what maybe more relevant is that during the trump presidency, ivanka got a surprising number of pathsnd surprisingly short order. in the span of two months, in 2018, the chinese government granted 18 trademarks two companies linked to president trump and ivanka trump, bringing the total number of trademarks ivanka was granted that year to 34. and this was also all according to the online database of china's trademark office. seven of those trademarks came at the same time as a trump led trade deal with china. but enough about ivanka. what about the kushner side of the family? during the pandemic, a kushner family company was elected to build a federal covid-19 testing website that never came to fruition, according to reporting from the atlantic. there are other instances of kushner using his office and his connection to trump for his own benefit, but none of it compares with what was wants to come. the real doozy was that time kushner's new company, affinity partners, secured a two billion dollar investment from the kingdom of saudi arabia's investment fund >> affinity was a brand-new

the only one who is included on that who is not charged due to the statute of limitations is ivanka trump. the question is since she escaped this by the statute of limitations, what will her testimony be? how damaging could it be for her father and brothers as trump defends the thing that matters most to him and vaulted him to the white house, his supposed wealth. >> part of the beauty of me is that i'm very rich. >> i built a great company in a relatively short period of time, with billions of dollars of net worth. >> i'm richer than they are. >> i'm really rich. i'll show you that. >> also on the witness list, trump's former personal attorney michael cohen. cohen who served prison time knows a lot. he was trump's one time fixer and provided this damming testimony, specific, it's very specific, under oath in 2019. listen to this. >> to your knowledge, did the president or his company ever inflate assets or revenues? >> yes. >> and was that done with the president's knowledge or direction? >> everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of mr. trump. >> a lot to get to toni

dismissed, and if we do want to follow the evidence, perhaps we should discuss the investigation of ivanka trump being charged or close to being charged with felony fraud after donald trump's personal attorney provided political contributions to the local da and those charges were dismissed and ultimate the, we saw that that da vance, president trump's attorney provided $50,000 in political contributions after the case was dismissed. so when we talk about political contributions if we are following the evidence that we are willing and if this committee is going to go there, that they would be willing to open investigations into the dismissal of charges against ivanka trump and, by the way, if the chair or gentlelady from georgia wanted to follow evidence, we should also take a look at hypothetically a case where sex trafficking charges against a 17-year-old girl potentially -- >> the gentlelady's time has expired. we recognize arizona for five minutes. >> they have done an outstanding job of covering the money sent to hunter biden from foreign sources and it is pretty obvious that only avenue fo

el gobierno retrasar los juicios federales que Él enfrenta, el congresista rober garcÍa acusÓ a ivanka trumpos Árbitros es suficiente. " creo que las cosas divulgadas ayer son apropiados para discutir", seÑalÓ. los demÓcratas consideran inaudito que esta audiencia tenga lugar a sÓlo tres dÍas de que el gobierno pueda ser cerrado. >> estamos aquÍ, teniendo que hacer esto cuando sabemos que no ha hecho nada. reportero: presentar un mensaje de texto donde supuestamente la familia biden discutiÓ la participaciÓn del presidente de supuestos acuerdos con funcionarios de otros paÍses. ilia: el presidente honrarÁ a presuntos senador republicano john en su estado natal, arizona, anunciarÁ su financiaciÓn para construir una biblioteca, serÁ una instalaciÓn polivalente que ofrecerÁ programas de educaciÓn, trabajo y control de trabajo a las comunidades menos favorecidas. jorge: los congresistas a sÓlo tienen dos dÍas para aprobar un nuevo presupuesto y mantener funcionando la sanciÓn del gobierno, republicanos extremistas estÁn rechazando una propuesta bipartidista, si no hay acuerdo antes del sÁbado a

sovereign wealth fund wondering if they should just pass. >> kate, what can you tell us about ivanka trumpions about how she may have benefited from her role in the trump white house? how did she get those trademark? >> yeah, you mentioned the trademarks and china. basically, in every way, this is such a norm shattering presidency in terms of bringing family members in the white house. as my colleague, peter acre, noted recently. they idea that she was still obtaining very much for her clothing and accessories line. the idea that jared kushner was having dealings with international figures who were hers counterparts, for example. working on the abraham accords. it was a really path breaking international accord in the middle east. and the same time, so shortly after leaving office he ends up leaving and doing business with some of these players. he, at least, his playing into a loophole here. this is not, strictly, against the law. after you leave office obtained investment money from one of your former counterparts. where would get into illegal territory if any of that was discussed or if

>> we are going to investigate jared kushner and ivanka trump. got the right ideas to do so. oversight committee, our ranking member, jamie raskin, has been clear this has been a priority. this is a huge scandal that deserves serious investigation. the abuse of power and possible criminal activity here is immense. and so i think we have a responsibility to the american public to find out why jared kushner received $2 billion two months after leaving the white house. and that's a serious issue, and it's one that i think we're committed to on the oversight committee. >> and congressman, this week we saw hunter biden become the first child of a sitting u.s. president to be indicted. the special counsel, david weiss, charged hunter biden with making false statements on a federal firearms form, lying to federal -- licenses on those gun dealer licenses. obviously can come with it serious problems. do you think these charges harm the president in trying to run for re-election next year? and what do you think -- do you think hunter biden needs to come ou

oh wait, no, that was ivanka trump and jared trump or jared.zy? to the idea of a biden impeachment. there are no charges, it's completely illegitimate, and i think for the democrats perspective, they are loving this. they will not say, it's not admitted. it's only going to drive up president biden's numbers at a time when there are a little bit soft. and i think the longer this impeachment inquiry goes forward, the more they're going to behind the scenes prop it up, and kevin mccarthy is going to be speaker for the remainder of this term, because he's going to have democratic votes in the house to keep him there. has an act of an alpha trump move, on the part of the democratic caucus -- if republicans try and move mccarthy, they're going to keep him in, there it'll make their life even worse. >> that will be quite an interesting political move by the democrats. i have to say, i mean, you could almost, and use the word almost here, very loosely, you could almost believe the republicans if they would have opened an investigation into jared kushne

>> there were statute of limitations issues with regard to the claims against ivanka trump.nd so essentially it was too late to bring those claims. and the timing was off. i think that she wasn't involved in the business at certain times. and so they weren't allowed to bring the claims against her. >> okay. thanks, guys. >>> so three days left to avoid a government shutdown. the senate has laid out a stopgap bill to fund the government through november. big questions though about whether it stand as chance in the house. >>> and new overnight, more than a dozen arrests have been made in philadelphia after mass looting there. we'll bring you the latest on the investigation. >>> madame speaker, forgive me, but what the hell is going on around here? >> that is massachusetts democratic congressman jim mcgovern speaking for all of us to some degree as we watch congress careen toward as a government shutdown. thousand ju now just three days to go. the senate has offered up a bill. but it is dead on arrival in the house and that is where speaker kevin mccarthy is still trying to wra

that have been dismissed, and if we do want to follow the evidence, perhaps we should discuss ivanka trump's investigation in charge with felony fraud, after donald trump's personal attorney provided political contributions to the local dea, those charges were dismissed, and ultimately, we saw that dea vance, president trump's attorney provided over $50,000 in political contributions after the case was dismissed. can we talk about political contributions, i would hope that we're following the evidence that we are willing, that this committee, is gonna go there, that they be willing to open an investigation into the political charges against ivanka trump. and, by the way, if the gentlelady from georgia wanted to follow evidence, we should also take a look at hypothetically a case where sex trafficking charges against a 17 year old girl, potentially -- >> gentlelady's time's expired. >> thank, you i yield back. >> the general chairman recognizes mr. gosar of arizona, for five minutes. >> thank, you mister chairman. chairman comer and his team have done a great job of uncovering millions of dol

prosecution said it plans to call donald trump, donald trump jr., eric trump, and ivanka trump all as witnesses. >>> the american soldier who slipped into north korea is back in the u.s. tonight. private travis king -- this is him getting off the plane in san antonio, texas, this morning. this is his plane, back in july came stationed from south korea and was just freed on assault charges and was supposed to fly back to the u.s. to face disciplinary action but he sprinted across the border into north korea. north korea said yesterday it was finished questioning him and expelled him from the country. tonight king is in a u.s. military hospital for a medical and mental health evaluation. >>> still ahead fast food workers just got a raise. the bill governor newsom signed today boosting their pay and when that change goes into effect. >>> and he's not your average high school senior. garvin thomas introduces us to a san jose teenager manufacturing products that are now helping people in underdeveloped parts of the world. it's our bay area proud segment coming up. >>> i'm chief meteorologi

the former president and three of his adult children, don jr., eric trump and ivanka trump are more than dozen to be named. that trial now set to begin on monday morning. mr. trump's sons have been running the company since mr. trump was elected in 2016. on tuesday, the judge overseeing this case ruled mr. trump and his company had committed years of fraud on their financial statements, changing the value of assets and inflating mr. trump's net worth to suit the business's needs. mr. trump has repeatedly attacked this case as a witch hunt and another of what he calls election interference, and his attorneys have vowed to appeal that tuesday ruling. lester? >> all right, garrett haake, thanks. >>> a day after a republican debate without the gop front-runner, president biden took his most aggressive swing yet against former president trump and his supporters. gabe gutierrez reports tonight from arizona. >> reporter: tonight, the general election campaign appears to be under way. >> trump says the constitution gave him, quote, the right to do whatever he wants as president. >> reporter: sha

lists are out. 28 witnesses in the prosecution case, including donald trump, donald trump, jr., ivanka trump and the former fixer. he said the trump family had inflated the value of their assets. that's exactly what she sued and what a judge earlier this week said what they did. the trump side says they plan to call 127 winces, including donald trump. he's already testified in a deposition. when it comes down to it, we'll see if he provides live testimony. in a civil ways you cannot case and have that held against you, but sources say he's eager to take the stand. the trial is set to begin on monday. for now we're waiting for a an peals court ruling the issue going forward is going to be both one of damages as well as the individual culpability of some of these defendants, including former president trump. >> kara scannell, thank you for that report. >>> of course, all of this unfolding as house republicans are holding their inquiry hearing. >> let's discuss 2024 with gloria borger and cnn presidential historian. literally i'm being choked by my microphone cord that full off high back. >> oh

i am calling about he ivanka trump. she is in malley, visiting the victims of the fire out there. it is not a big story, but it meant a lot to me that she is out there, not getting a photo op, just out there helping. i think that is great. host: pat is on our democrats line from michigan. caller: on the ongoing issue come up return -- pertaining to the strikers, i want to tell a quick story. my husband and i drove a semi truck for 25 years for a company. i will not name them. we were hazmat endorsed. we hold explosives, flammables, poisons, salon on and so forth. we also had security clearing. high-security loads. we both retired as 2,000,000 mile accident free drivers. the reason why we retired is because it was announced that our company was finally going to give a raise. then we found out that it was everyone under the 1,000,000 mile mark. we were 2 million. host: specifically, how does that relate to the strike? caller: because we worked for a nonunion company. i had no one to go to. i had no one to speak for me. so when you belong to a union company and you are using 90's, an

today the judge has -- essentially the office, the list of witnesses includes trump, includes ivanka trump, includes donald trump jr. and eric trump as well. do you think we could actually see trump himself testify? >> i think it would be a really bad idea for him to testify. so, i think he probably will stay off the stand. i think the arguments they want to make, they can put forth without him having to put himself on the stand that way. but the -- it's a very complex unraveling that's going to happen. it's still a little bit unclear to me just how some of the judge's rulings are going to get implemented. but no question, the judge has really eviscerated the heart of his defense, which is these were valid valuations i was making, and that's completely gone. >> his own attorneys were asking, what's the exppoint of going to trial? further penalties facing trial. >> it's become a damages question at this point, what kind of penalty there's going to be. as >>> we are back here live on capitol hill tonight. of course there is a lot of late night drama going on about how to keep the government

they have listed donald trump, donald trump junior, ivanka trump and michael cohen amongst many other witnesses. on trump side, they're saying trump wants to testify, he's going to testify in this case. of course, that always is a trial decision. so, we won't really know until we get there. but, the office indicates they want to call them, we might see them actually walk through those doors and take the witness stand. >> stay with us, care. i want to bring in two attorneys, two former federal prosecutors just go rob and cnn senior legal analyst elie honig. jessica, first of all, are you surprised the former president is not going to try and get this georgia casey with federal court? >> i was surprised, but then when i thought it through i thought it made sense. a strategic decision on his lawyers part. they clearly saw the writing on the wall that they were unlikely to prevail and moving to remove the case to federal court. they were following the meadows case, meadows obviously lost and trump in many ways had a weaker claim than meadows did. so, they clearly decided it was better to

the list of witnesses that the attorney generals office has submitted includes trump, includes ivanka trumpudes arnold donald trump jr., and eric trump as well. do you think we can actually see trump himself testify? >> i think it would be a really bad idea for him to testify, so i think he will probably stay off the stand. i think the arguments they want to make they can put forth without him having to put himself on the stand that way. it's a very complex unraveling. it's still a little bit unclear how the judges rulings are going to get input implemented. but, no question, the judges has really illustrated the heart of this defense which is that these were valid evaluations i was making and that's completely gone. >> his own attorneys were asking what's the point of us going to trial. obviously, there's other things to judge could rule on, further penalties potentially facing trump. >> it just become a damages question at this point, what kind of penalty there is going to be, and as always, trump's his own worst enemy, which is the sorts of exaggerations he was making. they're so easily

ivanka trump is doing business with the chinese while working in the white house. totally beautiful. why do i bring that up? they want to say you have credibility. the problem is they have none. they have no credibility pick and because you are here at their behest, their lack of credibility questions your credibility. not because if you personally, but because of what they had done over the last several years the chairman says you are credible. you want to know actually what they feel about you? people like you who work in government? i have pages of it. it goes on for years. i will read a couple of adjectives. trump has called people like you, so-called whistleblowers, fake whistleblowers. partisan people. political hack jobs. >>'s, frauds, traders, cowards, spies, losers, clouds, bugs, puppets, unelected bureaucrats, the swamp and my favorite, the deep state are you members of the deep state? did you stop paying -- it's a rhetorical question. did you stop paying your deep state dues? did you not attend the latest deep state meeting? is that why you're not in the

sons are not ivanka, and jared and the money they received from saudi arabia, a couple billion dollars since they left the white house to invest. it is interesting that in this, it's donald trump, and it's the sons, and she has managed to stay away from this. >> correct. association one of the things that has happened since all of these cases have begun is we have seen ivanka and jared distance themselves, and clearly she has separated herself. i don't know if she was part of the trump business exactly. but can we also put this in the perspective of his voters and his supporters? we have not seen any of these other cases erode support among his base. in fact, he's gone up in the polls. i'm curious about this one because it speaks to what he has sold himself. >> right. >> when he says i am the most successful person. >> and now apparently not so much. >> right. they can read it for themselves. i don't know whether they will, harry. but they can. >> yeah, it's a very thorough opinion. and the judge, he's writing for a number of audiences. first, the parties and the lawyers. secondly, the appeals court that's going to scrutinize this very, very carefully. but i think the judge is

on that list, donald trump, eric trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and michael cohen, among others. cohen is the one that kicked off this whole investigation when he testified before congress in april of 2019 and made the allegations that the trump organization inflated the value of their assets. so he's going to be one of their witnesses as well as some others. now, trump's side is saying that they're going to call as many as 127 possible witnesses including trump. so saying that he wants to testify in this case in his own defense. of course we never know who's going to take the stand until it comes down to that moment, but we're looking at a number of witnesses here and many of them with the last name trump. >> all right. kara scannell, thank you so much. really appreciate it. joining us to discuss, nick akerman, a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. nick, would you be surprised if trump or his eldest sons were called to testify? or are you expecting that? >> oh, i'm expecting that. if i were the a.g., i would pop them up on the stand almost imme

first of all those lists include donald trump himself, his adult children, don jr., eric and ivanka trump. interesting to note. in a criminal case prosecutors cannot subpoena,s for the defendant to take the stand. violates the fifth amendment right's in a civil case they can. if that happens trump and his children have two choices. testify. risky, though. saw donald trump's deposition in the case. a disaster. but they can also take the fifth amendment, but in a civil case, any take the tfifth amendment te judge can consider that against them. >> lack of intent, lack of knowledge, the defense? >> a couple. donald trump argued and will continue to argue sense of real estate, objectivity. the judge said not by 25 times. also going to argue trump's team they are waivers, what they called the worthless clause saying our numbers here, worthless. don't pay attention to them. judge said, that worthless clause itself is worthless. then finally, trump's team will argue, no victim, no loss. >> repaid the loans? >> got 3paid back with interest. doesn't matter for the ag but it will matter for the oth

they have listed donald trump, donald trump jr., eric trump, ivanka trump, and michael cohen, among manyr witnesses. and trump's side, they saying trump wants to testify, that he is going to testify many this case. of course, that always is a trial decision so, we won't really know until we get there. but the ag's office indicates they want to call them. so we might see them walk through the doors and take the witness stand. >> cara, stay with us. i want to bring in two attorneys. two former federal prosecutors from the southern district of new york, jessica roth and elie honig. first of all, are you surprised the former president is not going to try to get this georgia case moved to federal court? >> i was surprised initially. but then when i thought it true, i thought it made sense as a strategic decision on his lawyers' part. they probably saw the writing on the wall that they were unlikely to prevail to move the case to federal court. they were following the meadows case. meadows obviously lost and trump had a weaker claim than meadows did. they clearly decided it was better to conse

witnesses expected to be called in the fraud trial of donald trump, eric trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trumpberg, alan garten, eric brunette of the trump org. what do you know about that list that we should be prepared to be watching for as this gets under way? >> well, you know, to tee off of your intro from the e. jean carroll debacle, the fact that three trumps are on that list is bad news for the defense because donald trump is a lawyer's worst nightmare under deposition. he is prone to show off, to exaggerate, to get combative. he does everything a lawyer doesn't want someone to do during a deposition. and now he's probably going to do the sail thing in a court -- same thing in a courtroom. eric and don jr. have shown themselves routinely to be sort of unrestrained buffoons around a lot of this. last thursday when the judge issued the ruling and had specifics about the overvaluation of certain properties, you know, eric took it upon himself to go on twitter and inflate the value of mar-a-lago in a social media post, doing exactly the very thing that this case is about. that the trumps r

it's not ivanka trump. so it's just not a big deal for them. the always petulant congressman and biden super fan, this idiot from new york, dan golden, is much more infatuated with hatred of legal scholar, professor jonathan turley. why's that? because professor jonathan turley always exposes golden for who he truly is. a complete idiot. >> mr. turley, he said 19 that impeachment requires a clear criminal act, is that right? >> no. in the trump impeachment i said repeatedly can impeach someone for noncriminal conduct. what i said then, i am saying that which is i strongly encourage you to look. >> that testimony is there. you can't. i have ten seconds left. you have said that lying is a president is not impeachable. you have said that there is an influence peddling campaign but you willing knowledge, will you not, that in order to have a criminal act of public corruption or bribery, there must be under mcdonnell an official act in connection to some sort of personal benefit. isn't that right? >> the gentleman's time has expired. please answer t

talk over his daddy's business after chris christie thrown in the clinic, and then he married ivanka trump, that is about all it took for him to get placed and one of the most powerful positions in the world. senior adviser to the president of the united states. one of the highest level jobs in the white house, kushner had access to some of the nation's top intelligence that he dealt with all sorts of foreign governments, parallel state department, basically. he oversaw u. s. foreign policy in the middle east, because why not? he's my son-in-law. but his relationship with saudi arabia student in particular. what happened six months after he left the government, the private equity fund received two billion dollars, with a b, for saudi arabia. the crown chair [inaudible], republicans continue to obsess over hunter biden whether he traded his last name for access and money there is a real question as to why did jared kushner get billions of dollars from mbs? some democrats are saying, that guy's laptop, let's see it. back in february, congressman jamie raskin, ranking member of the oversight

there's a moscow-based financier, american, who is friendly with jared and ivanka trump.d them real estate. he's dead. he fell from a luxury apartment building. police concluded that was not foul play. kremlin, of course, denies any role in his death. this is a case you've been focused on. what do you think possibly happened? >> well, we don't know. but the point of the matter is this, is that this is a suspicious incident that occurred during the conflict in ukraine. this man was involved in that. and we can't expect the metropolitan police department, who have no counterintelligence background, that don't understand active measures, that don't understand the other things that occur around shootings, which are clues. that's why i say it's time to increase the authorities of the fbi to be able to assist. as bill chase, the former special agent in charge of the baltimore field office said in the interview, we didn't have a predicate to go forward. we need to develop an opportunity to allow local law enforcement the support they need to conclude investigations properly. >>

it's worth noting ivanka trump is the only one not barred from doing business in the state just becausea separate ruling, she won a fight with the courts and was thrown out. but the three of them, two of his sons and he will no longer be involved in the businesses. i just think that's going take a while to play out in court, and also it's going to need definition from the court on what it means. some of the assets that are named, there are companies where there are assets outside of the state. what does all this mean? and trump's side was in court this week just trying to get some clarity on this. and the other thing, i just want to make one note about trump testifying, and that is that he has given another deposition in this case where he actually did testify, and it kind of gives you any idea, there is one where he took the fifth and there was another one where he did testify. and parts of it appeared quite unhinged. he was taking credit for averting nuclear war and he was meandering everywhere. he is saying his properties are the mona lisas and are just impossible to value. you just

i don't know. [ laughter ] ivanka trump announced that she will not be a part of her father's campaign wants to spend more time away from her family. [ laughter ] she said in a statement, "while i will always love and support my father, going forward i will do so outside the political arena." [ applause ] most likely from the other side of the glass on a prison phone. but i don't know. he can't do this without ivanka. that's like rebooting "sex and the city" without samantha. [ laughter ] i mean, you need that character. only one politician showed up last night, north carolina representative madison cawthorn, but that's just because he heard there was going to be an orgy afterwards. [ laughter ] even creepy matt gaetz didn't go. he claimed it was because of the weather, but i hear he was online trying to get his girlfriend taylor swift tickets. [ laughter ] but you know who was there? none other than the pride of mankato, minnesota, mr. mike lindell. mr. mypillow was on the scene all fired and up raging against the machines. >> well, nowadays it's like, i'm sorry, you don't get to audi

i do not remember james comer being up in arms what ivanka trump caught a flurry of -- from china whilend her father were working at the white house. let's not forget it was the trump organization that was found guilty less than a year ago of attacks filed scheme, new york attorney general is suing tunnel trump and his company, and his family -- -- on jared kushner or his firm, think again. there was the gop response, and quote. ranking member raskin's to chairman corner is nothing more than an attempt to distract from the mounting evidence of joe biden's involvement and his family influence peddling schemes. ranking member raskin is only concerned about playing biden family defense lawyer and quote. what's the back to us where we can find the mounting evidence. can find the mounting evidence can find the mounting evidence for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops. with two times more menthol per drop, and powerful vicks vapors to vaporize sore throat pain. vicks vapocool drops. vaporize sore throat pain. (man) mm, hey, honey. vicks vapocool drops. looks like my to-do list g

second thing to charge this president's son with this bad behavior when you know individuals like ivanka trumpshington, d.c., manipulated and grifted their way through d.c. when they were in the white house with no accountability, i think it rubs people the wrong way. so that's just kind of the playing field of where we are today. >> just point of fact, they have not been -- the individuals you just name have had not been charged with crimes. >> obviously hunter biden is tied to the impeachment inquiry, which is not about the gun charge but in terms of the ties to his father and what republicans allege, i was interested in something the former president said last night in the snip pet of the interview released by nbc about the genesis of this impeachment inquiry. take a listen. >> i think had they not done it to me, then i'm very popular in the region, they like me and i like them, the republican party. perhaps you wouldn't have it being done to them. and this is going to happen with indictments, too. fake indictments. and i think you're going to see that as time goes by. you're going to see r

only sent out a couple of tweets reluctantly so after the begging and pleading of his daughter ivanka trumpich is something i testified to when i testify before the january six committee. he also sent out that infamous video that took place three hours after the capitol attack started so he did, like i said, in a way, act, as i mentioned, in that interview with meet the press. he only did so reluctantly. and hours after the attack again. this is something he was known to do. he was known to sit and consume tv for hours on end, in that dining room. i think that based on my interactions with people who were inside that dining room with him that day, that checks out to be true. obviously, molly attested to that is well. >> former deputy trump white house press secretary, sarah matthews. it's awfully good to speak with you. thank you so much for your time and insights. here's a programming note for all of you, monday, rachel maddow will sit down with former white house aide, catches the hatches, and for her first live interview since serving as a key witness in the january six hearings. monday

almost believe the republicans if they would have opened an investigation into jared kushner and ivanka trumpat they did while they're in the white house. you could almost say that they were genuine about looking into all this, but that is not the case. ronaldo, if you go back in january 2020, the trump logistics department formally declare that impeachment inquiries by the house are invalid unless the chamber takes formal votes to authorize them. that move, actually, came after that house speaker, nancy pelosi, launched an impeachment inquiry into trump without initially holding any votes for it. let's say that the biden doj plays this trump card, and chooses not to cooperate. what do you think happens in a court? >> i do think that the house would go to court to court. ultimately, they would likely be put in a position where, i, think they would want to take a vote in order to strengthen their legal position. obviously, we just heard a moment ago they may not have those votes. so ultimately, this may, you know, this may be something where the republicans ultimately don't push the white hous

let's not forget the 40 trademarks or so that ivanka trump, senior white house official, got during theinistration. you're not on the oversight committee, you're on the weaponization committee. >> yes. >> so -- >> projection. >> right, how does this impeachment inquiry differ from whatever it is y'all are doing on the weaponization committee. >> unfortunately, what i think we're gonna see is everybody raising their hand on the republican party saying, well, i haven't done anything in my district, i haven't helped the american people, can i have a piece of the impeachment inquiry? so, kevin mccarthy is force now to expand this to everyone. you're gonna see stuff in the ways and means committee, if you can believe it, with jason smith also trying to be involved. the oversight committee, judiciary committee. let's not forget what they think they're going to get out of mayorkas in the impeachment there. homeland security as well. let's spread the wealth, everybody, speaker mccarthy says, because i don't have anything else for you to be able to show to your constituents that the base that yo

whether it's jared kushner and ivanka trump or whether it's hunter biden or senator's child or cousin or stupid brother, you name. it happens, it happens too often. and i think there needs to be -- or whether it's clarence thomas. there needs to be clarifications, and this needs to be tightened up so people know the difference between legal and illegal and they don't get -- they don't cross those gray areas. >> is the solution term limits? i mean, if this town sticks to high heaven as it seems to really stick to high heaven these days, is it time for term limits? not just on capitol hill but for justices on the supreme court? i mean, the allegations you just mentioned, allegations against clarence thomas are just growing. >> i'm not -- i'm not a fan of term limits because i think it then opens the door for a bunch of people who are not -- who don't know the institution, have no institutional -- for example we're looking at mitt romney who has imposed term limits on himself because of his age. the problem is that the people -- the younger ones aren't all that good either. a lot of them

you know, this lawsuit takes the control away from he and his family members except notably for ivanka trumps not part of this. she can still continue to do business in the state. >> so, the fact that the judge -- i don't know if you -- canceled his business certificates, what does that mean? >> it goes back, it is all kind of one of a piece. he is now in a position where receiver is going to be over these businesses and they can't conduct business in the state. they are fighting this in court, so there will be appeals, but in the meantime, when this happens, they don't usually say, well, the fraudsters can stay in charge while the appeals play out. that's not going to happen. the receiver is going to be put in place, and will be overseeing the operation of these assets while this plays out. and monday is going to be another day we should be looking forward to. it is october 2nd, on monday, there is still going to be a trial happening, even though this main count has been decided. it is a civil trial, it is from the bench, there is no jury. so the judge said, what he essentially said yesterd

they plan to call 28 witnesses, donald trump, donald trump jr., eric trump, ivanka, eric cohen. he said at the time he believed the trump organization and former president has inflated the value of assets and that's what the judge found this week. trump's attorneys have a list that includes 127 people, also including the former president trump. so it is likely he could be called as a witness in this case. now, the new york attorney general's office following the court ruling this afternoon saying we are ready for trial and look forward to presenting the rest of our case. we have not heard back from the trump side tonight for comment. >> thanks very much. let's discuss all of these major developments. joining us now, cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig and cnn senior law enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe. on the breaking news, what's behind trump's decision not to try to move his georgia state case to federal court? >> well, this one was a genuine strategic stunner in my view. there were plenty of good reasons why donald trump would want to be in federal court starting with the

i am calling about he ivanka trump. she is in malley, visiting the victims of the fire out there. it is not a big story, but it meant a lot to me that she is out there, not getting a photo op, just out there helping. i think that is great. host: pat is on our democrats line from michigan. caller: on the ongoing issue come up return -- pertaining to the strikers, i want to tell a quick story. my husband and i drove a semi truck for 25 years for a company. i will not name them. we were hazmat endorsed. we hold explosives, flammables, poisons, salon on and so forth. we also had security clearing. high-security loads. we both retired as 2,000,000 mile accident free drivers. the reason why we retired is because it was announced that our company was finally going to give a raise. then we found out that it was everyone under the 1,000,000 mile mark. we were 2 million. host: specifically, how does that relate to the strike? caller: because we worked for a nonunion company. i had no one to go to. i had no one to speak for me. so when you belong to a union company and you are using 90's, an

like to get on the trump family, i have stayed at trump hotels and i know girls who have bought ivanka trumps products. they had a business. joe biden has only made $30,000 a year and somehow he is a millionaire? i believe one of the first things he did was assign a book deal for several million dollars, making about 11 -- was signed a book deal for several million dollars, making about $11 million. he past that monday through corporations without paying any tax at all on it. he is a crook. he was a crook from the get go. host: this is the wall street journal, kimberly with an opinion piece. she writes white engage in an impeachment inquiry? without it, the country may never get the tru the white house and media keep changing the definition of joe settled on the line there is no evidence directly linking 's business dealings with his dad. it is notable to which the biden family hav to deny investigators the dos they would need toermine whether such evidence exists. that fight will become more vicious as they move to their next stage. house republicans will need all the firepower they can get.

like to get on the trump family, i have stayed at trump hotels and i know girls who have bought ivanka trumps products. they had a business. joe biden has only made $30,000 a year and somehow he is a millionaire? i believe one of the first things he did was assign a book deal for several million dollars, making about 11 -- was signed a book deal for several million dollars, making about $11 million. he past that monday through corporations without paying any tax at all on it. he is a crook. he was a crook from the get go. host: this is the wall street journal, kimberly with an opinion piece she writes white engage in an impeachment inqui? without it, the country may never getruth the white house and media keep changinghe definition of joe biden's culpability and settled on the line there is no hunter's business dealings with his dad. it is notable to which the biden faave gone toy investigatordocuments they would need to determine whether such evidence exists. that fight will become more vicious as they move to their next stage. house republicans will need all the firepower they can get. davi

it still does not compare to ivanka trump getting chinese patents while she is in office and what jared like to see all of that stuff investigated on hunter's side, jared's side. it should all be there. to focus on hunter now and say it is grounds for impeachment seems to be absurd overkill, wearing blinders about trump's own conflict of interest that are ongoing at the moment. host: 10 minutes left with david corn of mother jones this morning. baltimore, maryland, independent. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning, mr. corn. i love what you are saying. one of my favorite guests in a long time. i wanted to comment. you used the word transactional earlier to refer to trump's relationship with his base, how he says i will get you what you want, just vote for me and put me in office. i would like to see some of that from democrats, especially when they say trump is so dangerous -- he is a fascist. maybe the reason to call back -- the reason people are not flocking to the democrats, they are not delivering on material benefit for them. maybe, i cannot by groceries on a low unemployment r

it still does not compare to ivanka trump getting chinese patents while she is in office and what jaredike to see all of that stuff investigated on hunter's side, jared's side. it should all be there. to focus on hunter now and say it is grounds for impeachment seems to be absurd overkill, wearing blinders about trump's own conflict of interest that are ongoing at the moment. host: 10 minutes left with david corn of mother jones this morning. baltimore, maryland, independent. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning, mr. corn. i love what you are saying. one of my favorite guests in a long time. i wanted to comment. you used the word transactional earlier to refer to trump's relationship with his base, how he says i will get you what you want, just vote for me and put me in office. i would like to see some of that from democrats, especially when they say trump is so dangerous -- he is a fascist. maybe the reason to call back -- the reason people are not flocking to the democrats, they are not delivering on material benefit for them. maybe, i cannot by groceries on a low unemployment rat

or eric or er biden ivanka or barron. trump. there is no equal justic ge, no equal application of our laws. this is corruption. >> and through and this is what the biden protection racket is allhe bidenackets a about. joe biden, merrick garland. you know what? this is why need new people? joining us now with the very latest, editor in chiew peoplef and investigative reporter, just the news.com, john solomon. >> john, thank you. good to be with you, john. all right. wh we have a morgan stanley whistleblower raising concerns to the bank and federalk regulators about fraudulent schemes, suspicious transactions, due diligencs tre involved parties reveals less than clean records. tell us abou s.t your latest column, an investigative report. >> wele reportl in your monolog, you noted that david weiss was was for, o the action today as measly as it is by whistleblowers. those brave irs whistleblowermer as gary shapley and others, they came forward. they made a big differencewaand right? this is a new whistleblower. what it tells us i.s

trump is bigly upset right now because the house wants to chat with his daughter, ivanka, to hear what knows about the insurrection. trump did an interview with "the washington examiner." he blasted that decision. he said they're using these things to try and get people's minds off how incompetently our country is being run, and they don't care. they'll go after children. he knows ivanka is 40, right? i know he missed a lot of birthdays, but he's got to -- you can't call them "children" and also put them in charge of peace in the middle east, it's one or the other. this i thought was interesting. trump's former lawyer michael cohen said that trump told him if it ever came down to ivanka or don jr. going to jail, make sure it was don jr. because he would do better in there. if you're ranking how well your children would do in prison, maybe it's time to sell the family business. i don't know. don jr., the son was on facebook this weekend in another sad and maybe even clouded attempt to earn just a little nugget of daddy's love. >> can't put joe biden in the same room as someone. he might

trump's children don jr., ivanka and eric also named, as are michael cohen and allen weisselberg. ed his witness list, which contains 127 names of fact witnesses. joining us now, catherine christian, msnbc legal analyst and former manhattan district attorney. great seeing you. how do you assess the witness lists? >> well, first of all, it is a civil trial, so people who are, like, trying to figure out how can the prosecutor call the defendant, it is a civil trial. so, a plaintiff and that's the ag's office can call the defendant to the stand. it is risky. why? because it is not your witness. it is considered an adverse or hostile witness. your witness is you spend time with them, you prepare them, you go to the questions you're going to ask them, you know what their answers are going to be, you have no clue when you call the defendant and the other defendants, what is going to come out of their mouth. but it can be a smart decision because you -- if you do it the right way, you just limit your questions to what you know the answers to. and you hope the witness, though this is impos

the new york attorney general released a list of witnesses, including trump himself and his children, ivanka, eric and don jr. how do you all see this playing out? >> well, the situation is different in a civil case because unlike in a criminal case where donald trump has the right to take the fifth amendment without injuring his own case, in a civil case you get what is called an adverse inference. that means if donald trump refuses to testify, if he's called, he takes the fifth amendment. under certain circumstances the judge can say i'm going to hold that against you, mr. trump. we will see how these issues play out. i think trump this is a world of hurt in this civil fraud case. what is more important to him, pam, than his businesses, his brand and his name? that is being taken away from him it seems by the judge in this case. >> the receivership is really going to be harmful. it's up on appeal is how they're still operating. this hits the pocket books of not only the companies, but the individuals and the civil justice system, he's got to testify. i know there are exceptions, but the ki