welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
the for our primetime south carolina coverage, with our friends from all over msnbc, including you, i think. yes, yeah. i m doing the night shift. the reunion continues! keep it going, keep the band in extra sets. looking forward to seeing you tomorrow night, for sure. you too, my friend. have a good show. you too, good weekend. the clock has officially started. the judge overseeing donald trump s civil fraud case officially entered into the record and order that forces trump to pay the $454 million, including interest, he owes the state of new york within the next 30 days. mr. trump will also have to make a daily interest payment of $111,000 for each day he does not fork up the catch. if you are doing the math here at home here, that is another million dollars roughly every nine days. not long after that order came down today, trump s attorneys in the e. jean carroll lawsuit filed a motion to request extra time to pay the $83 million he owes in that case. bet
record and order that forces trump to pay the $454 million, including interest, he owes the state of new york within the next 30 days. mr. trump will also have to make a daily interest payment of $111,000 for each day he does not fork up the catch. if you are doing the math here at home here, that is another million dollars roughly every nine days. not long after that order came down today, trump s attorneys in the e. jean carroll lawsuit filed a motion to request extra time to pay the $83 million he owes in that case. between these two lawsuits, donald trump is on the hook for more than half a billion dollars. and it is totally unclear if donald trump actually has that much money at his disposal. trump claimed in the deposition last april that his business had $400 million of cash on hand, which is a lot of money. but it is considerably less than what he owes right now. new york attorney general letitia james has already said she will start seizing trump s assets if he does
welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand, they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to lone donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical president for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city, and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company or. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cashed himself as a winner. now, he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks loved h
hello, i m abby philip in washington. thank you for being here today. the holiday travel nightmare is inflicting more misery across the country. more than 2900 flights in or out of the u.s. have been canceled today already. and just one airline is responsible for 90% of them and that is southwest. passengers stuck in one city, their baggage somewhere else. i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january, and they couldn t even get us home, back to pittsburgh. financially this is going to take a toll. how much could you guys potentially miss out on if you don t get on your flight to colorado? probably 30 plus thousand dollars for a group of ten. we come here. they tell us our luggage is here but they can t give it to us. i said we have medication, we need it. we can t pull it. we don t have the manpower. to add to all of that long ticket lines, hours and hours on hold with the airline company and the growin