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that does it for us here on the beat with ari melber joy reid picks it up next. tonight on the reidout under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. my lawyers came to me and said there s nothing here. they re not saying what you did. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records he also caused others to make false statements trump is still lying as local prosecutors pursue criminal charges against him doing the work that the doj should have been doing all along. despite warnings to refrain from inciting violence, trump is still attacking d.a. bragg the judge juan merchan and their families big breakthrough in wisconsin. but the challenge to democracy remains very real with republicans pushing minority rule and we begin with defendant donald j. trump, back at his mar-a-lago home after facing his first taste of the criminal justice syst ....
i ve been in the room when difficult decisions are being made. i don t want the federal government involved in that at all. i want to put the best ideas forward to states can decide for themselves. yes, ladies, you your doctor and maybe your town council person can all come to a consensus on your uterus. just an example how republicans are struggling to avoid saying what they really plan to do about abortion. and extreme voices in the republican party. chief of staff mark meadows is ordered to testify as legal pressure mounts on trump s inner circle to tell what they know about the plot to overturn the 2020 election. we begin the reidout. you thrive as a presidential candidate despite bragging about violating woman and being credibly accused of acting on it. you thrive as an ohio senate candidate despite telling women they should stay in violent marriages. you thrive as an ohio house candidate despite facing allegations of hitting a former girlfriend. in today s ....
beforehand, and it was essentially a diatribe against new york state attorney general letitia james accusing her of being biased against him and conducting a politically motivated witch hunt for political gain. he acknowledged he said in the past that if you re innocent, you have no reason to take the fifth amendment. he said recent events in his life have caused him to change his tune including the recent fbi raid search of his compound in mar-a-lago, florida. he said it just made no sense for him to cooperate in any way with this civil fraud investigation. what s interesting about it is his son, eric trump, we re told took the fifth amendment more than 500 times in a deposition in this very case back in 2020. but more recently, his daughter ivanka and other son don jr. we re told did testify and answer questions in this investigation which is about whether the trump organization committed fraud in its representations to banks and insurance companies. leticia james h ....
Out of the meticulous factchecking that went into covering the first night of a Republican Convention. And say what you will about Republican Conventions of the past, and i was a part of a lot of them, they sought to hugh to the facts and make their case from there. This was a totally different undertaking. Thats right. There may be some exaggeration that comes with every Political Convention but what we saw last night was a real list of misleading statements. Everything from the fact that joe biden wants to abolish the police to the fact that president obama wants to abolish the suburbs to the fact that President Trump was quickly responding to the coronavirus and did all that he could in the very beginning to try to thwart the virus. We know ....
Lawyers that flynn lied to the fbi because he was caught off guard when approached by fbi agen agents. Also this week, the president s former fixer, mielk cohen, speaking out after being sentenced to three years in prison. Cohen saying trump absolutely directed him to pay off a porn star and a former playmate so they would keep quiet about their sexual history with then candidate trump before he was electriced. He directed me, skps as i said as well in the plea, he directed me to make the payments. He directed me to become involved in these matters. Plus, we have a brand new investigation to add it this list. The Trump Inauguration is now being looked at for what federal prosecutors describe as possible financial abuses. They are reportedly looking into whether the committee accepted donations from people in Foreign Countries looking to gain influence or access to the ....