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nbc news has learned that indicted trump
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organization executive alan weisselberg
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has been quietly removed from top
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positions at more than two dozen trump
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subsidiaries but weisselberg who was
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indicted on tax fraud charges this month
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and has pleaded not guilty does still
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remain cfo of the trump organization
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nbc news senior washington correspondent
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hallie jackson joins us now from
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washington to break this all down for us
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so hallie
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tell us what does this mean where does
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weisselberg stand right now within the
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trump org
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so let's start with kind of the nuts and
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bolts of that joe just to answer your
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questions here um
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and this is interesting right because
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you have weisselberg now nbc news has
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confirmed based on public records
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and filings in the state of florida
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being removed as an officer from
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like more than two dozen trump
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organizations subsidiaries
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so that has happened you might it's not
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like they announced it in a press
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release right it happened
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a little bit quietly just these filings
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that were put in place why that's the
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big question i can tell you based on my
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conversations with a source familiar
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with this move
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that the reason that this happened was
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for
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what was described as prudent corporate
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governance right and the idea being that
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by doing this by taking wesselberg's
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name off of some of these
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records it essentially could help the
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trump organization avoid any potential
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potential pitfalls
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in the state of florida i i will note
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that the emphasis was that weisselberg's
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role at this point appears to remain
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unchanged inside the trump organization
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but joe let me tell you this move is
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being seen by some observers as a
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potential
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signal of maybe change right maybe
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weisselberg
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doesn't stay as cfo for much longer i
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let me just
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caveat here i'm a reporter as you know
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sticking to the facts
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that is you know speculation and
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conjecture on the part of some people
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who are observing what is happening here
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um because right now remember the trump
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organization has thrown its weight
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fully behind its cfo even after the
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indictments came down joe you'll
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remember that they released this
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statement you know praising weisselberg
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as this
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loving grandfather talking about his
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nearly five decades
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with the trump organization uh it seems
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unlikely to me based on conversations
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that i have had with people close to the
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situation
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that the trump work would just turn
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around right now and you know cut
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weisselberg out
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completely because of this indictment
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and in fact if they were to do that
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joe that would actually undercut their
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entire pr push here
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they have tried to portray these charges
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as simply politically motivated
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insisting that weisselberg did nothing
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wrong and essentially has nothing to
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hide partly why he has pleaded not
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guilty
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as you've noted and we know they're not
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big on backing down on anything so the
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big question of course a lot of folks
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have
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is looking forward uh have we learned
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anything any possible clues about
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whether there could be
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other potential charges against the
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trump organization or whether there
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would be
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any charges at all against the former
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president himself
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let me take that in two buckets first
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any charges coming against others in the
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trump organization
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prosecutors have been very clear and
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they have said explicitly
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that this is an ongoing investigation
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basically
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dangling out this hint that we're still
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actively working on it that said
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they have not issued any other
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indictments obviously we would have
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heard about it
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and there has been nothing public on
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that front which indicates that they are
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continuing to work at least behind the
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scenes
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i will say there's another uh sort of
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key moment that is going to be happening
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in the weisselberg case coming up in
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september so that's one thing that we're
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looking ahead to
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as for the potential charges against
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former president trump listen
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he he was not charged he was not part of
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the most recent you know
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the round of indictments that we've seen
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those first criminal charges in this
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long time ongoing new york district
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attorney investigation
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if that were to happen and that is a
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huge if still at this point joe
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we're not going to know for from what i
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understand from legal experts here
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months if not years right it's not like
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we're turning around tomorrow and and
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may hear word of that if in fact that
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were to happen uh so that's kind of
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where we stand at the moment all right
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we know you'll stay on top of it hallie
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jackson in washington for us thank you
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so much my friend
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