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His opinion on the summary judgment. its many pages, single spaced, very thoughtful. he gets into the document and he has to because hes the one, its not a jury, hes that one issued this final decision. and he knows, as any judge who decides anything and trump land, it will be appealed, scrutinized, and heavily criticized. >> kurt, let me ask about this new relative we find ourselves. and both official james and judge engoron have been the subject of violent threats. on first, morning police wer...

About the fraud. Thats been a central theme of the trump defense. Multiple vote. Its been, hey, if this happened, we had people handling this, it wasnt us. We didnt have knowledge of this alleged fraud. The other major prong of their argument is valuation. Realistic values could be anything. You add to that the trump brand, which is valuable, and now through even more nebulous. Thats consistent with the Trump Argument the and her time. This shows me, Justice Engoron is really listening to witnes...

Donald trump, by someone who didnt successfully. it comes out january 30th, so, i -- am in the studio, upcoming own copy. this is pretty awesome! thank you so much. look, you did it! you won 25 million dollar settlement from donald trump! with regard to trump university. what do you make, first of, all of trumps claims right there when he says yeah, guess what? you owe me damages. >> yeah, thats not how it works! especially when there is a mountain of evidence that he broke the law with persiste...

Have been a directed verdict. summary judgment. >> no. i dont think can you do an ethical complaint against the judge based on the fact that he is ridiculous judge. he is not the one who campaigned on doing. this a lawyer who campaigned on this. so, no, i dont think can you do that. >> laura: sol, mike, good to see you. sol, great to see you in studio. i hardly recognized you. you are so spiffy. mike you are always spiffy. the trans surgeries at texas children want hospital being targeted by bid...

Institutions and the entire branch of our government, the judicial branch, i think it is really causing long term damage. >> it is a form of character assassination to for some of the charges. i want to circle back that in a second. but i want to talk about the trial, itself. this is closing argument. day 300 zip in the million dollars being sold here. wow. it was a big number, initially, when it was 2:50, i think. that number went up. can you sort of, for folks trying to understand the laymans ...

Its important. many people probably know, some people may not, there was a summary judgment unless. case that means there is already been a finding of fraud. donald trump is not looking at coming at the end of this, going down to ten or 20 million, or him finding him in effect not liable. hes been found liable on that most serious counts in this case. that number is. 370 million. and a break it down for you. the number, $168 million is the first. number thats on saved interest for commercial pro...

Predictably. what he ended up doing was creating a space where this is one less issue for an appeal. he would go back and say, "i was treated unfairly and my rights were violated in some form or fashion." kudos to the judge. it was a calculated risk by the bench. he understood there was a risk this could happen, but, ultimately, it didnt play a factor in the way donald trump wanted it to. >> there is $370 million penalty that the state general wants to impose, and itll prevent trump from doing b...

This month. guys. >> outside the courthouse, thank you very much. joining us from des moines, iowa is senior political correspondent for "the new york times," maggie haberman. thanks for joining us. its fascinating a lifelong new yorker is currently in des moines where you would think all politicians running for president would be. now back in new york, because of this court case, and it underscores the politics and the courtroom continued convergence l perspective, what does this case mean to...

Just those remedies. how far can this judge go? theyve stayed some of the most severe remedies. it is not a fast appellate process in new york. theres two level of appeals. it could take years before we get a final answer. and potentially the judge could rule the trump organization and trump personally and the sons could no longer do business in new york. >> potentially. and hes already signaled some direction towards that with his initial ruling on partial summary judgment. but raising question...

Parties of the now-settled Hawkins Board of Education racism lawsuit speak out about the settlement.