that is central to his whole ideology, it is being. so this is kind of the ex central fight for his life that i think he relishes. so alien to me, just as a person. i can t imagine. but, you know. yes, well i will think twice about suing you, yeah. please don t. thank you, chris, as always. thank you this at home for joining us this hour. it is been a bad day for donald trump. this morning he was sued by new york attorney general, a lawsuit that could potentially bring him out of business in the state of new york. and tonight, just in the last few hours, trump has suffered a legal step back in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club. appeals court has ruled that the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all of the documents seized from his club are as personal property and that if the fbi found anything classified
yes. trump s former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, joins me live onset. it cannot be different rules for different people in this country or in this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud, and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family in their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents. all in starts right now. the good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit alleging what was already obvious to anyone who was ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in more than a 200-page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric, and ivanka, his company, and some of its top executives, of a long-standing scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how new york agent james put it t
ever had legally. all right, as, always a pleasure, thank you very much. thank you, chris. that is all in on this wednesday, alice wagner starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. you know, it is a series of developments for donald trump and his legal woes. quite a day. as evidence of, that the fact that we are all gonna be seeing the phrase on bank review, on bank review. well i will do it like that. the french version. i said it wrong that i said it right. do you find, human to human here, just ask you a question. not like their cameras on. it stresses me out, but the notion of having that much legal weight bearing down on me gives me like a visceral stomach ache. yes. and it is just wild to me to just live your life this way. in the middle of a male strung of all-time s. but obviously, his constitution is different than ours because he is sending up fundraising emails. to some degree, this is oxygen to him. absolutely. it is also el
and nobody is able to do it because that fact, that evidence just does not exist. is there an option here for the administration to take this to the full u.s. court of appeals for the 9th circuit? yes, an on bank review is what that s called. but that s unlikely. why? because this was a unanimous decision. it s called per curium. which means a 3-0 decision. usually to the entire court of appeals if it s a 2-1 split, but that s not the case. the three justices did say the president s past tweets can actually be used as evidence. yes. how significant is that? that s very significant. because, listen, again, in court, we re dealing with logic and evidence. we all know donald trump during the campaign called for a total and complete shutdown of muslims coming to the u.s. we have that on video. we have his statement. we know that more recently, rudy