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>> tonight, the budget battle brewing in washington after house republicans use their first week to score political points and not govern. then, the trump orbit hit with a maximum 1.6 billion dollar fine for tax keen days after its cfo sentenced to jail at rikers island. so what now? and for a wild week in congress, including multiple calls for a congressman to resign, to the return of the golden globes, our friday night cap is here on all of it, as the 11th hour gets underway right no...

the trump orbit hit with a maximum 1. 6 billion dollar fine for tax keen days after its cfo sentenced to jail at rikers island. so what now? and for a wild week in congress, including multiple calls for a congressman to resign, to the return of the golden globes, our friday night cap is here on all of it, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good friday evening. im stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight the republicans running the house may be setting the stage for the first major sho...

>> right, well, alvin bragg, the manhattan dea, says he is investigating trump personally. what i did was write a piece laying out for alvin bragg a simple roadmap. donald submitted during the years he was a candidate and president 26 business filings that showed zero revenue, but he took one hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive. he did this in 1984, and judges for the city of new york and state of new york, after trials that trump demanded, said this was civil tax rod, in addition his ...

Close out the first week of republicans controlling the house? >> theres such a widespread here. those are the questions -- about these classified documents, and obviously, they are trying as much as the county point to the disorder and disarray of the republican house which has been on display now since the opening of the congress, january 3rd, several days before there was actually a speaker. >> well, weve got a lot more weeks ahead, and this showdown is only going to get next year into the la...

Look at the evidence, i know im guilty of this sometimes to, of looking at the evidence and saying, thats overwhelming. but as a prosecutor, you have to confront the legal standard and the risk of losing your case on appeal. you want to keep going until you have as much evidence as possible. and so, i think the more interesting question here, after what happened in this trial, might we see the manhattan dea reconsider that earlier decision and decide to go after trump now? >> joyce, its not just...

Guilty conscience? >> you know what? its a fair point, jon. that is something that will have to be determined as we move forward. i would hope, fred points it out and fred hopes the police has a proof. im a product of manhattan deas office. they know what theyre doing. it is not enough when the people give details it sub stand eights what theyre saying. some suggestion his sister went to the police at the time. if that was so credible why not follow-up with the police? if he said something in pr...