>> well, there's not a lot of wiggle room right now for alan weisselberg.testified in front of the grand jury. he's already pled guilty. the new york prosecutors have a ton of documents that sort of nail him into exactly what he did. so there's not a lot of wiggle room for him. and a bunch of unusual things about this prosecution. one is that usually because an individual defendant faces going to fail as weisselberg is likely to do, they usually fight harder than the corporations and usually the ones to go to trial are the individual defendants not the corporations. here they have the reverse where he has pled guilty and yet the corporations are going to trial and alan wise el burg was the cfo. the other unusual thing is there are reports that weisselberg met with counsel. very unusual. it's hard to know what went on behind closed doors. but it's very unusual for the prosecution to agree that the defendant and the cooperator can talk to defense counsel when they have agreed to cooperate with the government. this is a carefully choreographed appearance by we

of course we are stalking about cfo alan weisselberg.ss in this. it is part of his plea agreement that he has to testify against the trump organization, that he has to do so truthfully. and that's the only way he can get the reduced sentence that he has arranged for himself through his attorneys. that's going to be the key thing to watch here. important to note, weisselberg is not going to cooperate against the former president. really legal experts say a tricky balance as far as how hard the trump organization wants to push weisselberg. should be an interesting case to follow. >> tom, what happens if the trump organization is found guilty? what, you know -- who gets affected? >> reporter: they could pay up to $1.6 million in fines. that's the only impact it could have against the company. they can't have any sort of corporate death penalty it's sometimes referred to, where they have to dissolve assets or leave entirely. there is no monitor. they can independently monitor. that is not part of new york state law. so it really comes down t

former chief financial officer for the company, alan weisselberg, is expected to be the star witnessstand as soon as next week. nbc's tom winter is reporting live from the courthouse this morning. tom, good morning. what do we expect today? >> reporter: good morning, jose. opening statements under way. the prosecution going first because it is their case to prove. it all centers around 15 years of a scheme where benefits were conveyed to the company cfo, alan weisselberg, the money man essentially at the trump organization, and that he received cars, apartments, garages for the cars, other benefits conveyed to him. that's not the illegal part, jose. the illegal part is, according to prosecutors, when he didn't pay taxes, state taxes on those benefits. you can be given those things but it is counted as income. they are saying weisselberg didn't do that, the trump administration didn't do that. he pled guilty earlier this year. both were charged back in july 2021. what is going to happen over the course of the next month or so, prosecutors are going to try to present evidence that they

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