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and the two major league sluggers chasing home run history. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening former president donald trump s legal troubles deepening tonight, putting his business empire in jeopardy new york s democratic attorney general naming mr. trump and his three oldest children in a sweeping civil lawsuit, accusing them of 200 instances of fraud for allegedly manipulating the value of assets like the president s mar-a-lago and trump tower residences, aimed at securing favorable bank loans and reducing taxes, and inflating mr. trump s net worth by billions. new york attorney general letitia james seeking to prevent the trump family from serving as officers in any new york business. while it is not a criminal case, new york officials are turning some of their findings over to federal prosecutors regarding possible criminal acts they uncovered. tonight, mr. trump denying the accusations, calling it another witch hunt by a racist attorney ....
trump s former lawyer and fixer joins me live onset. there cannot be different rules for different people in this country or 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 and their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents, when all in starts right now. 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 has ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in a more than 200 page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric and ivanka. his companies and some of his top executives of a long-standing, widespread scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how ag james put it in her groundbr ....
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe ....
who is scheduled to hold that press conference in less than 30 minutes. now to one of the reasons we re here in arizona. the migrant humanitarian crisis at the southern border. roughly 160 miles from where we are this morning. u.s. and customs and border patrol says it arrested 231,000 migrants at the border last month. for the first time ever, the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants exceeded 2 million in one year. in an increasing number of migrants are coming from venezuela, cuba, nicaragua and haiti. places with authoritarian regimes with major human rights issues. doug ducey has joined his republican counterparts from texas and florida in sending migrants to other parts of the country. arizona has reportedly sent nearly 2,000 migrants to washington, d.c., since april. some of the migrants flown from texas to martha s vineyard, massachusetts, by florida governor ron desantis are now suing him, claiming they were victims of fraud. desantis responded in a stat ....