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

and in this particular conversation they reference alan weisselberg i think at least twice and they refer to the fact that alan knows about the structure of these llcs they're using to manage payments. alan weiss'llberg was fred trump's accountant, the cfo of the trump organization for years. he knows far more about the finances of the trump organization than michael cohen ever did. and to the extent that alan weissel sfberg by virtue of being mentioned in these tapes, gets pulled more deeply into this investigation, it exposes donald trump's business practices to greater scrutiny. >> he was donald trump's father's accountant? >> yes, he was. >> is he still working? >> he's still working. he's been with the trump organization since the 1970s. he's still at the trump organization. he's the person overseeing the trust that was established after trump became president to this sort of fake insulation that trump and his sons set up to run the family business. he runs it in conjunction with eric trump -- >> is it your judgment, having studied this business as you have, that alan weisselberg wou

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

and then separately federal investigatorshave asked to interview alan weisselberg, the chief financial roof for the trump organization. what is your reaction to all these developments this week? >> i think it's an indication that bob mueller is rinching that in his investigation where he is looking pretty closely at the rpresident. wiards to issues of obstruction and probably issues of collusion as well. i think the tweets, obviously looking the tweets, think the purpose of that is to determine whether or not you cat pullether an obstruction case based on those tweet i think clearly looking at his finance guy relates to tracking the money and whether any of that money leads to russia. >> and i wanted to also ask you about th week's senate hearing where secretary of state mike pompeo said that president trump has taken tough actions against russia. what is your assessment of that statement? >> i thought that mike pompeo's testimony really presented a disconnect. he on one hand talked about u.s. policy being against gssia, beor nato, for our allies. b ricallyflecting i think more traditi

that was donald trump and alan weisselberg and he would have known about all of the dealings that trump had with russian oligarchs, whether or not there was russian money being laundered. he knows virtually everything. so it is a really big deal. >> that question, david, which is what is the economic financial entanglements in the background. there are questions on it, trump on the record, we have a lot of money there. >> it seems like he would know everything. we know there are major loans in trump's business past including a gigantic one of deutsche bank. people trying to find out more about that. we don't know if there is anything illegal there, but miss -- mysterious. if the prosecutor wants to take a page of question from mueller and ask about, well, what did it mean, when your son, when eric trump said we are getting all of this money for our golf courses from russia. what did it mean when donald trump jr. said we are getting this russian money back in the 2008 period. he can answer those questions. >> you made allusion to this. you have the mueller team preparing to go to trial a

. >> alan weisselberg, another person in donald trump's inner circle, the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization has been subpoenaed to testify as part of this investigation into cohen. people describe him as someone who knows every cent that comes into and leaves trump's businesses. what is he obligated to provide to federal prosecutors since he has been served this subpoena? >> so, he could, of course, assert his fifth amendment rights and then they would have to find other ways to get the records that he has, but a corporation, though, cannot assert a fifth amendment right so they will still be able to obtain a lot of the records but they may not be able to get the firsthand knowledge that he had. but if he wants to be forthcoming and help the prosecution, they would be able to get, you know, the conversations that he's had with mr. trump about his financial dealings. i think there's going to be an interest in whether mr. trump has sought financing from russian sources. we know that through the decades mr. trump has sought to invest in the russians and that they hav

. >> i've spoken to alan weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding -- yes. the stuff. because you never know where that company -- >> maybe he gets hit by a truck. >> correct. i'm all over that. i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing -- >> what financing? >> i have to pay -- >> cash? >> no, no, no. >> check -- >> now that you've heard it, dave, do you believe trump was familiar with what he was talking about or do you think this is a first discussion? >> i don't think it's a first discussion they've had on the topic. >> that's a problem, isn't it? >> i just heard the part where michael cohen talks about financing and president trump said we're not going to finance this. it's all about intent, it's about what the party intended here. it's a piece of the puzzle. as former a.g. cuccinelli said, this is a snapshot of a conversation one time taken out of context. chris, even if you assume all these things are true in this tape, there was nothing done that was illegal. you said there was no payment made. >> i don't think it's about a crime.

this guy, if alan weiselberg has been subpoenaed, if this report in the journal is right, that honestly has way bigger implications than just the case against michael cohen. allen weisselberg is not a household name but he is in the trump household. he's in his 70s. he's worked for the trump family his entire adult life. he started off working for the president's father i believe in the 1970s. he has been at the trump organization apparently since its inception. he's known to be not only a very trusted very senior figure in the trump organization, he's also been directly involved in a number of financial dealings related to the president and his business that have since come under legal scrutiny. for example, he is said to have been personally involved in the payments to women who alleged that they had affairs with president trump according to "the wall street journal," allen weisselberg was close enough to the president and his family he was is the one who happened their household spend expenditures. personal expenditures and purchases for mr. trump and his family including mr. trump's dealings with various banks. mr. weisselberg is the treasurer of the donald j. trump fo