisselberg has been with the trump organization and working for donald trump for many, many years. so a part of it is sort of the length of time that he has worked for donald trump is so long. and in his position at the trump organization he knew anything and everything. this is what a former trump organization employee told me. this former trump organization employee says allen knows where all of the financial bodies are buried. allen knows every deal, every dealership, every sale, anything and everything that's been done. anything you can think of this person says that goes to show and i want to make clear when this person is referring to financial bodies, if there are financial bodies to be buried this is the person that would know and the fact that he has been subpoenaed i think is important to note that we don't know what if anything he has told investigators, what he plans on telling investigators and what information he might have. this is the person if there is anything to know about the trump organizatio

first tell us more about the subpoena of allen weisselberg. >> well, weisselberg has been at the center of the trump organization for decades. he controls the movement of the money. and it's clear u.s. attorneys believe he has information that could be useful to their investigation. and as one former employee put it, this could be a nightmare scenario for trump. tonight the man once described as the most senior person in the trump organization who isn't a trump is tapped to talk to federal investigators. the "wall street journal" reports allen weisselberg, the trump organization's chief financial officer, has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the ongoing federal probe against michael cohen. if weisselberg's name sounds familiar, it's because you heard him mentioned on that secretly recorded conversation between cohen and trump, exclusively obtained by cnn from cohen's attorneys. >> and i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing which will be -- >> wait a sec. what financing? >> reporter: on the tape cohen and trump are heard discussing buying the rig

this week is my chief financial officer allen weisselberg. and you think george is tough? wait until you see allen. >> reporter: he currently runs the family's company, along with the president's sons eric and don jr. and he's now caught up in the wide-ranging financial investigation of former trump fixer and personal attorney, michael cohen. prosecutors in new york also examining whether cohen broke laws trying to quiet women who claimed to have had affairs with trump. weisselberg front and center in a newly released secretcord you trp and cohen apparently discussing a plan to buy the rights to the story of a playboy playmate who says she had a relationship with trump. on the recording, cohen proposes creating a shell company to do the deal. >> and i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> so, what do we have to pay for this one, 150? >> yes. >> reporter: prosecutors now using a federal grand jury to question weisselberg, the president's loyal long-time deputy who knows all there is to know about t

weisselberg's thinking. there is somebody saying that he didn't know why he was signing off on this 35 grand a month to michael cohen that was ultima ultimately going to help pay for the payments to women. i want you to keep that in mind when you listen to michael cohen talking with then candidate trump about making a payment. take a listen. >> you need to open up a company for the transfer of the info regarding our friend david. i have come up. i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> so cohen says i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set up the thing with funding. do you buy that weisselberg didn't know what the retainer was being paid for? >> of course, i don't buy it. i take everything i hear from trump world as a lie. what we have seen from this president and people working for him is that they lie and they lie and they lie. that is the one revealing fact from this tape. you can argue and debate whether you heard that he was going to pay cash or

is it unfair to say that weisselberg, the weisselberg news word of his subpoena is so big, would reverberate, we could learn it had a huge effect inside the trump white house. >> what we now is the subpoena is in the southern district. we don't know what prosecutors are seeking from him. we don't know what he's told them. he knows a great deal about trump and his inner circle. it would be soon or a long time coming. he has -- he's done -- he's handled the president's personal financial matters as well as his professional and business matters. >> can't thank you all enough our front four starting us off. coming up, as we approach our first commercial break more on the impact of tonight's developments in this tightening investigation surrounding the trump inner circle. michael cohen ready to say the president did know about this meeting in trump tower for starters. tonight was the deadline to reunite migrant fathers and mothers with their children. u.s. government says hundreds of families will remain torn apart. update for you as the 11th hour is just getting started beneath the washington mo

it was weisselberg who cohen mentioned repeatedly.n the secret recording michael cohen made of him and donald trump discussing a possible payment they reference allen weisselberg. >> i spoke to allen about it when it comes to financing -- >> what financing? >> allen weisselberg is the long time chief financial officer for the trump organization. we have learned he has been subpoenaed as a witness in the criminal probe of cohen according to the wall street journal. >> replacing george this week is my chief financial officer allen weisselberg. >> reporter: he appeared on trump's reality show "the apprentice" and handles financial matters for years, a relationship trump has tried to down play as trump's legal problems have grown. >> a tiny fraction. he has other things. he has businesses. from what i understand they are looking at his businesses. >> reporter: cohen has complained of feeling abandoned by the president telling a friend i don't understand why no one is calling me and why no one is communicating with me. the newly released r

weisselberg has spent decades as chief financial officer. after he was elected he was giving up day-to-day control of his business. his lawyer said trump was handing control over to three people. business deals and finances according to trump biography. he knows more about the trump history and finances than anyone. weisselberg has worked for the trump family since the 1970s. allen knows where all of the financial bodies are buried within the trump organization which is why today's news may have induced some serious panic in the president of the united states. because according to the "wall street journal," weisselberg has been subpoenaed. and to the $130,000 payment that cohen made to stormy daniels. in may "the new york times" reported that weisselberg has known since last year the details of how mr. cohen was being reimbursed. all of that of course might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what there is to be learned to a man that knows where the financial bodies are buried. robert mueller and his team are scrutinizing tweets as th

i've spoken to alan weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> alan weisselberg, the washington post now reporting that the government has seized more than 100 recordings that cohen made of conversations, which relate to trump. cnn caught up with cohen today. >> what else is on the tapes? >> cohen's silence comes as we are learning bob mueller is scrutinizing trump's twitter account. according to "new york times," mueller's team is investigating president trump's tweets and statements about tomorrow jeff sessions and the former fbi director jim comey to see if they amount to obstruction of justice. mueller is now looking at it reportedly the-to-see whether the president one intimidated witnesses or two tried to pressure officials to end the russia investigation. we know mueller wants to ask trump in particular about this tweet. it was posted on may 12th. a year ago. three days of trump fired comey. james comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. better hope, it sounds like a threat the white house incy

weisselberg, if you take jay at his word, mr. weisselberg could be a powerful witness for the government. he actually prepared donald trump's tax returns. when you have a tax case or a tax return, there are a lot of items on that return that are ambiguous that don't really tell you a lot unless you get behind the companies or the individual entries on there. and what weisselberg can do is really illuminate where all this money came from, whether these were russian-involved or not, what was behind these numbers, what was behind the entries -- >> you and jay -- this is what's so interesting and why we like getting everyone in on the conversation. you and jay agree, on a narrow factual part of this, which is that this is a key witness to everything who knows everything. >> yes. and he can also -- the key is, he can explain the ambiguities that are in those returns. >> now, do you agree, based on your knowledge of any of this, or are you not able to say whether weisselberg will ultimately be loyal to donald trump or the truth? >> i t

and so i don't think we would say weisselberg would not tell the truth. think that what we would expect is that he would very much toe the line to what donald trump's story is. and his story is that michael cohen was a renegade. he did kind of all of this stuff on his own. we have been told weisselberg didn't know what the reimbursements were for, because cohen was trusted to make payments for the trump family on various matters so he just arranged for that stuff with a minimal amount of documentation. so i don't know -- if i were trump, i wouldn't be so worried about weisselberg turning on him, generally. >> great to see you. thank you very much. michael rothfeld of the "wall street journal" joining me here in new york. >>> over 600 migrant children are still in limbo, separated from their parents under president trump's zero tolerance policy, days after a court imposed deadline the u.s. government tore apart. the president tweeting today, he would shut down the government if lawmakers don't acede to his demands for more money to fortify the u.s./mexico

alan weisselberg i suspect knows a lot more. this is going to make the president very, very unhappy to hear that weisselberg is now being called as a witness to testify before the grand jury. there's a lot more legal developments unfolding right now. i want all of you to stick around. we're getting new details in the case involving the president's former fixer, michael cohen. a new report now says the feds have more than 100 audiotapes involving president trump and others. we're now learning what was the last straw before cohen's team leaked that tape. plus, fireworks erupt when the secretary of state refuses to reveal any details of the president's conversation for two hours and ten minutes with vladimir putin in helsinki. the question is, why? we'll discuss. hi, i'm joan lunden with a place for mom, the nation's largest senior-living referral service. for the past five years, i've spoken with hundreds of families and visited senior-care communities around the country. and i've got to tell you, today's senior-living communities

don junior, eric and allen weisselberg.hat's how entrenched allen weisselberg is with the trump organization. it is very significant prosecutors have requested an interview, information from him. that reporting according to "the wall street journal." >> thank you for your reporting. with me now our chief legal analyst and a former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin. gentlemen, thank you for being here. let's begin, jeffrey, with what options allen weisselberg has now. >> unless he can take the fifth, i mean he basically has to talk. he's not a lawyer, so there's no attorney-client privilege issue, a cfo client privilege. if he's called to testify he has to talk. the way prosecutors usually work or try to work is to have the actual financial records to confront a witness with. it's always better to show a witness documents so that they can't say i don't remember, i don't know the detail. it's often a complex matter to interview someone like a cfo who deals with a lot of numbers because you need to numbers first. but prosecuto

allen weisselberg. he's been called to testify before a grand jury for the michael cohen investigation. why does this matter? a trump biographer said weisselberg has worked for the trump family since the '70s. he could potentially provide more damaging information to prosecutors than cohen could about the president's dealmaking. check out this stint in front of a camera in 2004 on the "aprend"apre "apprenti "apprentice." guest mentor. his name popped up more on the recording between him and president trump. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. i'll do it right away. i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> there he is. barbara is still back with us. msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney. anita and betsy here, as well. the significance of weisselberg being subpoenaed. according to the "wall street journal," somebody who is a financial gatekeeper. >> yeah. i think this is really interesting. not on

weisselberg's name came up in the recording of trump and cohen that cohen's lawyer gave cnn this week. the two men talked during the campaign about possibly buying the rights to the former playmates story claiming she had an affair with mr. trump. >> i need to open a company for the transfer of that information regarding our friend david. i will do that right away. >> give it to me. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. i'm all over that. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing. >> neither weisselberg, the federal prosecutor, nor the trump organization responded to the request for comment. >>> president trump set to meet with the national security counsel on the issue of election security. it may include the update on the russian interference methods. it may try to effect the mid terms pushing hard to help democrats. one democrat vulnerable is missouri senator mccaskill. the daily beast reports there was a phishing attack targeting her office. mirroring attacks against hillary clintons's campaign manager. mccaskill said i wi

weisselberg is the treasurer of the donald j. trump foundation which has just come under very aggressive legal scrutiny in new york state. allen weisselberg is such an important and senior figure in the president's business empire when the president announced he was handing off day-to-day control of his business, now that he's president, the common shorthand we use for that transaction is to say the president handed over control of his business to his two sons, don junior and eric. but actually, the group he handed over control of his business to is his two sons don junior and eric but also allen weisselberg. allen weisselberg is the lynchpin of all trump financial matters. not incidentally, mr. weisselberg is also reported to have been personally responsible for preparing donald trump's tax returns. for years. oh. if he has now been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in the southern district of new york, that is potentially a very big deal. we know that the president has been particularly sensitive even particularly emotional ar

i've spoken to alan weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. with -- >> so what are we going to pay -- >> yes. and it's all the stuff. all the stuff. here you never know -- >> maybe he gets hit by a struck. >> correct. so i'm all over that. i spoke to alan about it. when it comes time for the financing which would be -- >> we'll have to -- >> pay with cash. >> no, no, no. >> how are you? >> okay. if i'm a juror, i heard donald trump say the word cash. michael avenatti, that is the dispute tonight, and that word is the reason lanny davis gave for releasing this tape tonight. when the tape was first mentioned, there was a dispute, rudy giuliani saying it will help donald trump when this tape comes out. lanny davis saying no, it won't help donald trump when this tape comes out. so lanny davis publicly tonight has said he wanted the tape to be out there so we could all hear donald trump suggest paying in cash. >> lawrence, i agree. there's no question that donald trump is the individual on the tape who mentions the word "cash." i don't even think t

why is allen weisselberg so critical here? i'll remind viewers that that audio tape that came out, that conversation between michael cohen and donald trump speaking about that hush money payment perhaps to karen mcdougal, that former playboy model, mentioned allen, allen weisselberg in that tape. >> before we get to the tape, allen weisselberg has been a long-time confidant and employee at the trump information. he's the cfo of the trump organization and he's been described as being one of the closest people to the -- not only is he in the innermost circle of the trump family and organization, but he's at the senior-most levels there. somebody described him like wallpaper. he blends in there and for that reason and in part because of his loyalty and his sort of understated presence has been able to last there for decades. he's been at the organization since the days of fred trump, donald trump's father. >> and the bottom line as i understand my colleague katy tur speaking to someone, a former employee of the trump organization

if there were checks cut, it went through allen weisselberg. testifies, what does that tell? >> if the southern district is only looking at the payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdoogle, yes, he is important. he is the conduit through which payments are made. if f this is broader, than his role welcomes even that issue more important. starting with fred trump way wac when and continuing on. we don't know what the southern district is looking at it yet. we talked earlier about why hasn't cohen been before the southern district, nanny this case, the documents they seized from his property and his computers went through a master process where she determined what they could look at. now they're just really getting access to that information. they may not be ready to talk to cohen because they have not yet digesting all of the stuff they have. so what is important for them to learn is what is it that the scope includes, and if it is broad, than weisselberg will be a witness in this investigation. >> i'm not sure it matters in terms of legal jeop

weisselberg. >> you've got cohen and weisselberg, to use the organized crime example, the lawyer and the accountant are the two guys you need. >> in "the untouchables" when they had the accountant on the stand and he was deciphering at capone's ledger, when he admitted that these were improperly booked revenues that were going to al capone, not paying taxes on several million dollars, that's what finally closed the door to capone. not to compare donald trump to him, but it's a process. >> that is repeated in many, many cases that the thing you think somebody goes down for is actually not and it's often accounting. the morning after the recordings came out we were speaking to a number of lawyer who say said don't get caught up on cash versus check because though lanny davis wanted us to, the issue is knowledge of whether something untoward, possibly illegal, was happening. that's the reference to weisselberg. the idea that michael cohen, donald trump and allen weisselberg were forming a company to pay off our friend, david pecker, or buy something from david pecker. that's david pecke

weisselberg mentioned in the recording.ses a shell company. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> reporter: prosecutors using a federal grand jury to question weisselberg. he knows all there is to know about the trump family business. the tape is of high interest and they just got access to it this week. weisselberg is a key witness in knowing more about trump's finances. trump wrote in one of his books, allen has been with me 30 years and knows how to get things done. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> a group of investors is calling on mark zuckerberg to step down as chairman of facebook. >> they say it weakens the oversight. facebook has rejected similar requests in the past including one last year. >>> house lawmakers have gone on summer recess without considering articles of impeachment against rod rosenstein. a handful of republicans are accusing him of not complying with requests for documents. house speaker paul ryan says he does not support impeaching rosenstein.

that's where allen weisselberg's name comes into public view. we learn that federal prosecutors want to talk to him. >> one of your sources says he knows the most about president trump's business outside of his children. hired by the president's father a long time ago. >> possibly more than the children. the way the trump organization works, based on my reporting on it, is everyone kind of goes off on the business side and does their own deals, goes out and fine finds licensing opportunities. there are few people that know what everyone is doing. there's a handful. trump, when he was there. allen weisselberg and maybe one other executive. when trump left to go into -- to go to d.c. he entrusted the business to his sons. >> thank you for the reporting. >>> straight ahead, polling su s suggest democrats have a solid chance of flipping the house in november. what's their message? we are talking to a lawmaker who is running for a leadership position in the party. what message does she think the democrats need to send next? ♪ oh, look... another anti

one of the uniting factors around all of this is allen weisselberg.e was on the board of the charity. he's in and out of all of these accounts, and as your source told you, and i think it's completely spot on, he knows where all the financial bodies are buried. >> what does that mean, he knows where all the financial bodes a bodies are buried? does that assume guilt? >> of course, that statement assumes guilt. that's how your source characterized it. however, if we were to simply back away from that, there is some pretty interesting unanswered questions about the trump organization's finances over the last decade. they've made a lot of purchases for what they say is in cash. they said they didn't finance those purchases through bank loans. they didn't finance them through selling off company businesses. they spent about 400 million of what they said is their own money. eric trump has described it as such. in the midst of that they had projects like the trump soho hotel, which was a boondoggle that had money from it from eastern europe and career crimi

allen weisselberg may invoke his right to the fifth amendment.d we shouldn't draw any conclusions but prosecutors can grant him immunity in an effort to force him to testify will he will know sources of money which is critical to the russia matters. he will know who trump is fully indebted to. because the financial disclosure forms for the president are not very good. as mr. trump himself. these forms were not designed for a imagine of mr. trump's great wealth. >> according to the "new york times," >> he goes way be the family. can you talk about the importance of loyalty within the family, within this organization? >> well, fred trump had a business partner named willie thomas sela identified in law enforcement public reports as a front for the gambino mafia families, two biggest mafia families in new york. and donald grew up and came boo the business when, of course, fred was still in charge of it. what's changed is that the current trump organization has lots of dealings with russian mobsters. by that, i mean russian-speaking peoples from the

now, sources familiar with the probe told the journal that weisselberg is considered a witness.eisselberg arranged for the trump organization to pay cohen after he made $130,000 payment to stephanie clifford, also known as stormy daniels, to keep quiet about an alleged affair. now, one of the president's closest and oldest business associates, weisselberg has worked with the trump family since the 1980s and was even featured on ""the apprentice" just days before trump was inaugurated he turned over his business operations to his two grown sons under weisselberg's guidance. neither he nor the trump organization responded to "the journal's" request for comment. >>> special bob mueller is reported examining president trump's tweet as part of the probe into obstruction of justice. three people briefed on the matter telling "the new york times" mueller is looking at tweets and negative statements from the president about a.j. jeff sessions and james comey. according to the times mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. his interest in them is the latest addition to a

weisselberg. cnn has told cohen asserts mr. trump knew advance about the june 2016 trump tower meeting organized by don junior with russians who promised dirt on hillary clinton. the president says he did not know in advance. in fact, the president and those who speak for him denied it some 20 times back last july when word of the meeting broke. cohen says others can back him up. the president's lawyer who just a few weeks ago called cohen a straight shooter and an honorable man now says pay no attention to the man who for years lived behind the trump tower curtain. >> i expected something like this from cohen. he's been lying all week or two -- he's been lying for years. we all make mistakes about people who have been disloyal to us. benedict arnold was disloyal. you can go back to ancient classical literature and find people who you think you trust and they turn out to be scoundrels. >> i don't think i want to go back to brutus and cesar, but we have a dilemma here for bob mueller to resolve for the southern district of new y

weisselberg's name came up in the recording of trump and cohen that cohen's lawyer gave cnn this week. the two men talked during the campaign about possibly buying the rights to the former playmates story claiming she had an affair with mr. trump. >> i need to open a company for the transfer of that information regarding our friend david. i will do that right away. >> give it to me. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. i'm all over that. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing. >> neither weisselberg, the federal prosecutor, nor the trump organization responded to the request for comment. >>> also breaking overnight. north korea handing over the first set of patchy fossible re killed in the korean war. u.s. air force plane with 55 cases of remains arrived at the osan air base in south korea. alexandra field joins us live from outside the air base. alex, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dave. the commitment has never waivered to bring home the remains of every soldier killed in the conflict. it has been 65 years. mor

we learned federal prosecutors e seeking to interview allen weisselberg, mr. trump's chief e financial ofand someone who knows as much as anyone about how the trump organization and mr. trump personallyas done business and with whom. but there were two other stories that got the most attention this week and they bothnvolve the president's now former long-time attorney, friend and fi michael cohen. not only did cohen release a tape o money payments to a playboy model, hepa appears to be pd to tell the special counsel that mr. trump knew about the infamous trump tower msiting with rs in advance. if michael cohen tells that version of events and if he could provit, could turn changer, even game for members of mr. trump's own party. >> is michael cohen lying? >> for more than a year, president trump and his surrogates have denied that he knew of the june 2016 meeting with kremlin-connect agentst trump tower that included his son, his son-in-law, and his thenma campaign chair who is now behind bars. >> no, i didn't know anything about the meeting. >> do you tell yo

. >>> replacing george this week is my chief financial officer allen weisselberg.hink george is tough, wait until you see allen. >> that was donald trump hosting the second season of "the apprentice" in 2004. the chief financial officer allen weisselberg, the washington street journal has report reported. let's get to our white house's chief and susan page, so you have been tracking all this. tell us who is allen weisselberg and tell us how he matters. >> he's the bookkeeper and he worked for donald trump's father and now for donald trump. he knows all the financial history of the company and of the president's. he's important because he can help prosecutor in new york to potentially figure out whether there were reimbursements made and he can help build al n narrative of the final picture of the trump's organization. >> susan package, this is getti really close. getting into his finances, that's what he told michael schmidt of what he's concerned about. >> weisselberg knows a lot more. and also this is an investigation by the southern district of new york. it is n

but what does your reporting tell you about what exactly it is they want from weisselberg?about how the payment was going to be made to ami. >> and that's karen mcdougall. >> correct. so he knows how that money is moving. if you're investigating michael cohen and you're trying to figure out what that was all about and what the intent was for the payment and whether it violated finance campaign laws, you're going to need to talk to him. the question is how much broader does it go than that? we tried to pin the president down on this when we spoke to him last july and created what i called the faulty red line, as most red lines are, where you said look, is he looking at your finances, does that violate the red line? and he basically says that. we were talking about mueller at that point. now we're talking about prosecutors in the southern district of new york looking at his finances, his same justice department. does that violate the president's red line? the are the hasn't done anything about that to enforce the red line of such. so, look, i can't believe the president is go

why is allen weisselberg so critical here?mind viewers that that audio tape that came out, that conversation between michael cohen and donald trump speaking about that hush money payment perhaps to karen mcdougal, that former playboy model, mentioned allen, allen weisselberg in that tape. >> before we get to the tape, allen weisselberg has been a long-time confidant and employee at the trump information. he's the cfo of the trump organization and he's been described as being one of the closest people to the -- not only is he in the

and that's why allen weisselberg is so important. i'm not saying that this necessarily means the end of donald trump, but what it means is this is more than simply now an issue of one particular russian hacker. and on top of this remember one other thing, george. the trial of paul manafort, trump's former campaign manager, starts this week and goodness knows what comes out of that. >> it will be interesting. that case certainly focused on bank and tax crimes. financial fraud. but you know, not connected to the trump camp, mr. trump directly, but the question is how will that impact paul manafort with the bigger investigation playing out? scott lucas, thank you so much for your time today. we'll stay in touch with you. >> thank you. >>> in a few hours the trump administration is facing another reunification deadline order by a judge. we're talking about what's going on at the border. this time the administration has to provide a list to the american civil liberties union detailing the migrant children it has reunited with their meanti

i'm eamon javers in washington dow jones has reported a new subpoena has gone out, allen weisselbergeen subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in a probe of michael cohen, the president's former lawyer and it's not known whether he already appeared before the grand jury or what questions the prosecutors from the new york southern district have for him and they're saying that the date of that subpoena could not be determined weisselberg is an absolutely key figure in the trump organization as the chief financial officer he is viewed as one of the top people inside the trump organization who was not a trump himself. he was mentioned in that michael cohen tape of the president of the united states that was released earlier this week on cnn and other news outlets cohen refers to allen weisselberg about using financing involved in financing payments for secrecy running up to the elections >> eamon thanks so much. out of our bure yo in washington, d.bureau in washington, d.c. >>> back to "the blitz," honeywell. you talked about it, 8% or so this week. >> i did i bought it this w

cohen if he cooperates, against weisselberg and others in a conspiracy charge. >> all right.imi rocah, thank you for providing your expertise. southern district of new york expertise very useful these days. thanks for coming on and sharing your views. >>> up ahead, a red sign for republicans. the big blue wall that collapsed in 2016 may be on the way to being rebuilt. that's next. rodney -- mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. the list goes on. how about a discount for long lists? gold. mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. it's a gift. and jamie. -present. -together we are unstoppable. so, what are we gonna do? ♪ insurance. that's kind of what we do here. you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> welcome back. in tonight's "meet the midterms" perhaps some buyer's remorse in two of the states that helped put donald

>> well, i would certainly agree that weisselberg is it. he's handled the family business forever.hen bernie madoff was taken down it was by the guy who was pretty much a financial officer and knew how everything was handled and was with him from the start. so i think he'll be the biggest risk. of course, the second one is his son and all that has happened and unfolded since the trump tower meeting which he initially denied. >> and how about you he's been with the family since working with fred trump, donald trump's father. your thoughts? >> i think the statements outside of donald trump, jr. it is possible that he committed perjury when he testified. and i think that's most significant but perhaps the announcement of the 4.1 gdp where we are this year as we head into the midterm elections to quote james carville, it's the economy. and it's doing well because the economy is doing well. >> and what did you want to say? >> i was just going to say the economy is doing great in this quarter but i don't think that's reflecting any polling numbers in ohio, michigan, arizona or wisconsin

now, the second name is allen weisselberg. he is the cfo of the trump organization. why does his name matter? well, cohen said it. and in the context it implied that trump's company could have been involved in cohen's hush money efforts. we don't know for sure. but it seems like he was talking to him about it. the legalities. it would be all about money movements on one level. and we know of no transaction that ever actually happened. they're talking about doing it, but we don't believe it was done. the company was set up. and then it was closed down and another one was set up. and that second one was done for stormy daniels. that was a different corporation. but it was set up with the same kind of dynamic, which is why we care about this dynamic because it sheds light on what could be a pattern. now there's something that's not getting a lot of notice. if this were just about mcdougal, why did cohen say "all the stuff from a.m.i." listen to this. >> what are we going to pay? >> funding -- yes. and it's all the stuff -- >> i was thinking about that. >> all the stuff.

"the wall street journal" is reporting that the trump organization cfo, allen weisselberg, somebody we introduced you to yesterday, known as the president's long-time financial gate keeper, is being called to testify before a grand jury in a criminal case involving the president's personal attorney or former personal attorney, who, by the way, has publicly fumed -- turned against the president, and that's not all. 50 new subpoenas have just been requested by prosecutors in the case against the president's former campaign chief, paul manafort, whose trial, by the way, begins in just a few days. and all of these are developments that happened in just the last few hours. folks, amid this accelerating frenzy of legal activity embroiling this president and his allies, we're also seeing a phenomenon of what you might call creeping authoritarianism from this president and his allies. and this creeping authoritarianism seems like it might be part of an attempt to regain, disrupt or overtake the narrative of legal woes that i just mentioned. >>> the white house retaliated against a reporter yes

allen weisselberg. considered a witness. people said according to the "wall street journal." tell us a little bit about the trump organization and how it can get dragged in in you view. how involved is the trump organization in the political organization. >> oh, this is all one piece. he's also not a detailed person. he issues directives. allen weisselberg's involvement with the trump family goes back to when fred trump was running the organization. let's not forget fred trump's business partner was willie, identified in law enforcement reports as a front for the gam bee know and behalf families. all the money, in and out. he may be in a position when he's called to testify invokes fifth amendment right. i'm sure prosecutors and you can talk about this, would in a moment give him immunity transactional or prof lactic because we don't care about him. he's not the focus of this. he knows where the money went and where the money came in and where it went out is critical to understanding what is going on here. >> who would get them in front of grand jury. >> weisselberg is clearl