Harry It Willman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Witch hunt by the radical left. >> kara, thank you. i know you've been reporting all day. "outfront" now, laura cotes, harry it willman, and glory borger. good evening, all. harry, a 15-year tax scheme, 15 felony counts, including a scheme to defraud, grand larceny, falsifying records. prosecutors allege weisselberg evaded taxes of $1.7 million of income. what do you make of the charges? >> sweeping and audacious. you know, as recently as yesterday, poppy, we might have expected a few isolated tax counts. instead, what we have is a sk scheme to defraud. that's a lot more understandable for a j...

President trump called this a political witch hunt. does this just embolden him, though? >> sure. he likes to play the victim. he's going say i'm the victim here, and it's just the democrats who have moved from capitol hill and now they're in new york. but the portrait that is painted in -- by the prosecutors here is not of a mistake. it is of tax cheats. it's a way of doing business. and juries don't like tax cheaters, the last time i checked. rich tax cheaters the last time i checked. so president trump will be able to play to the base and the base will say yeah, yeah, they're just out to ge...

So harry, let's play what trump organization lawyers said today after court. >> these cases are always resolved in the civil context. the irs has never made a case like this. >> they cannot point to any case, any case, where a corporation has been prosecuted based on a few individuals in the corporation who allegedly, on their personal tax return, made a mistake or did not pick up fringe benefits on their personal tax return. >> you hear that, and there is the question, harry, most of these cases against corporations like this are generally civil. can you explain why this one is criminal? >> y...