SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The economy is up. Facebook is billions of dollars down. Putin will visit but not until Bob Mueller is done. And Michael Cohen has begun to dish. We begin the hour by sorting through the week with NPR’s Ron Elving, our senior editor and correspondent at NPR. Ron, thanks so much for being with us.
RON ELVING, BYLINE: Good morning, Scott.
SIMON: Please give us a fill – so much going on in the Mueller investigation this week.
ELVING: Well, you know, it seemed like there was Mueller news pretty much every day this week, Scott. On Friday, we learned that Trump’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has been subpoenaed in the Mueller probe. Now, this is a man who has the keys to the kingdom, if anyone does. We also got a list of 35 witnesses who are expected to be called in the trial of Paul Manafort. Now, that’s Trump’s 2016 campaign manager. He is accused of money laundering and deceiving the U.S. government. That trial was delayed until next week. But we do expect this is going to be the new refocusing of the Mueller probe in the days ahead.
Also this week, CNN reported that Michael Cohen – that’s the former attorney for the president – is ready to testify that Trump knew about that June 2016 meeting with Manafort and Donald Jr. and some Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. And we also learned that Putin and the president will not meet in September because they want to wait until after the Mueller probe is over. So they’re planning to exchange visits to each other’s capital city next year.
SIMON: We have no idea if the Mueller probe will be over or not though, right?
ELVING: That was – that was a bit of a surprise, I think, to quite a number of people that the president was so certain that it would be over. But we shall see, as…
