magnitude, which is just enormous, and it wasst followed hours later by an after shock that was 7.5. now, having such a huge quake like thatno followed in such quk secession by such an almost equally large quake which means anything significant damagely after the first shock, it came down in the after shock. in turkey alone they re saying there are more than 5,000 buildingsha collapsed across 14 different turkish cities. across the southern border of turkey into northern syria, thousands of n buildings collapsed there again as well. between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyt approaching 4,000 peoe killed with many, many more thousands people, injured. tonight, of course, is the horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under collapsed buildings while also fully expecting that more damaged buildingse will contin to collapse while rescue efforts are under c way. both the survivors and rescuers are in grave peril now, and it is cold to
relationship with deutsche bank could he have defrauded deutsche bank by getting financing through overstated financial statements, whether he had engaged in money laundering using overseas bank accounts. the accuracy of materials he provided to the gsa about the old post office and a host of other things including insurance fraud, the restructuring of his loan on his chicago skyscraper. you go on and on and on. when you describe that litany of areas of potential criminal inquiry for trump and when you describe your reasoning and the debates between you and your team about the hush money thing, are you giving a potential life line to donald trump s defense lawyers that if they do end up getting charged with anything related to any of those items including the hush money matter, that your book could be used as evidence to question the charges in court to say, look,
and i can tell you that is gladatorial combat among lawyers that i am interest in watching, but i am not at all interested in joining that. i m not one of those gladiatorso i m not even a lawyer. what i m interested in, we the public and we the press for better or worse, we do now get the benefit of what mark pomerantz can describe to us as the strength of the evidence ca against trump, its potential weaknesses, potential charges against trump and the wherewithal of the prosecutors who in new york at least appear to have trump in their sights. from mr. pomerantz s book, for example, we learn that there were at least nine he lists nine different areas of criminal inquiry into trump by the d.a. s office when mr. pomerantz came on board in late 2020, nine. he tells us that serious
office. and mr. pomerantz once again made national headline news when he quit because he quit in loud protest of the fact that trump had not yet been charged. his resignation letter appeared in the new york times. in it he said he and his investigative team determined there was no doubt that trump was guilty of numerous felony violations. he described it as a grave failure of justice. i that there hadn t been charged levied against trump and he left. like i said, the man is a bit of a backfiring motorcycle.ng whether he intends it or not loud noises follow him closely wherever he goes. but now to carry the metaphor forward it is starting to feel like the full on fourth of julyi because now mr. pomerantz is out as of midnight tonight with this new book called people vs. donald trump: an inside account, and in this slim book, he starts off with a bombshell revelation, he explains early on
we were looking at instance after instance of suspected illegal conduct. of course, they had to be provable, but if they were proved their collective weight left no doubt in my mind that trump deserved to be prosecuted. measures short of criminal prosecution had been used against trump, and he had dismissed them as trivial. looking at the totality of trump s conduct over the years i thought it was crystal clear that measures short of criminal prosecution meant nothing to him and would not deter him in the slightest from engaging in other anti-social behavior. indeed, the more successful he became, the more brazen was his behavior, he d stiffed many contractors and small business owners who decided to advance services or products to the trump organization because, after all, donald trump was so wealthy. michael cohen had told us that a big part of his job was telling small credit tors who did business with trump that they weren t going to get paid and forcing them to accept whatever mod