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>> and you have had remarkable success over the years. we thank you for sharing your experience tonight, john, and your opinion. we look forward to talking to you, again. hopefully, with some better, more concrete news in the coming days. next, we have more breaking news. but we are just now learning about todays white house negotiations over key pieces of president bidens economic agenda, not to mention his political future. talks with democratic lawmakers. democratic lawmakers, not republica...

Correspondents. at issue, their reporting with her help detailing how in their words, president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents. thats the lead from the piece which has already earned those three reporters the pulitzer prize. that, plus one donald trump lawsuit accusing them and mary trump of conspiring in a, quote, insidious plot motivated by a personal vendetta to o...

Fraud that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents. thats the lede from the piece which has already earned those three reporters the pulitzer prize. that, plus one donald trump lawsuit accusing them and mary trump of conspiring in a, quote, insidious plot motivated by a personal vendetta to obtain his tax records. this from a man who promised but never made public his personal tax returns. whose former corporate chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, is under indictment f...

Man who has spent his life creating myths about him and running -- about himself -- and running as far as he possibly can from anyone who wants to tell the truth. whether its about his finances, his intellectual abilities, et cetera, et cetera. and -- and hes protective of his finances, in particular, because it always reveals that his fortune is not as big as he claims it is. his businesses arent as robust as he claims they are. and hes done business with a lot of nefarious people, including mo...

We could see more revelations of the kinds of two sets of books fraud that got mr. weisselberg in trouble, so far. and thats just starting. >> tim, where do -- what -- what is the next step here? i mean, in terms of, you know, based on what you know about the former president, your dealings with him, how much do you think this matters to him? and if it does, is it because theres something there to hide? or just the, you know, nobody likes to have their, you know, laundry, dirty or not, looked at...

I think were going to have some pretty shocking, further revelations about just how much he was getting from foreign governments. >> tim, i mean, how big a deal is this ruling, in your view? because the judge said the house cant see tax returns before he was president. does that -- does that make a big difference, do you think? >> i mean, im glad that we got this. i -- i would disagree with my friend, norm, a little bit in -- in -- in regards to whether or not its a milestone because i just dont...

Desire to pad his own wallet? i think this disclosure gets towards that. and he knows it. and theres -- theres relationships hes had, in his past, that hes concerned about. donald trump consorted with members of organized crime in atlantic city and in the new york real estate market. there is a lot of dirt there, that he doesnt want to expose. doesnt want to be exposed. and i think if he wasnt concerned about those things, he would have freely given these documents up, as he promised to do many ...

House democrats during the first impeachment and a cnn legal analyst. and also, timothy obrien, author of "trump nation, the art of being the donald." so, norm, you raised a red flag, early on, about the emoluments clause and the former president. you heard what the judge wrote. the -- what do you make of where this has landed? of what the judge has, so far, decided? >> anderson, thanks for having me back. i think its an important milestone on holding trump accountable. when you and i, first, st...

As an advice of council defense to some of the fraud charges. and he doesnt email. so we know that there isnt going to be a lot of documentary evidence that demonstrates donald trumps knowledge of any misreputations to insurance companies, to banks, to tax authorities. thats why allen weisselberg becomes so important. and if he is indicted, because he would know all of this stuff, then the question is whether or not he will cooperate. because i do think that you will need someone who really know...

Crimes, potentially. so investigators will let us know what they have found. timothy obrien, thank you so much for being here tonight. please stay safe. dont go anywhere, because my favorite story of the week is coming up next. take a deep breath in. and out. and stick around.