weisselberg is a key character in trump world, he worked for the organization fo nearly 50 years. the previous manhattan da, c vance, was scrutinizin weisselberg in connection to fraud claims levied at trump and his organization by none other than michael cohen and that vast criminal probe the one started by cy vance, that appears to still be open. the new york times reported in february, prosecutors were dangling more charges agains allen weisselberg in an effort to get him to cooperate in the hush money payments case that's the one alvin bragg issued an indictment for yesterday. it is important to remember, this larger fraud investigatio is arguably a broader and more consequential investigatio than the hush money payments case it involves allegations that trump and his business inflate and deflated assets in order t get more favorable insurance and mortgage rates so, weisselberg's potentia criminal exposure here is very much alive issue as it was first reported right here on the show, with wnbc, weisselberg has parted way with the lawyers who represented him during the trump or

weisselberg and mr. mcconnie worked at your direction and inflate asset valuations on the statement of financial condition by employing false and misleading assumptions, is that correct? >> same answer >> you heard allen weisselberg mentioned there, donald trump's long time and now former chief financial officer of the trump organization mr. weisselberg is currently in prison over at rikers island for his involvement in the trump organization tax fraud scheme, and he's scheduled to be released in just six days from now. we know mr. weisselberg recently changed up his legal team after reports the manhattan d.a. office might be looking to get weisselberg into its fraud case by pressuring him with more charges and prison time. lutesha james seeks to shutdown at least some of trump's businesses it could be catastrophic for trump. the suit is expected to go to trial later in october and while this is a civil trial, over on the criminal side manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is still looking into some of

weisselberg and mr. mcconney worked at you direction and -- followed your instructions t inflate asset valuations on statement of financial condition by employing false and misleading - assumptions. is that correct? >> same answer >> you heard allen weisselberg mention there, donald trump' longtime and now former chie financial officer of the trump organization mr. weisselberg is currently imprisoned over at riker island for his involvement i the trump organization's tax fraud's scheme, and he's scheduled to be released i just six days from now we know that mr. weisselberg recently changed up his lega team after reports that th manhattan d. a.'s office may b looking to get weisselberg's cooperation in its fraud cas by pressuring weisselberg with potentially more charges and more prison time now, laetitia james lawsui seeks to shut down at leas some of trump's businesses it could be catastrophic for trump. the suit is expected to go t trial later in october and while this is a civil trial, over on the cri

allen weisselberg i allen weisselberg we knew from the work had been done and the reporting that had been done was donald trump's right hand man. you saw him as of a brooding omnipresence in many of the photographs of donald trump. we knew he had worked not only for donald trump for decades but had worked for trump's father, fred trump, for a long time. it was clear from the investigation that had been done that weisselberg knew he was the money guy in the organization to the extent there were financial crimes that we were investigating weisselberg would have to know about them. it's not a huge organization. it is run by a small group of trusted employees, many of whom had been with for decades. weisselberg perhaps being one of the oldest, most longstanding employees. and so as we started at crimes involving the financial control system, the company, the financial statements, what expenses were paid, how they were documented. allen weisselberg had designed the accounting system. everybody in the accounting system reported up to him, and it was obvious that he was going to be somebody

weisselberg doesn't want to go back, so he may be open toe a deal if d.a.gg feels like he needs weisselberg's testimony in his prosecution of druonald tru. >> are you surprised he's already a free man he didn't do much time. >> you know, it's interesting. he actually got a good deal in his first trial, and what's really interesting now is that defense attorney also macy have been interested in a deal so weisselberg doesn't have to go back to rikers, but ana, the trump organization reportedly is paying weisselberg's legal expenses and weisselberg just switched to a new defense attorney who is a trump loyalist >> okay, we'll see what happens. let me pivot slightly because there could be some fireworks today between manhattan d.a. alvin bragg and republican congressman jim jordan jordan's been trying to force a former prosecutor from the d.a.'s office to testify, and there's a hearing today that could decide whether that will happen of course, bragg's office has been trying to block his testimony. is there any precedent that can give us a hint as to how this m

. >> remember, he watched what happened to his cfo, allan weisselberg. he saw allen when solberg walk in front of the cameras, i think it or fight him. i don't think he wants the sam for himself. >> tim, it is simone sanders townsend we have talked a lot about jus what we know about this case thus far what we do know is that th judge in this case is the same judge that presided over the allen weisselberg case, judg marchand donald trump has attacked th judge online and today we hear the former district attorney vance on this network, on meet the press this morning, talk about the caution that donal trump and his lawyers should heed in attacking the a brag and the judge. what do you think the, i'm jus the conversation in trump worl like - what do you think they wil tell in that >> i think they were advisin -- -- that judge ruled, i think th weisselberg courtroom, with strong and steady fist and i think you will see tha again in this case but again, donald trump and th deposition, donald trump in th courtroom, donald trump in public, when he is under the t

to the weisselberg point, didn't know this, katie, whe the reverend said it could b weisselberg as thatou might if you are sticking out the court -- >> yeah. because he isn't in custod defendant at rikers. i will point out something reporting has all been tha weisselberg's new lawyer i still getting paid by the trum organization but, listen. during the trump organizatio criminal trier - who has this trump indictmen is presiding over, the trump organization blamed weisselber for everything but critically, weisselberg is still on five-year support patient after he gets into custody. yes it continue to cooperate with the prosecutor. so it is not like he does this time at rikers and he is jus sitting there reporting to his wealthy probation officer. he has an affirmativ obligation to continue t cooperate to be in compliance. kind of speaks to what w talked about with jen psak lost block, this idea that a superseding indictment could come and there could still b more to come what comes on tuesday may no be the end all or be all about what donald trump sees >> i think it is telling - you vote

and its longtime finance chief allen weisselberg, which ended with weisselberg's guilty plea under the deal. he received a 5 month jail sentence in exchange for agreeing to testify against the trump organization. mister trump has claimed that the or sean hate him. but one attorney we spoke to disagrees. just mercy on is known to be a judge with an even temperament. he's a thoughtful judge. he knows the law, although trump may say he thinks that this judge hates him. >> there's no evidence or no prior history in the record to show that judge marshawn has any animus, the donald trump. in fact, during the weisselberg trial, he appeared to be a pretty fair judge. >> judge sean immigrated from colombia as a 6 year-old. he grew up in new york city and earned a law degree in 1994. he worked in the state attorney general's office. before then mayor michael bloomberg appointed him as a family court judge. that was in 2006, 3 years later he was assigned to the new york supreme court. stay with us here on kron four's. we continue our coverage of former president trump's arraignment. scan the qr c

they're not going to pick him -- they did not railroad weisselberg into that plea.k it because weisselberg did not want to flip on trump. that is how that went down. this is our normal process -- i can't say normal because it is not normal to charge former presidents but to the extent that trump is being treated like a normal defendant, this is what normal defendants face all the time and quite frankly, i bet a lot of other defendants would love to be arraigned and fly back to the golf clubs and give a press conference. they are already taking advantage of the system and the way powerful white rich man can. the assignment process is against him is just not true. amy: it is interesting the attack on juan merchen because it reminds you of another judge, judge curiel when president when trump was running for president the first time. judge curiel was a judge overseeing the case against trump diversity in san diego. -- university in san diego. trump called him a hater who is being unfair to him because the judge is hispanic and trump was building a wall. u put that alto

, he believes this conversation where alle weisselberg is, there is the falsification of the recordsheir legal problems the new york times is not only -- a lot of tax information we can see that that, whatever happened, michael cohen didn't get issued a ten 9 miscellaneous. which would be the form that w would be looking for in the ta records. and that is just a simple, her is a legal fee and we ar paying you, michael cohen has w to salaried employee of th trump organization he never got a ten 99. we can't see it in a very clea look but allen weisselberg said well, maybe we should bury i over at, you know, this golf course or maybe put it ove here or sell a membership to mar-a-lago this is according to michael cohen. but it is somewhere in there and i think alvin bragg's gonn be able to walk us through tha if the indictment comes down w are able to read it. >> i'm so glad you brought tha up go ahead, really quickly >> i was just gonna say, you know, we also need to remember that trump grossed up th repayments to michael cohen so that he could net the proper amount after taxes so ther

i potentially more of a hire lying had he read the te leaves on where alle weisselberg maybe, terms of hi -- >> he clearly shows a valuable witness against donald trump and he has now testified at th trial, with the trum organization, and he was beneficial to the prosecutio but also beneficial to the defense. sophie has a lawyer that sam mccain's and speaking to the d.a.'s office that he's no gonna cooperate. >> yeah, but the d.a.'s office would very much like him t cooperate. >> exactly, and we don't kno whether or not they have other charges they may have over his head so not clear about that. if they, do that could be reason to have them consider that maybe he might want t cooperate. >> and not spend the rest of his earthly years in jail. >> he 75 years old, and it's not fun to be incarcerated >> right, and it's not a understatement, right? we know dash many case the d.a bragg presented, certainly implicates allen weisselberg it does not -- i'm not saying, to say, an maybe that catherine christian, thank you for time and expertise is, always great to see you. >> we have a lot mor

they are waiting to see what allen weisselberg does, an maybe what five months a rikers does. and we're also then lookin forward to october, where we have a trial coming up, th civil trial on the issue o valuations that's where they inflat assets when they want to get a loan, and when they are goin to the tax man, they're no really worth a lot >> and he did that on ever possible property you coul even think of. >> back decades. >> my goodness phil, donald trump says thes indictments will not push hi out of the 2024 race but former arkansas governor republican governor as hutchinson, said trump shoul drop out does it seem like there's more and more republicans quietly saying, okay dude, it's over even if they're not saying i publicly >> well, other than hutchinson almost no republican is saying that publicly. and certainly in private, they wish trump would turn a page would not run, would allow for a new generation that doesn' have this kind of baggage to lead the party in 2024 and yet, this is where the voters in the republican party at least as of today, are. the polls consis

weisselberg's attorney eve went as far as pace the judg as quote, well prepared and man who kept hisasn't stopped trump fro attacking merchan online. trum claims that judge, quote, hate him. to be clear, folks, merchan was randomly selecte for the trump cases. joining m now to discuss this and more i melissa murray, professor of law and why you, and msnbc contributor. melissa, what mor can you tell us about judg merchan's reputation in th legal community? what are th legal street saying about him? >> well, out here in these streets, simone, he's known as a street shooter, someone wh does not bear grudges, not a vindictive. so, he's not likel to care about these twitte rant or these truth social run of the former president. he' someone who is known as playin it really fair, straight dow the middle, he's someone who controls his courtroom and that's going to be criticall important here because this is going to be something of a circus. it is not likely tha this trial, and it is likely t be a trial, because it i unlikely that this president will plead guilty at any point but when there

rikers, after serving roughl four months for his role on decade long tax fraud scheme it still weisselberg, appear to remain lawyer to loyal to mr. trump, but he's the kind o witness, that if flipped for the prosecution, could secur once and for all accountability for donal trump. and that is accountability with a capital a joining us now is catherin christian, a former specia assistant d a in the manhattan d. a.'s office catherine, thanks so much fo being here >> my pleasure >> so, first let's talk abou what's happening with th testimony, the subpoena of mar pomerantz. >> well, chairman jordan had a big victory today. it's been appealed the judge wrote a very biting, 25-page decision denying, d. a. bragg's motio to quash a subpoena. in fact, she said that this wa a lawsuit dressed up, really - it's really a motion to quas the subpoena, and it's not a lawsuit. she also critique mr. bags bragg's lawyers for no following court procedure. she took about 18 excerpts fro mark pomerantz's book, excerpt that shows that he critique th hush money investigation the one that is now been indicted in f

and not being able to essentially flip allen weisselberg has held them back from doing the larger case we ran out of time, but i wanted to ask you about the judge who oversaw the previous trial in relation to the trump organization and allen weisselberg. so it will be interesting to see how this unfolds on tuesday. we look forward to your show today, chuck. thank you for that preview. >> thanks, kira. >> join chuck for this morning's "meet the press." we'll have that interview with former manhattan d.a. cy vance and he will have an interview with the ncaa president charlie baker about allowing college athletes to make money off their name, image and likeness. "meet the press" is right after this news cast. >>> coming up in 30 minutes, we'll talk to larry gerston and take a deeper look at the possible charges against former president donald trump, and his chances of creating a successful presidential campaign. >>> as more americans buy preowned cars, more scammers are pulling out an old trick to try to get more money. it's called odometer fraud, and it's on the rise. that's a fraud whic

and it was a long trip for people like weisselberg. he couldn't keep his money out of rikers.lot of people that, later he tried to use th pardon power, manafort went to prison we know that bannon he went through a run on thi the other night, rachel. so - the ponds are getting in trouble, and some of the other players on the border in trouble. then he can amass this now this week, yeah, i think h continues to strip it away no, we're not documenting, we're not trying to cover ou arms race to another january 6th. and yet we are accuratel covering that he threatene this, he warned this, enough that he got in trouble today but he doesn't have that he doesn't have that support partly because he has gotten s many people in so much trouble and now, what is the ultimat indignity, whether he is convicted or not, he i presumed innocent. everyone can see, protect you? he can't even protect himself. >> that's right. at the end of the day, you can talk about this in legal terms to, but at the end of the day think that if you had to bet right now about where this i going to go, this is going

allen weisselberg really the linchpin lin of this gets out of rikers trump was not happy with the counsels had thus far. he's now being represented by a different trump paid for lawyer, which is to say in plain english the lawyer he's retained is being paid for by the trump organization they're clearly worried about weisselberg being pressured to testify in future or ongoing investigations so i think, you know, there's a statute of limitations piece here i think dictates some of the timing, right, of this piece of trump's wrongdoing. but the broader fraud that may have taken place, the bigger cy vance, the case with its origins at cy vance's office, that may not be over with the stewardship of alvin bragg, and i think that, you know, the key players in this are maybe not done testifying >> i think the thing in conflict over and over again and i think alvin bragg made two points that stuck in my head and informed how we cover this moving forward. one, we bring cases like this all the time, but to your point trump is such a different animal he is both corrupt and cheap when you read through

and it's long time finance chief allen weisselberg, which ended with weisselberg's guilty plea under the deal. he received a 5 month jail sentence in exchange for agreeing to testify against the trump organization. now, former president trump has claimed that the judge, quote, hates him. but one attorney that we spoke to disagrees. just mercy on is known to be a judge with an even temperament. he's a thoughtful judge. he knows the law, although trump may say he thinks that this judge hates him. >> there's no evidence or no prior history in the record to show that judge marshawn has any animus, the donald trump, in fact, during the weisselberg trial, he appeared to be a pretty fair judge. the judge emigrated from colombia as a 6 year-old grew up in new york city and earned a law degree from hofstra. 1994. he worked in the state attorney general's office before. >> then mayor michael bloomberg appointed him as a family court judge in 2006, 3 years later, he was assigned to the new york supreme court. now, let's take a closer look at the pattern of payments trump allegedly made one of t

weisselberg newly released from rikers, he has counsel at least what we're hearing being reported is this counsel is potentially more of a hard line counsel enterms of not playing ball with prosecutors. this counsel is paid for by the trump organization as his previous counsel was how do you read the tea leaves on where allen weisselberg may be in his utility as a future witness. >> he's clearly if he chose a valuable witness against donald trump, and he's now testified at the trial of the trump organization and he was beneficial to the prosecution but also beneficial to the defense. so if he has a lawyer who was saying my client is not speaking to the d.a.'s office, then he's not going to cooperate >> but the d.a.'s office would very much like him to cooperate. >> exactly and we don't know whether or not they have other charges they may have over his head, so we're not clear about that and if they do, that could be a reason to have him consider he might want to cooperate. >> and not spend the rest of his years in jail. >> yeah, he's 75 years old and it's not fun to be incarcerated.

have here in order to prove this agreement or scheme is they talked about the cfo, that's allen weisselbergthe controller, they talk supervisor, already testified or given information to the district attorney's office, and when you look at the allegations concerning weisselberg, he's either a target or a witness. >> norah: really interesting. robert costa, along with this indictment, there was a 13-page statement of fact filled with some really interesting details, and the timeline is important. >> reporter: norah, when you read this statement of fact, there is another piece of history right here, that in 2017, trump's first year in the presidency, he was cutting checks to michael cohen in the oval office, so during his first year in office, while he was dealing with immense national security challenges, and all of these other major issues, he's also the statement of facts says and this indictment says, at the center of a criminal scheme, toe michael cohen to make these payments, to stay quiet. it is perhaps the closest criminality has come to this u.s. presidency since richard nixon. >> no

2022 guilty plea for avoiding taxes on big dollar job perks under that deal, weisselberg got a 5 month jail sentence in exchange for agreeing to testify against trump's company. former trump white house strategist steve bannon is also on where chen stock it charged with tricking donors who gave money to build a u.s. border wall. trump's presidential pardon stops the federal prosecution. in that case, the former president has already gone on the offensive against judge claiming he quote, railroaded weisselberg into a plea and acted viciously in the trump organization case. and we'll have more on trump's arraignment tomorrow morning with live reports from new york city. starting at 04:30am. >> the former president is expected to be in court at 2.15 eastern time. that's 11:15am, in the morning. our time tomorrow. we'll have reaction and the aftermath on our newscast at noon, 3 o'clock and throughout the evening. and you can stay up to date online at kron 4 dot com and on our app. another big story we're following tonight. the street drug known as tranq. >> has taken the life of a another

and asked cohen and weisselberg to find a way to make the payment. the final part of the scheme, prosecutors say trump arranged to reimburse cohen for the payoff he made on trump's behalf saying cohen submitted ten similar monthly invoices by email to the trump organization for the remaining months in 2017 each invoice falsely stated that it was being submitted pursuant to the retainer agreement and falsely requestedpayment for services rendered for a month of 2017 well, in fact, there was no such retainer agreement, and lawyer a, cohen, was not being paid for services rendered in any month of 2017. after the twice impeached former president's arraignment, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg addressed reporters about the importance of pursuing the case against trump >> under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you ar

w weisselberg is facing charges on another issue with insurance fraud. whether or not by the time this gets to trial, whether there's enough pressure brought on him, he could be a witness if it comes to trial >> i think the quote is going back to alan and figure it out would that be admitted >> i didn't know -- i'm not -- >> he says can't you pay cash? he's really involved [ laughter ] >> do it in 20s and 10s. [ laughter ] >> when you're the ceo, the head of a crime family, of course your defense is, i don't bother with the little details, whatever they're doing here the problem is this is a small organization this is not exxon mobil or jpmorgan this is a small outfit they'll have witnesses up one side down and the other that you couldn't move without him knowing and approving. that won't help. if you thought that donald trump didn't know anything about this, and you did it behind your back, why would you make a tape recording of him what are you talking about this is the first time i've ever heard it does anyone listening if you heard donald trump sayin

. >> the judge that he's als going to face here is the same one that presided over allen weisselberghe trum organization so, do you think trump will tr to get rid of that judge >> i'm sure he's going to tr to do everything he can. i think we've seen thi playbook every time. >> running the clock >> over the last 70 years, since he's been pretty young and involved in his father's empire, he's been involved i this i don't think we're gonna see break-in character here. >> [laughter someone who knows his characte well, you, phil rucker, yo wrote the book a very stable genius a book all about the inner workers of donald trump's mind take us to mar-a-lago righ now. apparently, he has raised $4 million in the last 24 hours while he's preparing for thi indictment who in the world is he raising that money from? and what do you think is going on down there? where they really caught off guard, and are scrambling now? >> you know, stephanie, they'v been preparing for thi indictment they were surprised, certainly that it happened on thursday but they have been preparing for this, in fact, trump pr

organization he presided over the trial of the trump organization and that guilty plea for alan weisselberg so there's a history here, but everyone has described him as a fair and impartial he runs a tight ship i'm told in his courtroom. as for whether in fact he will impose a gag order, i think that is a high threshold for somebody who is seeking public office running to be the next president of the united states it would be hard i think for a lot of folks that i talked to to see him imposing one without more at this point he might do something of a warning to everyone in court yesterday and say basically you're on note that you need to be careful about your public statements but typically, gag orders are used by defendants who don't want prosecutors talking about the case because they might prejudice the jury pool. in this case, it's trump talking about the case one of the more unusual twists the case has shown us. >> okay, the gate is opening and vaughn hillyard, we see the gate opening. we don't know how quickly this motorcade is going to come out obviously he's got secret service secur

one of the things donald trump has tried to do, not wit weisselberg and not with pecker, but with stormytnesses, t make their credibility, to mak them seem less credible in the eyes of the public i don't know if that's going t work with a jury >> well, i think we need t distinguish between the cour of public opinion and the cour of law trump plays -- in the court of public opinion and he's not going to be abl to do that in a court of law and we saw that last week when he had the opportunity t present a witness to the grand jury he presented his former lawyer robert costello, who tried t undermine michael cohen. i think the version that was presented was that storm daniels approached michael cohen and i think, you know, sort of engaged in some kind o shakedown that trump had nothing to do with this. michael cohen did this on hi own, to respond to her request and the facts are that this wa being done as a part of larger arrangement with th national enquirer to bur stories that were potentiall damaging to donald trump befor the election and it was david pecker wh forwarded stormy daniels t

he has presided over two tax fraud cases involving trump's real estate firm, involving allen weisselbergomething like this? >> judges generally are chosen to preside over an arraignment the new york court has a spokesperson who said judge merchan was chosen for this at random and the new york court system, the arraigning judge typically follows that case to trial. so, here, it may just be an accident of the draw >> hey, guys, quickly. i'm sorry, i was looking over to my right for a moment, there was a lot of activity going on i know marjorie taylor greene just arrived here at the park in front of me. the rally is supposed to begin around 10:30 this morning and we're five minutes past 10:30, 10:35. major press gaggle happening, i was watching what was going down over there it seems like that rally is beginning to ramp up i wanted to talk to you quickly about what we heard from tacopina, one of the former president's attorneys on abc was asked if the former president would consider pleading guilty, to make this go away tacopina said no way he also went on to say this, i thought this was in

he has taken shots that he was unfair to allen weisselberg who is the cfo of the trump organization whohis justice, justice merchan, he oversaw the plea agreement that was made with allen weisselberg just this january in which allen weisselberg agreed to a five-month seasons at rikers, the jail just outside the city donald trump, well on the plane, he not only announced he was heading to new york, he said in all caps that this was a witch hunt, but he's taking on not just the district attorney alvin bragg, but even taking shots at jack smith, the special counsel in washington, d.c., calling him a lunatic. >> oh, my. yeah, let me ask you about the plan that donald trump has, his calendar for the rest of the week we know he's not staying too long in new york city. so what happens next >> right you know, this is, i think, it's notable that actually in the last hour, we have received a letter from trump's attorneys in new york they filed a letter with the judge over the discussion about whether there should be camera access inside of the courtroom it's notable trump's attorney, they're figh

testimony from his former chief financial officer, but very limited testimony because remember allen weisselbergis long—time boss. the case really centred around financial documents and i think that is what so many are waiting to see. we have heard from michael cohen's lawyer saying that this case does not rests just on michael cohen. someone, some republicans have attacked as someone as someone who has perjured himself and as an unreliable witness and if the case were —— rests on him no jury the case were —— rests on him no jury will convict donald trump. but what we have heard from michael cohen's lawyer is that alvin bragg has thousands and thousands of other pieces of evidence. to this indictment willjust, when it's unsealed, give us a basic outline of charges, will not go into detail what evidence there is but in the coming months, we will get a better sense of charges, will not go into detail what evidence there is but in the coming months, we will get a better sense about. 5m? the coming months, we will get a better sense about.— the coming months, we will get a better sense about. stay t

i did not see anything related to the recent guilty plea from allen weisselberg.his seems to be entirely focused on catching kill and the hush-money payments, not just for stormy daniels, but a doorman. the statement of facts from the district attorney lays out this whole pressure campaign that was inflicted upon michael cohen. obviously they are using that for this legal case against trump. i thought both of those were interesting. we will have to see. apparently trump is not due back in court until december. you raise a good point. >> the investigation will continue. i imagine alvin bragg will make it clear that this is not the end of the case. this is not the extent of what they could end up charging the former president with. >> that is entirely right. there was allowed within the most recent case against allen weisselberg and the trump organization that, i was surprised there was no mention of that in this. as somebody who is not an attorney, this is a complicated case. the one precedent we can turn to is the john edwards case. he was the former vice presiden

in the trump organization case allen weisselberg was convicte but not trump. when it came to russia and the mother investigation, paul manafort was put behind bars but not trump. he is tough london he is not -- up until now -- bill pascrell did on twitter that when it comes to th people he surrounds him self with, -- chief strategist, personal lawyer, deputy campaign chair, campaign cfo, were all convicted of trump crimes bu not trump. no not teflon don up until now as the editor of the new republic pointed out this week he has been a one-man crim wave is in her adult life. the wonder is that it's take this long for him to b indicted yes. yes. exactly. so please don't buy into the right-wing framing of this indictment, that this is somehow crossing a line. what are shocking is not that former president has bee indicted, what is really shocking is that after all these years, donald trump will finally see the inside of courtroom. let's discuss more with my panel tonight. david henderson, forme prosecutor and civil right attorney he is also cnbc critter bitter --

are made he said what is perhaps the most damaging, that judge marshon, quote, railroaded allan weisselberg, my chief financial officer into pleading guilty by inf indeferentially taking a guilty plea a defendant cannot be saying these things to try to poison the jury pool that will sit in judgment of him, donald trump. so i think this is what we're going hear a lot of discussion about in court tomorrow, the first legal battle that will be waged. >> glenn, according to our sources, that the former president has said that publicly, that after he goes to manhattan and is arraigned, indicted and goes through the process, he goes back to mar-a-lago where tomorrow night he's going to be giving a speech is that something that tomorrow in the afternoon the judge in this case could deal with it >> yeah. what a great question. i think if the judge chooses to put narrowly tailored limitations on what donald trump can and can't say, that certainly will not preclude or prevent him from giving, for example, campaign speeches he will also be allowed to say things like i'm innocent of the charges. i'm goi

one is an intense, by cohe weisselberg, again, to defraud state and federal ta authorities by disguisingmbursements fo michael cohen have paid stormy daniels. what they did was double the amount of money that cohen would have been owed, that $180,000 that he was out for having paid stormy daniels, an then an unrelated payment to a pollster they doubled that. when he paid income tax, h would essentially be - he would receive that hundre 80,000 back. the other possibility is a state election law violation that deals with conspiring t promote the election of particular person to publi office through unlawful means. those unlawful means don't hav to be something that trump himself died it could be a conspiracy, fo example, among trump, cohen, and the folks at the nationa enquirer, to have paid karen mcdougal through the acquirer' own funds in this fals business records on their end. i do think they have a numbe of possibilities, in the stage in the litigation, they're not legally required to specif which of those theories they'r relying on they may not ever be require to specify which those

. >> michael cohen who went to jail, allen weisselberg who is sitting in - >> it is pretty bad. the reason it is so bad is tha one of the defenses that donal trump's attorney seemed to floating around is basically this idea this was not about the election, it was not about potentially influencin election, this was more or les something that they do just as a matter of course when you are talking about wha the recording has on it, i suggests that this wasn' organized, very clear plan and blot to achieve a very clear and. that is why this shell company not just one, but two shel companies were set up. so this really helps t buttress what alan bragg has put into this indictment anyway that takes it out of th defenses this area that donald trump may have done this in th past as a pattern of avoidin things, but it was not necessarily to influence a election i think that that recording, air going to hear a number of, times and it is not going to b something that is music to donald trump's ears. >> suzanne, you covered th trump tax case, alle weisselberg's case what stood out to you to

he has been heavily involved in negotiations that led to trump's longtime financial chief allen weisselberg. >> pleading guilty in 2022. for avoiding in a deal to avoid taxes on a big dollar job perks that he got under the deal was sober, got 5 months in jail in exchange for agreeing to testify against trump's company. now former trump white house strategist steve bannon. >> is also one of the past cases charged with tricking donors who gave money to build a u.s. border wall that never happened. trump's presidential pardon stop the federal prosecution, though, in that case, the former president has already gone on the offensive against the judge, claiming that he real road id, weisselberg into a plea and acted, quote, viciously. against the trump organization. >> stay tuned to kron 4 because we're going to continue following what's going on live in new york with report starting live at 07:00am. we've got reaction and the aftermath of what happens to in our later broadcast. now, we are expecting trump in court at 11, 15 our time. so stay tuned for our noon and 3 o'clock newscast as well as a

, the former president has already gone on the offensive against merchan claiming he railroaded weisselberg into a plea and acted in trump's words viciously in the trump organization case. we will continue to cover trump's arraignment this morning with live reports from new york city. starting at 07:00am. >> the former president is expected to be in court at 11 15 our time we have and we'll be following that at noon with a and are with us. 3 o'clock and throughout the night, all of our newscast, you can stay up to date as well with kron 4 dot com and our kron on app. lots to analyze what that all right. back here in the bay area locally in the south bay, this street drugs tranq taking the life from another bay area resident that drug. >> is an animal tranquilizer that's mixed with opioids like fentanyl and heroin. kron. 4 justin campbell talked with a local health official on what's being done to prevent more deaths like this. >> health officials in santa clara county are now focusing on educating the public on tranq. so you can protect yourself from overdose or death. >> a 36 year-old man

weisselberg, you know, did testify at trial and provided, i'm sure, relevant evidence. his cooperation perhaps was not what the district attorney's office hoped, but nonetheless, he was a key witness at trial and the jury beyond a reasonable doubt found the trump organization guilty of 17 counts, 17 felony counts. so i think his testimony was -- was very helpful, is my belief, but i think although i was not in the room, i think he did not provide full cooperation in testifying against the president himself. >> mark pomerantz who you brought in to help with this trump case, a former federal prosecutor, he was in private practice, you brought him in and i had him on the show in february and he had a sweeping financial fraud case to -- to do that. had you? >> i don't want to get, chuck, into my deliberations and internal communications, but i can say this, where i, too, have green lit the continuation of the investigation toward indictment, i also understood, for reasons that were just specifically about the time that we had, the delays going to the supreme court, the dela

weisselberg an mr.inflat financial evaluations by employing false leading in substance, is that correct >> i declined to answer th question >> the 2019 statement of financial commissions containe false evaluations an statements is that correct? >> same answer >> you knew that the time it was finalized that the yea 2019 statement of financia conditions contained false statements is that correct? >> same answer >> and preparing the 201 statement of financial conditions, mr. weisselberg an mr. mcconney worked at you direction followed you instructions to inflat financial evaluations by employing false leading in substance, is that correct >> same answer >> donald trump is trying to delay another civil case tha is scheduled to go to trial in just 12 days, in federal court in manhattan jury selection is scheduled to begin then. in carols awesome to get stone trump in which she accuses donald trump of raping her in department store dressing room in the 1990s his defense lawyers in tha case are asking for one

allen weisselberg pleading guilty in 2022. in exchange for avoiding a big jail time. he was under this deal. just served 5 months in jail in exchange for agreeing to testify against trump's company. former white house strategist steve bannon also familiar with judge moore he faced him during his trial for tricking donors who gave money to build a border at the mexico all. but >> that money was used for other things. trump's presidential stop that federal prosecution. the former president has already gone on the offensive against judge moore. sean, claiming that he, quote, railroaded weisselberg to a plea deal and acted quote, viciously in the case against the trump organization. more on the president and his arraignment to come. meanwhile, here in the bay area in the south bay, we have santa clara county officials trying to prevent more overdoses and deaths from happening due to a rising a street drug called tranq. now track is a veterinary tranquilizer that's mixed with other drugs. and as of february, santa clara county has reported one death related to this drug. a