a top executive in the trump organization has pleaded guilty in a tax avoidance game.ll get the details from our correspondent in new york. in florida, a federal judge said he was inclined to unseal parts of the affidavit that was used to justify a search warrant executed by the fbi at mr. trump's mar-a-lago estate. news organizations asked for the affidavit to be made public. let's get more from our correspondent. the government does not want this to be made public. but the judge in this case has ordered the government to propose redaction's to the affidavit. why did the judge do that? what was his reasoning? reporter: the reasoning is he says in the present record, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. let's skip back a little bit. last monday, the fbi executed a search warrant on donald trump's mar-a-lago home. on friday, we found out, because the department of justice had gone to the port and asked for the unsealing details of the warrant, we found out exactly what they have taken. 11 sets of records, inclu

he does agree to testify against the trump organization in an upcoming trial. no sentencing date has been set, but for the 74-year-old, who had his birthday just this week, earlier this week, in fact, five months in jail, probably a little bit less than that. they'll probably give him time off for good behavior, but five months in jail at rikers island, not something that he is probably looking forward to. no indication at all that he will testify or provide any sort of ongoing cooperation against the former president, donald trump, personally. he will, as we mentioned, testify against the corporation and admitted to behavior that he conducted with an unindicted co-conspirator, who's been named now publicly in jeffrey mccony, someone who was the senior vice president and controller of the trump organization. so today, all the conduct that came out in an indictment approximately a year ago when he was indicted last summer, has now been agreed to and pleaded guilty to, by allen weisselberg, the organization's former chief financial officer, and as ken said, donal

everything he pleaded guilty to today mirrors what the trump organization is charged with. makes bragg's case much easier now. and the organization is looking at either heavy fines or even the possibility of dissolution. and as close as it is identified to donald trump, yes, it's not cooperation to put him in jail but it puts a heavy hurt on him nonetheless given the importance of the trump organization for his whole empire. >> but harry, explain that. how could the trump organization be dissolved? >> okay. so they go to trial and the very same charges that were pleaded except they're on the other side against the trump organization, they masqueraded all this compensation as perks in a way to get out of paying tax. and then the d.a. will argue for what the penalty should be. new york law provides for penalties. but up to and including dissolution of the company if they've found to have acted seriously and chronically. and chronically, they certainly are going to have here. right? because this was done over years. so that's a possible -- that would be the equivalent of the l

that could even result in sort of the closing of the trump organization. but the fact that allen weisselberg is not going to cooperate against donald j. trump or the trump children is the big news here. and it means that it is increasingly unlikely that we will see criminal charges out of the manhattan d.a. against individuals in the trump organization. >> another case, there are a lot, the ongoing investigation of trump's handling of the classified documents, top secret and otherwise, down at mar-a-lago. the phrase that continues to stick out to me, ongoing grand jury criminal investigation as the doj describes it. does ongoing mean they're considering whether there is criminal liability or they're looking for more documents or both? >> both, jim. we used to say that your investigation is ongoing until the minute the jury comes back with a verdict. you're always continuing to look for more information as a prosecutor. and, yes, i think there are sort of two lanes here. some question about, well, did doj go in and seize those documents from mar-a-lago just

years in prison to a few months in exchange of testifying in a potential october trial of the trump organization. kara, this is someone who has been at donald trump's side for decades. his loyalty does appear to be showing now. what are the terms of this deal that he struck? >> reporter: well, alex, that's right. he pled guilty today to 15 felonies, all relating to him not paying income tax on a number of corporate benefits he received, including a company apartment, two luxury cars and private school tuition for two grandchildren. as part of this deal, weisselberg has agreed to cooperate in this investigation of the trump organization that is heading to trial. so as part of the deal, he'll pay back $2 million in taxes and fines, and testify at the trial scheduled for october. but that trial is just about the trump organization as a corporation with no other individual's liberty at stake. if he does meet these conditions, he's agreed to serve five months in prison. that's way down from the 15 years he could have been facing. the judge telling him today he really affirming he needed to meet these

to the dismay -- in the trump organization. re critical, the fact that charters have not been brought already, saying it has been a great failure of justi and accusing president trump of being guilty of multiple felonies. on the other hand, president trump - >> thanks for that update. let's look at donald trump's other ongoing legal investigations. the is another one in new york a civil investigation into mr. trump's business practices. there's also the investigation over the storming of the capital on the six of january by supporters of mr. trump. he stands accused of inciting insurrection after baseless claims that the election was stolen. donald trump is also being investigated for interference in that election. he told george's top election officialo find more than 11,000 votes. then there are the allegations from a columnist in the 1990's. he has denied that. and of course all of these are ongoing as donald trump contemplates a 2020 presidential rerun. let's look at the impact his legal battles might have on that with a rep

but he is going to testify in the trial against the trump organization, which does include that word trump, which -- it does have an impact on the family. >> certainly it does. and we saw this with trump university. this is a person who is a political figure, relight on his business acumen and business reputation as a key point of credibility. at least prior to his first disastrous term. for this now to sort of be thrown into the category of places where they chisel, places where they cheat the government, places where unlike the rest of america, people don't pay their taxes, that's not going to work for him politically. will he lose an election, will he lose a lot of votes? maybe not. but it is an important piece of information. >> i get the sense they brought this case thinking they could flip it. the whole point here wasn't because they thought the $1.7 million in compensation that allen weisselberg got really needed to be prosecuted. no. they wanted to hang this over his head and as a cooperator and they didn't get it. >> there is still some possibility of that. the sentence won't

this case was brought both against the trump organization and weisselberg earlier and they did not includewhich is a tax fraud case. that was marching ahead. then separately, i don't know if you remember, but months ago, there was a big fight inside the d.a.'s office about whether to charge donald trump. several lawyers wanted to go ahead and do it. this was when cy vance was the d.a. bragg came in, a new district attorney, and a decision was made not to charge on separate things that they were looking at. those attorneys resigned. that's very powerful. it's not to say that new information won't come forward and bragg, the new district attorney, won't go forward, but that came to a head and has sort of now been simmering. i don't preclude it will happen, but it seems unlikely that it will happen. threading the need for weisselberg, very smart comment. that's what's going to happen in this coming trial about simply the tax fraud that's being charged. >> tom, you've been following this really closely as well. it was unusual that move between the d.a.s. >> well, it was and obviously there's c

so the effort here by the prosecutors when they get to the trump organization, unless they negotiate get testimony out of weisselberg, certainly testimony showing donald trump knew full well what was going on, and indeed they may have additional evidence we haven't seen yet of tax evasion and other crimes by the trump organization that would come up at trial. >> david, this doesn't preclude weisselberg testifying in the future, but i wonder how likely you see that is happening. >> well, allen weisselberg, brianna, has been with donald trump longer than the 34 years i've been covering him. they are stuck together and so i would be very surprised if he does anything more than the absolute minimum to avoid contempt citations if he's called to the witness stand, and would expect he would also be treated as a hostile witness on the witness stand. >> he has to answer questions, he has to answer them honestly under penalty of perjury, his future sentencing depends on his cooperation, but the defense of the trump organization is allowed to say -- to tell the jury or ask questions about whethe

this means weisselberg will testify at a trial of the trump organization in october. e will not testify against donald trump. joining me now is tom winter, nbc news investigative correspondent outside the courthouse. you were inside. tell us what happened. this is such an extraordinary moment. the guilty plea of the chief financial officer, the man who knew all the secrets going back decades at the trump organization. >> reporter: you said it. when you think back, the cfo of the trump organization, even before the former president ran for president, back in 2015, it would be a big deal. the fact of the matter is, this investigation took place during the course of trump's presidency. it involved an investigation where they were able -- the only one we know about that was able to get the former president's tax returns and tax documents that were used to comprise those tax returns. this is an important marker in this case. ending with a guilty plea by weisselberg. the d.a.'s office is able to get him to testify against the trump organization who has a trial coming up in l

the trump organization is the one least likely to go after donald trump personally.ocuments, certainly fulton county are looking that way. but the trump organization, i think it may be more limited in terms of who is fingered for this. >> renaldo, you heard congressman turner say if these secrets that were kept at mar-a-lago were so important, why did it take the justice department so long, to the point they even took the weekend off before going down there and getting these documents? how do you explain what happened? >> it seems to me, jake, there is extraordinary deference given to the former president. if reports are true, then the justice department actually provided a subpoena to the former president, the justice department actually had a meeting in mar-a-lago. if i haddockm mme -- had documen my home, i don't think i would have gotten a subpoena. so the portions unsealed will reveal these conversations and potential reasons why they were convincing the judge that this step was necessary. >> all right. thanks to both of you. >>> coming up, cnn is in afghanistan

there were no financial decisions of substance made in the trump organization whether they pertain tor compensation or anything else that involved money going out the door that donald trump did not sign off of. and word if not on peeper. and there were only two people in that organizations outside of the children who donald trump would say make sure both of them have signed off on this before i do it. one was allen weisselberg, the other was jason greenblatt. it's still strange to me that jason greenblatt's name hasn't surfaced at all, and general counsel in the trump organization. donald would always turn to allen and jason, or to -- get a stamp of approval on anything. i think jeff mcconney and matthew calamari's name, would also come up in the future. having said all of this, as andrew pointed out, the idea that allen weisselberg is not cooperating is true only in the narrowest sense. he now has to go to trial with he's over the coals now. this sort of sword hanging over his head that is found to be lying in as much as 15 years of and there might as well be a prison. cooperation ag

he has agreed to testify against the trump organization in its upcoming trial. weisselberg would be the star witness. he knows where the bodies are buried. and if trump's business is convicted, it could face devastating consequences. we know how harsh civil penalties can be. that's how trump's bogus charity and his bogus university got taken down. i expect trump and the new york attorney general will come to a settlement agreement because trump does not want his business organization to be looked at by a new york jury. >> meanwhile, sam, what can we expect to see where you are later today? >> right now, yoe say, the federal court behind me will become the center of the political universe for all intents and purposes, starting about 1:00 today. the expectations as you talk to legal experts like professor butler is it would be extremely unlikely if not borderline impossible that a judge in this case would unseal the affidavit knowing the doj has laid down a multitude of reasons why they do not want to see it happen. one, providing a road map of what the criminal in

allen weisselberg is perhaps more important in the trump organization than trump was. he was the man who ran sort of all the organizational and financial aspects of that company for at least the last 20 years. so, to take a guy out of like that, out of the organization, to have a guy like that plead guilty, is a huge blow to the operations of the company. to me, the striking thing is just how small -- the numbers are big but this is a big company and weisselberg got paid a lot of money and he put himself on the, line he got himself into this kind of trouble for a relatively small amount of money -- to me, it just shows how common lying and dishonesty are how normal that was within the company, that he would do it for such small stakes. >> and here's what's not normal. whenever somebody link to trump gets in trouble, he likes to say, they are a coffee boy, low-level, barely knew them. he cannot say that this time. allen weisselberg was part of the fabric of the trump family. >> that's right. like i said, you could take out that company, you could take out one of the tru

conspired with the former trump company to not pay taxes and now he will testify against the trump organization. >>> sue craig, "the new york times" reporter who has led the reporting on trump's finances is here in the studio tonight. >>> and the biden cabinet, dispatched to take the president's case to republicans and fox news. transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins us live. >>> but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already started the top of the republican field leading off the polls and found himself showing off his trump tower office to "the wall street journal." >> this is the shoe right "ther >> that is it? >> tom brady's super bowl helmet. this is mike tyson's belt. >> shaq's shoe. tom brady's super bowl helmet. mike tyson's belt. we have known for a while that donald trumpow likes to collect memorabilia. if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is a "new york times" today describing trump's time in office, how excited he

that's -- he built the trump organization, right? his ego is not going to permit him to let that go. so, of course it's going to hurt donald trump. no doubt about it. >> but is this his main business anymore. now that he's in the business of politics, is he still as tethered to the trump organization as he was when he was a real estate mobile here? >> yeah, you saw him get out of the car in new york just a couple of days ago waving at everybody. he sees that as his business and attack on that is an attack on him. >> george, why are so many people loyal to donald trump? >> it's something beyond my comprehension. it's something i see and i know but i can't explain. i was talking about the civil case there and the fact that the accountants had abandoned him, and that was going to make it harder for him to refinance the debt you just mentioned. and that civil case is still hanging over his head. >> why do you think that's the case that could bring him down? >> well, i don't -- i think the case that's going to bring him down is the documen

how meaningful is the difference between testifying against the trump organization and against testifying against trump? -- >> it's meaningful, but people are saying, how can he do that and not testify against trump? donald trump -- i've covered him for a number of years, his finances. he, up until the time he was [inaudible] you still saw, in every check, he is so intertwined -- testifying against donald trump. we are not really going to know how that goes until october, if it does go to trial, and it doesn't settle. i imagine what it is going to go is, yeah, donald trump was all for these perks. and said, take a car, and you can have one for your wife. these are some of the things that allen weisselberg is accused and pleaded in court today of dealing. but did donald trump, no is the question. maybe donald trump said do this, and assumed that the taxes were going to be paid on them. because all of these things are fine to get four employees. but the problem is, whether or not reported to the irs as compensations. so, i think if i am imagining that is how that is going to go, it's going

income tax on corporate benefits he received and shedding light on how this worked inside the trump organization. he's not expected to implicate former president donald trump or any of his adult children. they have not been accused of any wrongdoing. he's also not cooperating with the manhattan district attorney's ongoing investigation into the trump organization's finances, and in a sign of how committed both sides are to each other, the trump organization put out a statement today, calling weisselberg a fine and honorable man. and just to recap, he pled guilty to 15 felonies today and agreed to pay back about $2 million in back taxes, interest, and penalties and required to testify at that trial coming up in october. in ex-change, prosecutors agree that he would seven five months in jail. his lawyers say that could turn out to be 100 days. >> one of the items he admitted to is he did not pay taxes on some of the luxury perks he received. can you tell us more about that? >> reporter: yeah. so according to prosecutors and weisselberg's own plea today in the courthouse behind me, he received a co

, when we say donald trump was synonymous with it. this is not an organizationnald trump and a handful of people in a shoestring way with very few controls. i want to read to you the trump organization's reaction to today's deal with allen weisselberg and here's what they said. allen weisselberg, a long time trusted employee of the trump organization is a fine and honorable man who in the past four years has been harassed and persecuted and threatened in a quest to get president trump. in an effort to put this matter behind him, decided the best course of action for himself and his family was to plead guilty. the two trump companies that the manhattan d.a. has been targeting, however, will not be taking a plea for the simple reason that they have done nothing wrong. as a result we now look forward to having our day in court which quite interestingly has been scheduled for september 24th, around the time of the midterm elections. you mentioned the proximity to the midterm election. what do we imagine not just the political stakes of that trial is obviously not go

the trump organization is a small enough group. and who is the trump organization? ric trump and ivanka trump. they are the principal people behind the organization. when you are testifying against the organization, organizations don't go to jail for crimes, they are not people. people pay the penalties. who are the people who will pay ? if he lies, if weisselberg lies and testifying at the trial set for october 24th, not very long from now, if eli's, the judge who is going to send some is the same judge in the trial. he will know that he lied. he has said to him as part of the plea, i want you to understand that you could go to jail for 15 years. if you lie, this plea deal is over. it's done. there was something else missing from the plea agreement, which was that this was in full settlement of all other cases. it did not say that, which means that they may have something beyond the 15 counts he is already indicted on. some of those could be against one of his children, who got the benefits of this and also worked for the trump organization. so maybe to protect hims

the trump organization today, calling wes berg a fine and honorable man, and say, they look forward to going to trial in october. back to. >>> to journalist david k johnson, covering donald trump for more than three decades. earlier, he spoke with cnn with what's at stake for the former president when allen weisselberg takes the stand in october. here he is. >> donald trump and allen weisselberg are stuck together like two pieces of fused glass. you shatter one, you saddle the other. since you know about all the deceptive practices of the trump organization, when the trump organization goes on trial, now scheduled for just a few days before the fall elections, he can give a roadmap under examination. i don't expect them to go out of his way to cooperate. he may end up be treated as a hostile witness by the prosecution when they call him. >> former president trump or any member of his family has been accused of wrongdoing, weisselberg's case. if the trump organization is convicted, they could be required to pay back taxes and fines, but no one else will go to prison. >> all right. turni

the organization is trump and trump is the organization. from weisel burke to be making a statement he will make about the organization, he might as well be making it about trump personally. if i were donald trump, i would be petrified of the real books getting out in the hands of investigators. he showed bankers on one side and to the irs on the others. taylor: does any of this impact the midterm? joel: it will certainly help democrat mobilization, but democrats are mobilized not only because a president biden's agenda getting through congress but also because the egregious decision against women's rights by the supreme court. it will really have an impact on donald trump's decision-making. if the republican party has him as their nominee, they will be handcuffed with someone who may be indicted into the next election. taylor: really appreciate your time and perspective. thank you for chatting with us joel rubin , former u.s. secretary of state. i want to recap breaking news we mentioned all regarding qualcomm taking another run at the mar

almost 50 years, but for the last 21 years or so, he's been the chief financial officer for the trump organization, a very loyal figure within trump world here in new york and someone that knows the finance is intimately of the trump organization and that's what makes him such an important person when it comes to prosecutors wanting to investigate the trump organization finances. now why? so for a plea deal agreeing to plead guilty to 15 count indictment of texas asian where he pleaded guilty to was accepting among other things to luxury cars, an apartment in new york, and also tuition exclusive private schools for a couple of his granddaughter's all as part of his compensation package while working for the trump organization. but the problem is he did not report that to the tax authority in the u. s. and that is the definition of tax fraud. is the tune of about $1700000.00. so this deal essentially is he's going to have to pay back about $2000000.00. he's going to spend anywhere between 3 to 10 months in jail. we'll get more clarification on that. weeks of high temperatures and the flow. no rainf

it's going make it impossible for the trump organization to defend itself. but at the same time, it's something of a victory for donald trump because allen weisselberg, he went back 40 years, as you say. he knows where all the bodies are buried. the whole point of this case was really to get get allen weisselberg to flip against donald trump on things of much greater significance, and much greater financial amounts involving the valuation of real estate, insurance, potential insurance fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud. and he clearly refused to cooperate. and that's why we saw the resignation of two ranking very high, very prominent, two of the best criminal lawyers, former prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers in the city, mark pomeranz and carrie dunn resigned because of the new incoming manhattan d.a.'s' fusel to move forward with the case. and presumably the issue is whether you move forward with the case without the insider witness allen weisselberg. weisselberg stood them down. at the same time, i don't think any of us would want to spend five months in r

he was looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, either to receive loans from the bank or to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. trump appeared for deposition with the attorney general james during which he pleaded the fifth, roughly 440 times. now there's a related criminal investigation into the trump organization's finances. led by manhattan, district attorney alvin bragg. it was for this investigation this week that the trump organization's chief financial officer, allen weisselberg pleaded guilty to more than a dozen accounts that were related to his failure to pay worth one point $7 million in taxes. meanwhile, down in, georgia grandeur is closing in on key trump allies. and their roles in the attempt to overturn the states results from the 2020 presidential election. grandeur is specifically investigating the trump campaign's attempts, to interfere in the states election including the apparent scheme to send fake electors to washington d.c.. and remember donald trump's infamous phone call to georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger. ur

against the trump organization over the trump family. and she would meet a lower burden of proof. would only have to prove that her case b five preponderance of the evidence. and she got a lot of traction, because donald trump pled the fifth amendment, 440 times. and in a civil case, they can use that to infer facts against him and against the trump organization. >> john dean, when you think about how significant this nurses and if it is? >> i was a little surprised. i thought they would squeeze him a little harder. five months, i think he probably figures that he can do that standing on his hands. so he is willing to go and get it behind him. i assume he thinks that trump will take care of it. that it is a fair deal and had been taking care of it. so he is not going to -- if you will. i don't know if they're going to press that cause harder in the criminal court. i think george is right on on the civil case. is dynamite and going to hurt trump a lot. probably financially much more than any criminal court will do. >> it seems like it's over. >> gloria, in terms of rudy giuliani, t

so give the lawyers more star witness if you will, for the trial related to these, the trump organization finances and he will have to testify. he will not have to cooperate beyond that. with investigator, should they jer, pritchard, decide to pursue a more broader investigation into donald trump himself and gave just a very quick one. if i can tell us about these media requests about on the ceiling, the affidavit concerning the, the search at my legal yeah, this is a totally separate case or multiple investigations going on here. this was last week when f. b, i agents searched mar lago, trump's home in florida. media organizations have gone to a judge asking the judge to unseal the affidavit. that would reveal more information on why the f b. i was wanting to to search tramps, home. they feel it's important for that information to get out a judge ruling within the last few minutes saying they will think about it. they think that some of it could be released to the public, but heavily redacted meaning blacked out key parts of it. but we'll have to wait and see on that a judge indicating t

he was the money man who ran the books for the trump organization at the time.timony will be quite damaging to the trump organization when they go the trial late october. >> tom winter live for us there in manhattan. thank you. >>> just in the last hour, the man indicted for attacking author salman rushdie was in court. ron allen is joining us with more on the case. what do we know about the charges, what's next and any news about rushdie's recovery? >> the charges are second degree murder and assault. he's 24 years old from new jersey. what we don't know is why he allegedly did this. there was some sense of that in an interview he did with the "new york post" a couple of days ago where he said things like he didn't like this person, rushdie. he is someone who has attacked islam. he said he did not think that rushdie would survive the attack and he said that he respects iran's religious leaders, but didn't say whether or not he was inspired by the spot wa issued in iran from 30 years ago to kill rushdie -- which some in the muslim world feel is an insult to the

more than one court case at a time, there is this, the former chief financial officer from the trump organization has pleaded guilty to a tax fraud scheme and as part of a deal he has agreed to testify against trump's real estate company at trial. >> reporter: long time chief financial officer of the trump organization allen weisselberg pleaded guilty to 15 felonies admitting to his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. weisselberg has agreed to testify against the trump organization, a company's worked at for more than 40 years. the trump organization goes to trial in october and the manhattan district attorney has said that weisselberg's testimony will be invaluable. also as part of this deal, weisselberg has agreed to pay nearly $2 million in back taxes, interests and penalties and in exchange he will receive a five month sentence in jail. now, weisselberg will not implicate the former president at the trial. he also is not cooperating with the manhattan district attorney's long running investigation into the trump organization's finances. the trump organization put out a statement today ca

the trump organization's longtime cfo and one of donald trump's most trusted associates agreeing to testify against the company, but not trump himself. >>> nfl quarterback deshaun watson suspended 11 games and fined $5 million, the largest in league history, after two dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct. >>> illegal crossings at the southern border nearing an all-time high. the u.s. is on track to arrest 2 million migrants this year. our cameras are at the southern border as groups of migrants cross the rio grande, many intercepted by border patrol officers. texas governor greg abbott pressed about bussing thousands of asylum seekers to new york city and washington, d.c. >>> overseas tonight, russia threatens to switch off europe's largest nuclear power plant. president zelenskyy warns the world is on the verge of a nuclear disaster. >>> back here at home, police release images of a chaotic scene on the streets of las vegas. a violent carjacking chase and shootout. officers firing through the windshield. dash cam video shows the suspect intentionally ramming a police k-9 vehicle. >

trump's legal team will be in the courtroom making arguments. for the most part, this is between the doj and the media organizations pushing to get it released. >>sica, thank you for kicking us off. let's get insights now from elliott williams. so elliott, let's just focus on the issues at hand and then the trump question. the justice department says keep it secret, the media organizations say it's relevant because of the public interest to make it public. what is the bar, the legal bar that the media organizations need to cross? >> focus on the words "in the public interest." look, our constitution guarantees that criminal procedures are open and public. affidavits in support of search warrants are kind of an exception to that, because number one, we give prosecutors the ability to conduct their cases without jeopardizing evidence or people's safety. now, that can be lifted if a judge finds that it would be in the public interest to do so. that's an open question, both sides will argue about it. courts tend to lean with prosecutors when they say this will mess up our investigative techniques. i have a hard time believing this will be released.

charges of fraud and, you know, insurance fraud or tax are fraud or bank fraud against the trump organization or the trump family, and she would meet a lower burden of proof. she'd only have to prove, you know, her case be by preponderance of the evidence, and she nogot a lot of traction this week because donald trump pled the fifth amendment 440 times, and in a civil case they can use that to infer facts against him and the trump organization. >> what do you think about how significant this weisselberg information is if it is? >> i was a little surprised. i thought they'd squeeze him a little harder. five months, i think he probably figures he can do that standing on his hands, so he's willing to go and get it behind him. i assume he thinks that trump will take care of him, that it's a fair deal, he has been taking care of him, so he's not going to be the rap if you will. you know, i don't know if they're going to press that cause harder in the criminal court. i think fgeorgia's right on the in the civil case is dynamite, and it's going to hurt trump a lot, probably financially much more tha

plus, troll for the trump organization. former cfo allen weisselberg pleads guilty. and then a major win for abortion rights and michigan, as the states attorney general dana nessel is here to break on the ruling. i am ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. >> half truths, badges, disinformation and flat out lies continue to pour out of trump world this week, as the red continues to scramble to try to get their stories straight following the fbi search on trump's home. in just a few days, the official maga line says there was no cause for a search and that the fbi planted classified materials to u.s., there was classified materials, but trump somehow telepathically the classified them. look, each lie is more absurd and more cartoonish than the one before it. quite honestly, it is even more dangerous because the lies are actually turning into threats. those threats are beginning to turn to real world consequences. in fact, just last week, the fbi and the agents issued a joint bulletin warning that threats to federal law enforcement have spike since the mar-a-lago search.

member of the trump family, but the trump organization. ave no indication at all that he is going to provide any sort of testimony directly against the former president or his children, don junior, eric trump or ivanka trump. right now, this appears to be very narrowly focused. it resolves the upcoming legal case against weisselberg. two, it establishes a penalty for him. he is willing to go to jail for the former president, presumably jail time would have been off the table if he had something to provide and if he did cooperate with prosecutors. third, it appears at this point he will provide some testimony against the trump organization when there's the trial against that organization. not all the charges are the same between the two. the trump organization faces some different charges. he will speak to some of that. that's all that weisselberg. we do not expect anything in terms of cooperation. could other members of the organization be on the hook? that's something we will look out for. this does end a significant chapter in this invest

he will testify as a witness against the trump organization. he worked there more than 40 years. at stake for trump when weisselberg takes the stand in october? >> well, donald trump and allen weisselberg are stuck together like two pieces of fused glass. you shatter one, you're going to shatter the other. and since he knows about all the deceptive practices of the trump organization, when the trump organization goes on trial, now scheduled for just a few days before the fall elections, he can give a road map under examination. now, i don't expect him to go out of his way to cooperate. he may even be treated as a hostile witness by the prosecution when they call him. >> and he's -- and i should be clear here. the requirement is that he's going to appear as a witness. you're pointing out that could be hostile. that's not the same as cooperating and flipping. in fact he is not doing that. over and over again we've heard from people in trump's orbit what you describe as diffused glass. listen to this. >> it's been his life. he's always -- he's always been saved by donald. >> he know

the trump organization is the trump family. when you say they have committed a crime what you're saying is a trump trump family committed the crime. this does not have anything to do with his presidency directly but i think it is one more piece of the legal puzzle that he is facing former president. there is this new york investigation, this george investigation of election manipulation basically going on down there, there is the january 6 investigation. this secret document investigation. so many different legal issues involving the former president that at some point you wonder -- whether any of them weigh him down politically. yamiche: and you bring up the january 6 investigation p the other news was that former vice president mike pence said he may consider testifying before the committee. there are some who will say you really need to be sort of cautious about this because he did really temper what he was saying but i wonder what you make of the fact that the vice president, that he might come before this committee that is

>> has the trump organization responded? no bad blood between weisselberg and the trump organization, despite his guilty plea today. they put out a statement calling him, a fine and honorable man, saying that he was threatened and unfairly prosecuted. the trump organization also said that it will not plead guilty to the charges it is facing, ten counts, and said that they will go to trial in october. anderson? >> carrots gonell, appreciated. next, an exclusive new cnn reporting on the claim the former president made that he can declassify by standing order anything he took out of the oval office. more on that ahead. the former president's my grandma never mentioned this, but her first job was working at a five and dime, when she was only 16 years old. it's all right there in the census. see where a few details can lead with the 1950 census on ancestry. ♪(music: dance! by christian a medice, elisha noll)♪ ♪ are you ready? ♪ ♪ ahh yeah ♪ ♪ you're going out tonight ♪ ♪ dance ♪ ♪ get with the groove and ♪ ♪ dance ♪ ♪ get up and

did not just work for the trump organization for a few years, he worked for donald trump, worked with fred trump, has been with his family for decades and is expected to plead guilty tomorrow. even if he does not directly implicate donald trump himself, trump has to have signed every check and approved everything. so ultimately, isn't donald trump going to be responsible if laws were broken? for years he comingled his personal finances and his business finances. >> this i think is the sleeper investigation. everybody sort of wrote this off when they heard that mark pomerantz and carrie done, lead prosecutors on the matter ahead resigned. and people thought that this case was going nowhere. this is going to be a really interesting plea. weisselberg gets out of this five month term. he kept his exposure. but the government here, the manhattan da office gets quite a lot. because as you said, he is pleading to actually the indictment. 15 counts. a massive tax scheme. and it wasn't for just weisselberg, this was a scheme run by the trump organization. where it is alleged that the trump org

so he directly implicated the trump organization in his guilty plea today. he spoke in very hushed tones, answering the judge's questions as he ran through the elements of each of these 15 counts. just saying repeatedly yes, your honor. he did not give any other statements, but the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg calling this today -- calling out allen weisselberg's testimony today saying he directly implicates the trump organization, saying this is invaluable testimony that they can use against the former president's company at trial. that trial goes -- that begins in october. and weisselberg is required to testify against the trump organization where he's worked for more than 40 years. kate? >> kara, thank you so much for that. joining me now for more, cnn legal analyst and former prosecutor paul callan, cnn law enforcement analyst peter lacotta, and cnn's senior political analyst nia malika henderson. first with weisselberg, he pleads guilty. the point of how this -- the focus on weisselberg all along is to try to get him to cooperate in a broader

and it's part of their investigation into the trump organization's business dealings. hough, what does this mean for the investigation that the former president didn't answer any of those questions? >> so, first, any good defense attorney would have advised trump to take the fifth because the manhattan district attorney is conducting a parallel investigation of the trump organization. and the da said he is closely watching what the new york attorney general finds. it's quite common when politicians are under criminal investigation. the defense attorney says, you gotta take the fifth. but the political advisers say, man, you can't do that. and here, trump, i think, appropriately, went with his defense team. but in the civil investigation, like the new york attorney general is conducting, the fact that he took the fifth can be used by the jury to infer that he's guilty. that has the answers, are reliable, that this answer would incriminate him. so i think this will face a settlement, in part, charles, because donald trump does not want to go in front of a new york jury. >

a former trump organization c f o is expected to plead guilty to tax violations. we're going break down the details in just a few minutes. make sure you stick around. a florida judge has declared a state law that restricts conversations on race in business, education as unconstitutional. the ruling came in a case where a florida business claims it's free. speech rights are reduced because the law infringes on company training programs which stress diversity and inclusion. the case challenges governor ron desantis stop woke at which involves critical race theory and idea that racism is systematic in us institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society. well, the former chief financial officer for the trump organization has pleaded guilty to tax violation. allen weisselberg appeared in a federal courtroom in new york thursday to answer to charges of accepting more than 1.7 million dollars and an tax pay from the trump organization in exchange for the plea, weisselberg will have to testify at the trump organization's trial this fall on illegal business

the trump organization called weisselberg a, quote, fine and honorable man, claiming he was harassed,ersecuted and threatened in a politically motivated prosecution. on twitter, a trump spokesman said the american public should be permitted to see the whole mar-a-lago affidavit without sections blacked out. norah? >> catherine herridge with a lot of news today, thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> today federal health officials announced a major boost to the country's supply of the monkeypox vaccine amid a surge in new cases. cases are up more than 30% in the last week to more than 13,500. cbs' tanya rivero has the new details. >> reporter: tonight the white house says an additional 1.8 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be available starting monday as cases of monkeypox are up over 30% from just a week ago. >> thanks for coming in. >> thank you, sir. >> reporter: and yet cdc director dr. rochelle walensky admits the government is still studying the vaccine's efficacy. >> to be clear, we're learning how well these vaccines work against monkeypox and in this specific outbreak. >>

if they are found guilty by a jury, the trump organization becomes a felon, just has almost broke has become a felon. in a concrete way, that may scare off banks and counter parties and business interests. donald trump doesn't seem to have taken a lot of interest in his hotels and golf courses as an active business magnate. but nevertheless, this will hurt his family business. in terms of hitting trumped the man, no. it does seem that that part of this investigation is over. >> what doesn't mean -- i mean, he has to cooperate and testify against the organ, not the individual. it seems to me and the other legal analysts suffered say this, if he's a cfo he's testifying against the war, it's gonna be a tough wrap for them to beat. i mean it's possible but -- >> i mean, there was a crime here, there's a mountain of documentary evidence, some of it is very interesting. we are talking about a ledger where donald trump was personally, out of his personal bank account, paying to private school tuition for ellen while so barracks education signing the checks. this wasn't the allocation today.

the trump organization called weisselberg a "fine and honorable man," claiming he was harassed, persecuted, and threatened, in a politically- motivated prosecution. on twitter, a trump spokesman said the american public should be permitted to see the whole mar-a-lago affidavit without sections blacked out. norah. >> o'donnell: catherine herridge with a lot of news today. thank you. well, today, federal health officials announced a major boost to the country's supply of the monkeypox vaccine, amid a surges of new cases. cases are up more than 30% in the last week, to over 14,000. cbs's tanya rivero has the new details. >> reporter: tonight, the white house says an additional 1.8 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be available starting monday, as cases of monkeypox are up over 30% from just a week ago. >> thanks for coming in. >> thank you, sir. >> reporter: and yet c.d.c. director dr. rochelle walensky admits the government is still studying the vaccine's efficacy. >> to be clear, we're learning how well these vaccines work against monkeypox, and in this specific outbreak. >> repor

we're looking at the trump organization and members of the trump organization engaging in financial fraud by inflating the value of properties in order to get favorable loans and favorable tax treatment by having higher deductions on the now, obviously. >> gettingor the former president, the founder of trump organization getting details from him about what he understood when we signed certain documents. what people said to him and what he said to other people would be key. but i think this is something that maybe we're not focusing on enough. you can if this case, if there's enough evidence to bring a civil case in federal court, you can use the fact that he invoked his 5th amendment privilege as and negative inference. you can allow the jury to basically question what does he have to hide? why was he signed it? and you would think in a case like the evidence really is the evidence. it's the papers. it's the documents that show. >> what the values of those assets were, what he claimed on taxes. the values were versus what he. >> claim banks with. the value was when he's trying to get loan