Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg pleads guilty in fraud case
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
4.4 • 35.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Rachel. Alex Wagner has a brand new show here on MSNBC. It's called Alex Wagner Tonight. |
| 0:05.8 | Take a listen and then go subscribe to Alex Wagner Tonight, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:10.6 | Tonight, a judge in Florida says he will likely release a redacted version of the FBI |
| 0:16.1 | affidavit behind the search of Donald Trump's Florida Country Club home. New York Times Justice |
| 0:21.2 | Department reporter Katie Benner joins us live. And in a New York courtroom, Trump's long-time |
| 0:26.7 | top executive pleads guilty, admitting he conspired with the former president's company |
| 0:31.7 | to not pay taxes, and now he will testify against the Trump Organization. |
| 0:36.8 | Sue Craig, the New York Times reporter who has led the reporting on Trump's finances, |
| 0:41.2 | is here in studio tonight. And he is the member of the Biden Cabinet, |
| 0:45.3 | dispatched to take the president's case to Republicans and Fox News. |
| 0:49.6 | Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins us live. |
| 0:52.6 | But first, we start in September of 2015. Donald Trump was three months removed from his famed |
| 1:00.5 | escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. He'd already risen to the top of the Republican |
| 1:05.6 | field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his Trump Tower office to the |
| 1:11.6 | Wall Street Journal. This is your Kilo Neal shoe. Oh my God. Right here, which is a serious |
| 1:18.4 | shoe. That's a real shoe. He took it off after a game and handed it to me. I carried it like this. |
| 1:23.0 | Tom Brady Super Bowl helmet. Wow. This is Mike Tyson's belt. |
| 1:30.0 | Shaq Shou, Tom Brady Super Bowl helmet. Mike Tyson's belt. We have known for a while that Donald |
| 1:36.8 | Trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. And so when Trump arrived at the White House, |
| 1:42.3 | well, it was no different. Here is the New York Times today describing Trump's time in office. |
| 1:47.6 | Quote White House aides described how excited Trump was to show off all the material he had access to, |
| 1:53.6 | including letters from the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which he routinely waiveded visitors, |
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