. >> well, to that end, trump and i believe eric trump had to testify and answer questions about his net worth. that was in august. both trump and his son took the fifth, over 400 times. trump took it 440 times. eric took it over 500 times. that is meaningful in a civil case, is it not? and with all of the documents, the aforementioned documents we just discussed? >> it is. all of us have a fifth amendment right to avoid answering questions that might incriminate us in a criminal case. a criminal prosecutor can obtain the transcripts as use that for a prosecution. so we all enjoy that right. if this were a criminal case, the statements could not even be introduced to a jury. they couldn't even know that the person had invoked their fifth amendment right. they may an inference from the fact this they invoked the fifth amendment right. when the personok is asked whetr they have an honest explanation for the allegations, they invoked their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. that can be a powerful inference in the cases. it doesn't make the whole case. if you have other evi

>> filing a lawsuit against former president donald trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and eric trump. >> documents don't lie, and documents don't forget. >> this is tough, tough stuff for the trump organization. there's no question, this is a dark day for them. >> dark and tough for them because of the exhaustive receipts. the lawsuit has over 200 fraudulent actions or misleading valuations. the penalties could go up to a quarter billion. trump and his children could be barred from doing business not only at the trump org but from running any new york company. that's one of the punishments that james is seeking. the family and organization could also not be allowed to get money anymore, to get liquidity, to get bank funding in new york, a big deal. trump has always said he's a deal maker, and let's be clear. he convinced a lot of people with understandable props, actions, funds, support from the banks, at times the new york legal and governmental community, really largely looking the other way, and by the way, that includes a lot of registered democrats in new york who fill out some

as executive vice presidents of the trump organization, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and eric trumpnowingly participated in the scheme, indeed the fraudulent scheme was integral to the business of the trump organization and required the participation of trump and his children as well. joining me now is msnbc news correspondent tom winter. and an msnbc contributor. let me start you with and kind of give us the broad strike if you will, for the children's involvement in this suit. >> well, i mean they are tied definitely to this because they have had an active role in the business, and just to pick up on an interesting conversation you were just having, as far as the long term impacts on the trump organization, the banks that currently hold the loans now, they might decide, you know what, we're going to keep going with this, we have a lawsuit and we like the terms of it and keep going from there, and they may have covenants in those agreements that they may have to come back to the trumps and do something different with the loans, but going forward, i think, and this is important, as

both trump and his son, eric, took the fifth. for, over 400 times. i think trump took it 440 times. eric took it over 500 times. that is meaningful in a civil case, is it not? with all of the documents, the affirmation documents, we discussed. >> it is, you know, all of us have a fifth amendment right to avoid answering questions that might incriminate us in a criminal case. you know, if they answered questions in the civil case, a criminal prosecutor could obtain those transcripts and use that as a basis for a prosecution. so, we all enjoy that right. and if this were a criminal case, those statements could not even be introduced to a jury. they could not even know that the person had invoked their fifth amendment right against self incrimination. that is not true in a civil case. a jury may draw an adverse inference from the fact that someone invoke their fifth amendment right. so, the jury would be told when the person was asked whether they have an honest explanation for these allegations, they invoked their fifth amendment right against self incrimination. so, that could be a po

help of the other defendants, is children -- his children, donald trump, jr., if ivanka trump, and eric trump, and the former trump cfo. mr. trump and the trump organization repeatedly and insistently inflated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the trump organization on more favorable terms than would have otherwise been available to the company, to pay lower taxes, to satisfy continuing loan agreements and insist insurance companies provide insurance for lower premiums. his conduct was in violation of executive law section 63.12, which gives the attorney general broad and special powers to go after resistant and repeated fraud and illegality. as part of demonstrating illegality under that section of law, we show that they violated several state criminal laws, including falsifying business records, issuing falls financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged violated several criminal laws, including issuing false statements to financial institutions and bank fraud. and we are re

high spoke with eric trump the night of that raid, let's take a look. >> sean: eric, you were with yourolding? >> it was, sean, i was the guy that got the call this morning and then called my father to let him know that it happened so i was involved in this whole thing. you know, welcome to politics in the 2000s. my father never got so much as a speeding ticket in his life. until he made one decision, that's a good on escalators at mar-a-lago and spend a lot of money and go and actually fight for this country for the first time, and he did a better job than anybody has ever done, and they started coming after him. "the washington post," the day he won, 2016, the day he won, november 8th, that meant they wrote an article, this is when impeachment begins. he wasn't president. he hadn't been elected for 5 minutes at that point and they start -- this is when impeachment begins, and he's in pinch to the first time and then he was impeached the second time. and they slandered him, they belittled him. they went after him. they went after all of us. there's no family in american history that is

this with the help of the other defendants and his children, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and eric trump former trump organization cfo allen weisselberg. mr. trump and the trump organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the trump organization on more favorable terms than otherwise would have been available to the company. to pay lower taxes, to satisfy continuing loan agreements and to induce insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums. his conduct was all in violation of executive law section 63.12 which gives the attorney general broad and special powers, to go after persistent and repeated fraud and illegality. as part of demonstrating ill legality under that law, they violated several state criminal laws including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law, including issuing false sta

did this with the help of his other defendants, his children donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and eric trump and former trump organization cfo allen weissleberg and yesry mcconny. mr. trump and the trump organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the trump organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company. to pay lower taxes to satisfy continuing loan agreements and to induce insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums his conduct was all in violation of executive law section 6312. which gives the attorney general broad and special powers to go after persistent and repeated fraud and illegality as part of demonstrating illegality under that section of law 6321 we show they violated several state criminal laws. including falsifying business records. issuing false financial statements insurance fraud. and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal cri

ivanka trump, eric trump, serving as an officer in any corporation or similar entity registered or licensed in new york. to bar mr. trump and the trump organization from entering into any new york state commercial real estate acquisition or from applying for loans from any financial institution in new york for five years. to pay for the financial benefits obtained as a result of the persistent fraudulent practices at an estimated $250 mil million. towards the end of my remarks, i will go into the other relief we are seeking. at the center of this -- of the years-long financial scheme were the statements of financial condition that were prepared annually by and for mr. trump specifically from 2011 through 2021, the statements were compiled by the trump organization executives and issued as a compilation report by mr. trump's accounting firm. the statements are explicit that the preparation was the responsibility of mr. trump. starting in 2016, the trustees of his trust, donald trump junior and allen weisselberg for the sole benefit of mr. donald trump. each statement was personally certified

and , eric trump with us. as you look at biden's speech about maga republicans, and democratic party election denial, a thing they say is a threat to democracy, it's funny when you go back and say "they are guilty of the thing they feign outrage over, aren't they?" >> i was shocked by that speech. i used to think that he was senile and incompetent, but now i think he's angry, senile, and incompetent. what i can tell you i'm proud of is that i saw that crowded northeast pennsylvania this weekend, and it was unbelievable: the love, the chanting, the patriotism, the american flags, the love for america. it was incredible. then, you see biden who was a -- there a day earlier. a massive arena, and then there were overflowing crowds outside. there is so much love and patriotism in this country. the administration right now -- they say trump is a fascist. it's funny considering you are having your fbi and the doj rated his home while, at the same time, suppressing stories about his crooked son. america understands wh

don junior, 44 years old, ivanka, 40 years old, eric trump, 38. hardly considered children, in the eyes of the law. joyce, what do you make of this potential responsibilities for business dealings, like any other adult, and they played a role in the trump organization, at one point or another. >> they are adults, they've been running a business with multi million dollar deals, ivanka trump was a senior adviser, to the president of the united states. this ongoing use of the word children, to describe them, is outrageous. it suggests an entirely next level, and layer of deception. these are people who are responsible for their own misconduct, it was also whether someone decides there were criminal. they have a father, most people do, this is one of the many ways that trump uses language, and gets those around him. it is who they were a strange strung. they get them to use language. it is very exculpatory. it tries to excuse people from engaging in conduct that is inexcusable. i'm glad that tish james, the attorney general who is prosecuting this case

well, eric trump, i don't know r . i think arigi fleischer's rightt if you watch what they've done over the years, they don't get the benefit of the doubt toe anymore because they lied and they tried to take your father out for three yearsr and they used a dirty hillary yo dossier to do itn . they spied on him illegally.l nobody wasth held accountable. t shere wasn't held accountable. no raid on hunter's house. they had the laptop longer thany anybody. directory. oh, i don't know anythinthing an a laptop. ly poe we certainly hav a politicized department of justicstice, te, no doubt aboutu >>s eric trump, thank you for being with us tonight. appreciate it. itand up next, senator joshtor o hawley got intsho a very tensers exchange with a berkeley lawor professor about who can get pregnant. we w i never thought i'd debateil this. we will next. >> today, rising prices are everywhere at nutrisystem. we believe this shouldn't stop you from losing weight and living healthier. that's why for a limited time, we're dropping our

then there's the new $250 million civil lawsuit against mn jr., and eric trump brought by letitia james. mr. trump slamming the suit by james, a democrat, as a politically motivated witch hunt >> she campaigned on it four years ago. it was a vicious campaign and she just talked about trump and we're going to thedite him, we're going to get him >> reporter: james is accusing mr. trump of inflating his assets to get more favorable loans and better taxates >> a pattern of fraud an deception used by mr. trump and the trump organization for their own financial benefit is astounding >> reporter: one example she cites mr. trump's 212-acre estate outside manhattan bought for $7.5 million that was later valued at nearly $300 million on what james says were false claims that it had been zoned for mansions but mr. trump argues the banks were responsible for their own valuations >> these are banks that have the best law firms in the world, the biggest and best andost powerful they do their own work they don't rely on us. >> reporter: meanwhile we're learning the wife of the supreme court justice cl

eric trump. r, similar entity registered and are licensed in new york. to bar mister trump. and the trump organization from entering into any new york state commercial real estate acquisition or from applying for loans from any financial institution in new york. for 5 years. to pay for the financial benefits obtaining. as a result of the persistent fraudulent practices at estimated 250 million dollars. and towards the end of iraq, my remarks, i will go into the other. relief that we're seeking. at the center of this of the year. long's financial scheme with the statements of finding financial condition. that we're prepared annually by and 4, mister trump. specifically from 2011, 2, 2021. the statements were compiled by the trump organization executives and were issued as a compilation report by mister trump's accounting firm. the statements are explicit that the preparation was the responsibility. mister trump. we're starting in 2016. the trustees. of his trust. donald trump junior and allen weiss

donald trump, jr., ivanka trump, and eric trump. former trump organization cfo, allen weisselberg, and the controller, jeffrey mccartney. maryam: donald trump said the move is a political witchhunt and called her a racist and a fraud. here we are in new york with more on those allegations. >> i'm standing right outside of trump ter in new york, and this is part of the allegations, because the new york state attorney general says the former president made 200 false statements about the value of his assets, inflating them, and thated to them netting $250 million. she referred to the famous book "the art of the deal," saying, claiming money you don't have is not the art of the deal, it is the part of the steel. this -- the steal. this was set at being 30,000 square feet, when it's under 11,000. the property was valued at $327 million. no apartment in new york has sold as much. that was one example of what she says is a long set of evidence she has against the former president. this is a very serious legal matter because, while it is a c

the former president and his son eric trump declined to answer questions hundreds of times. but this is what brought us all to this moment today, the culmination of this investigation that the new york attorney general credited michael cohen with. >> there's also this parallel criminal investigation being conducted by the district attorney of manhattan. this is separate and distinct. what do we know about that? >> right. this investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office is parallel in nature. involves a lot of the same sorts of potential allegations. in a criminal case, the burden of proof is much higher than in a civil case. the manhattan d.a. initially slowed down this investigation when he took over the office earlier this year. according to sources, he didn't believe they had enough proof to prove the former president intentionally was involved with the valuations on these properties. today, we got a strong statement from him. he said, our criminal investigation concerning former president donald j. trump, the trump organization and its leadership is active

that she's filing a lawsuit against former president trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump and the trump organization for what she describes as a deliberate pattern of bank, tax and insurance fraud going back years identifying more than 200 alleged violations that include trump allegedly falsely doubling, tripling or even more the values of his properties to gain financial advantage. >> fraud and deception used by

donald trump, junior, ivanka trump, and eric trump but, and former trump organization ceo alan weissenbergand the trump organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets, to induce banks to lend money to the trump organization on more favorable terms than what would have otherwise been available to the company. to pay lower taxes. to satisfy continuing loan agreements, and to reduce insurance companies to provide insurance covers for hire limits and lower premiums. his conduct was all in violation of federal law, section 63, paragraph 12. which gives the attorney general brought special powers to go after persistent and repeated fraud illegality. as part of demonstrating illegality on that section of lost 60 3:12, we show that they violated several state criminal laws. including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law, including issuing false statements to financial instit

and eric trump posting video of james vowing to sue mr. trump, even before she was elected. >> will you sue him? >> we're definitely going to sue him. we're going to be a real pain in the ass. >> reporter: tonight, the trump organization says was no bank harmed, they profited handsomely and saying the loans are either current or have been paid off. >> peter, as we noted, this is a civil lawsuit. james is not charging mr. trump or his children with any crime. >> reporter: that's right. james has sent a referral to the federal prosecutor in manhattan and to the irs. james said, our door is open. >> peter alexander, thank you. for more, i want to bring in legal analyst danny cevallos. this is one of many cases we've seen circling the latest president. how is this one fundamentally different? >> it's fundamentally different because of the extent of the factual allegations, and you could argue, the receipts, the documents that the new york attorney general has obtained, even though we haven't seen them in this complaint, we know they're out ther

and eric trump brought by new york attorney general letitia james mr. trump slamming the suit by james, a democrat, as a politically motivated witch hunt. >> she campaigned on it four years ago, it was vicious campaign and she just talked about trump and we're going to indict him, we're going to get him. >> reporter: james is accusing mr. trump of inflating his assets to get more favorable loans and better tax rates >> pattern of fraud and deception that was used mr. trump and the trump organization for their own financial develop is astounding. >> reporter: one example she cite, mr. trump's 212 acre estate outside manhattan bought for $7.5 million that was later valued at nearly $300 million, on what james said were false claims, that it had been zoned for mansions. but mr. trump argued that the banks were responsible for their own valuations >> these are banks that have the best law firms in the world, the biggest and best and most powerful, they do their own work, they don't rely on us. >> reporter: meanwhile we're learning ginni thomas, the wife of s

is calling this a political witch hunt, which is being shared and echoed by his sons as well and eric trump pushed back against the $75 million value estimate for mar-a-lago. the trump organization says not only was no bank harmed, they profited handsomely saying the loans are either current or paid off. donald trump offered this defense last night on fox news >> what we do is here is the financial statement but be careful because it may not be accurate, it may be way off. i mean, we go i think it's close to a page and a half of all of these things, get your own people, use your own appraisers, use your own lawyers, don't rely on us. and then she sued us now, again, i didn't think this would ever happen because they had no case. i met with them. i actually thought they wanted to settle but i didn't want to settle because -- even if i paid a very small amount, you're sort of admitting guilt >> reporter: did she offer you a settlementdeal >> in my opinion i could have settled the case >> and mr. trump spoke about another investigation, the mar-a-lago document probe by the justice department t

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as executive vice presidents of the trump organization, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trumpso aware of and knowingly participated in the scheme. as executive vice presidents, the three children were intimately involved in the operation of the trump organization's business. they were aware of the true financial performance of the company, whether through donald trump jr.'s work on commercial leasing, ivanka trump's work on doral, trump chicago and opo, or eric trump's work on the golf course portfolio, which, of course, brought us the great revelation that they had all the money they needed from russia. is this the civil version of the kind of evidence that would be marshaled in a rico investigation and prosecution? >> yeah, look, it's pretty close. and a rico would show that they themselves were a criminal organization. but what is this? it's the equivalent, but as to the trump brand, which has always been so important to him and, of course, to his children. basically, it's -- it's the entire business. people have noted this. but just to put a finer point on it, all the prop

trump could face legal liability if he did not return government materials he had taken with him when he left office. the lawyer, eric herschmann, sought to impress upon mr. trump the seriousness of the issue and the potential for investigations and legal exposure if he did not return the documents, particularly any classified material. and generally, not long after the discussion with mr. bush and. mr. trump turned over, to the national archives, 15 boxes of material. he had taken with him from the white house. those boxes turned out to contain 184 classified documents the justice department has said until now. we know the name of one witness, possibly the most important witness. federal prosecutors will call to testify in their grand jury investigation of donald trump's possession of those documents. eric herschmann. eric herschmann will obviously comply with a grand jury subpoenaed to testify in that case. and tell the grand jury, whatever he told donald trump about those documents. here is eric herschmann. fulfilling his duty as a witness for the january six committee. >> the day after he had remember what he cal

. >> children, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, and eric trump, a former trump organization cfl alan weiss and burke and trump organization controller jeffrey mcconnell. mr. trump in the trump organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets, to induce banks to lend money to the trump organization on more favorable terms than what otherwise have been available to the company. speak up now, i'm on among the remedies that are being sought by the attorney general, she went on to say that donald trump as well as the history children should be barred from serving as officers directors in any a company in new york state, and that mr. trump should also be barred from taking part in any real estate transactions for the next five years. >> notably she went on to say, that she believed that some of the findings were violation of federal law, and was discovered that her investigators is not going to be sent to the u.s. attorney for the seven district of new york as well as the irs. now, as a mr. trump, he was subpoenaed to testify as you might recall just last month he invoked

trump? who talked to him? who did he talk to? what was he told? what did he understand? it's always hard to prove. eric herschmann, how many do you have? the more people who spoke with trump about the documents, the fact they didn't belong to, him they weren't is, right? he could get in trouble for holding on to them, particularly if they're classified. the more folks you have like, that the more witnesses, the easier it becomes to prove intent. does that matter to the doj if they were to charge a case, and we're going to go to trial, and wanted to convict someone? you bet it does, because that's how you prove intent, and intent is always an element to the government has to prove in these types of cases, stephanie. i >> want to talk january 6th before we go, claire. liz cheney revealed something interesting at an event tonight. watch this. >> in the cloakroom, on january 6th, before the attack happened, there were so many who wanted to show they were objecting that they'd set up these sign up sheets in the cloakroom, and as i was sitting there, a member came in and he signed his name on each one of the

she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump appear donald trump jr. knowingly participated in the fraudulent schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that's billion with a b, in allegedly ill-gotten funds as well as seeking to bar the trumps from ever running a business in the state again. the former president denies any wrongdoing and accuses the attorney general, a democrat, of a political vendetta. there is a lot to the to in the coming hours here on c ncnn, so want to get right to jessica schneider and laura coates. good evening to both of you. jessica, further reporting, the appeals court allowing the justice department to resume their review of the classified documents, what can you tell us? >> don, this was a unanimous three-judge panel notably with two trump appointees. they gave doj what the prosecutors there have been asking for repeatedly over the past week plus. now doj will be allowed to resume using those 100 classified documents tha

eric trump says the investigation is corrupt and a special master is necessary, listen. >> they tookcial master to come in and a judge to appoint a special master to tell them the same thing our attorney would have told them at the time had they not kicked her out of the room and not let her be present. this is corrupt as hell, it is sad. we shouldn't be here, the fbi knows they cannot take attorney-client information. they want to find anything they could on donald trump because we are 60 days away from midterm election. >> carley: failed presidential candidate hillary clinton addressing the raid saying it does not compare to her e-mail investigation. >> i think it is a different comparison here, it appears the justice democrat and fbi have been incredibly patient, quiet, careful until they finally apparently thought national security was at stake. >> carley: clinton writing as trump's problems continue to mounts, the right is trying to make this about me again. i had zer e-mails that were classified. 110 e-mails contained classified information. hillary addressing this question on

trump, along with donald jr, ivanka and is accusing donald trump, along with donaldjr, ivanka and eric trump professional and a preferential rates and reduce taxes. if you claim to have money you do not have money you do not have, that is not the art of the steel. for instance, mr trump is accused of claiming his manhattan apartment was valued at billions of dollars more than it was wet because he said it was almost three times larger than it actually is. now he denies having done anything wrong and it's already been on social media accusing the attorney general of a politically motivated witch hunt and he has already sent out fundraising e—mails, saying he needs support in order to fight back. what was filed today was a civil suit, so that means that there can't be any jail sentences coming as a result of this but the attorney general also said she think she has uncovered evidence that would suggest that both state and federal criminal laws have been violated and that she has passed that information onto prosecutors. passed that information onto prosecutors-_ passed that information onto ro

the new york attorney general is accusing donald trump, along with donald junior, ivanka and eric trumpof dollars in order to persuade banks to lend the money at preferential rates and reduced taxes. claiming you have money you do not have its not the art of the deal she said, it is the art of the deal she said, it is the art of the steel. for instance, donald trump is accused of claiming that his manhattan apartment was worth more than it actually was by billions of dollars, by claiming it was actually three times the size it really is. donald trump has responded already on social media accusing the new york attorney general of a racist witchhunt and say she has her own political agenda. he was interviewed by investigators in this case a few weeks ago and that he refused to answer questions, invoking his right not to answer more than 400 times. this is a civil suit, so there cannot be anyjail sentences, but the attorney general says she believes she has got evidence that both state and federal laws have also been violated. sarah smith, many thanks. the father of molly russell, the 14—y

she's the one who negotiated the trump hotel in washington. don junior and erictrump was in office. what the hell is bill barr talking about? >> well, barr is really trying to get at laetitia james, who ran for office saying, eventually, i mean to get donald trump. that's really an imprudent thing to do. and you can bet that as we move toward a trial, the trump side will scream that this is unfair, but i don't think it will get them, in particular, anywhere. but donald has, in the past, suggested that his son, don jr., who is in his 40s, he is just a boy, basically. nonsense. we're not even talking about someone who is what i call to my children, probationary adult from 18 to 30. they are way past that. they are so deeply involved in the matters that are going on here. if you or i were to lie to banks the way that donald trump did, and the government became aware of, it we would be in deep trouble. >> hold on a second, though. let's say he did lie to the banks. he is saying it's the bank's fault. it's rare that i say, does don trump have a point? but just stay wi

letitia james, new york to tierney general, sued trump, his adult children ivanka, eric, and she's accusing him of lying to banks in the state, fraudulently over valuing his assets by billions and billions of dollars while trying to minimize his company's tax bills. >> the fraud deception used by trump and the trump organization for their own financial betterment is astounding. claiming you have money you don't have. it doesn't amount to the art of the deal. it's the art of the steal. and there cannot be deferrals for different people in this country or in this state. and former presidents are no different. >> and james offered several examples of what she called staggering fraud, including this allegation about the former presidents home in trump tower. >> mr. trump represented that his apartment spanned more than 30,000 square feet, which was the basis for evaluating the apartment. in reality, the apartment had an area of less than 11,000 square feet. this was something mr. trump was well aware of. based on that inflated square footage, the value of the apartment in 2015 and 2016 was 300

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trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric trump from serving as an officer or director in any corporationmilar entity registered and/or licensed in new york. >> new york's attorney general filed this lawsuit after a three-year long investigation. >> we are referring the violations to the united states attorney for the southern district of new york and the internal revenue service. >> james pointed to trump's fifth avenue apartment as an example of the fraud. trump allegedly claimed it was 37,000 square feet when it was 11,000 and he valued it at 327 million. >> to this date no apartment in new york city has ever sold for close to that amount. >> reporter: james says the motive was to entice banks to loan them more money and allow them to pay less in taxes. >> obviously there's tax fraud going on here given the massive inflation of these values. >> reporter: trump has rebuffed james's investigation over the last three years. >> my company is bigger, stronger, far greater asset. >> reporter: and he lashed out on his truth social page saying she is a fraud who campaigned. >> white collar fra

and if hunter was eric trump or don't jr.a, god knows there would be a nondisaster investigation, they would be can you have cuffs. it's absurd. >> sean: well said. greg, where is the raid on hunter biden's home? we know there's evidence of crime on the lab top from hell. and we also know that that laptop ism indicates the president. he had a lot of knowledge of these foreign business dealings and the conflict of interest. why no interest at all on this? >> because there is no equal justice under the law in merrick garland's department of justice. you know, look, you don't forget that joe biden took his son hunter biden on air force 2 to china and promptly introduced him to the high chinese communist party officials and other business officials and then hunter biden made millions based on those contacts. he was running an influence peddling scheme not just with china in making millions, but ukraine, russia, other countries over which joe biden had influence and power. why has there been no raid, no indictment based on influen

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric trump from serving as an officer in any corporation, similar entity registered or lie as soon ased in new york. >> new york's attorney general filed the 200 plus page lawsuit after a three year long investigation. james flagging possible federal crimes. >> we are referring those federal violations that we've uncovered to the united states attorney to the southern district of new york and the internal revenue service. >> james pointed to trump's fifth avenue apartment as an example of the fraud. trump allegedly claimed it was 30,000 square feet when it was actually 11,000 and he valued it at 327 million. >> to this date no apartment in new york city has ever sold for close to that amount. >> reporter: james says the motive was to entice banks to loan them more money and to allow trump and his companies to pay less in taxes. >> obviously there's tax fraud going on given the massive inflation of these values. >> reporter: trump has rebuffed james's investigation. >> my company is bigger, stronger, far greater asset. >> reporter: and he lashed out

quoting here, again, with the help of donald, jr., eric, ivanka, other defendants trump variously again, referring to the former president, she says, unlawfully deflated inflated his net worth by billions of dollarsobtain, satisfy loans, get insurance benefits, pay lower taxes. there are not two sets of laws for people in this nation she goes on to say. former presidents must be held to the same standards as everyday americans. this is a very developing story. it gets sort of in the weeds but the reason why obviously it's a very big business story here at fox business is this refers to donald trump's overall real estate business known as the trump organization that obviously has tentacles into many, many, other areas. they have been looking at the books, what he is claimed as write-offs of valuations of property. this isn't anything new. this sort of conflate ad lot of these to say that he has routinely spiked the books and the numbers. no doubt donald trump, former president will be saying something about this. he was always calling this particular case, the letitia james had led anoth

terms of using the civil process to try to essential low handcuff donald trump, donald trump jr., eric trump and ivanka trump and allen weisselberg and the other financial officer, to handcuff them and have other roles. >> the business can go to another place. but for folks like weisselberg, this has been his living. it stops him from doing that in the future. and the advantage of the civil process, lower standard of proof. >> appreciate the conversation here. >>> next, the other big story of the day, the president of the united states with direct response to russian president vladimir putin. this after moscow says it will send more troops to ukraine's front lines. do the fragging seed. press...press. hit me! i got my alt. that's 472hp and 395 pound feet of f torque. what's up with this team sheet? inverted fullback and a false 9? the limited slip diff lets you hammer the throttle. you don't get it, till you go all in. bloggers! stick it in the onion bag. the lexus is, all in on the sport sedan. ever wonder what everyone's doing on their phones? they're investing with merrill. think miss all

that she's filing a lawsuit against former president trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump and the trump organization for what she describes as a deliberate pattern of bank, tax and insurance fraud going back years identifying more than 200 alleged violations that include trump allegedly falsely doubling, tripling or even more the values of his properties to gain financial advantage. >> fraud and deception used by trump for their own financial benefit ises a toupding. the values of asset bis whatever means necessary to increase trump's reported net worth. >> the lawsuit seeks roughly a quarter billion dollars in penalties and seeks to bar trump and his children from serving as executives at any company in new york. and while this is a civil case, criminal charges could be next. the attorney general said her office is making criminal referrals to both the irs and the u.s. attorney in the sosh district for possible federal crimes. >> every day people cannot lie to a bank about how much money they have in order to get a favorable loan to buy a home or send their kid to college

eric trump says lotito james is not working for the attorney general's office but the dnc referring to the democrat national committee, and the newest poll tied with republican in new york states, seeing that as policy and we see that with a lot of folks who find it timing of this suspect but let's get a former federal prosecutor. this is about a business and its operations and particularly real estate concern where operations can get a little murky, not necessarily legally but very involved, talking about valuations all over the world and liabilities that are sometimes hard to pin down and could be in the eye of the beholder but what do you think of this? >> the skepticism is understandably very high. miss james ran on a platform, to take down trump and seems to be delivering in time for elections. to some people that is suspicious and understandably so, he filed a detailed lawsuit and as defense attorney i can tell you any government case will be strongest the date is filed, and before anything is conducted in their. more to be learned certainly with this, there significant movement,

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric trump, from serving as an officer or director of any corporation or similar entity, registered or licensed in new york. >> reporter: new york's attorney general filed this 200+ page lawsuit after a three year long investigation. james also flagging what she said are possible crimes to federal investigators. >> we are referring those criminal violations that we have uncovered to the united states attorney for the southern district of new york, and the internal revenue service. >> reporter: james pointed to trump's fifth avenue apartment as an example of the fraud. trump allegedly claimed it was 30,000 square feet, when it was actually 11,000, valued at 327 million. >> to this date, no appointment apartment in new york city has ever sold for close to that amount. >> reporter: james said the motive was to entice banks to loan them more money and to allow trump and his companies to pay less in taxes. >> honestly, there is tax fraud going on here, given the massive inflation of these values. >> reporter: trump has rebuffed jameses investigation over the

took of them on them on the carpet, like the ex-president's son, eric trump: >> i can tell you my father is a very, very neat guy. he doesn't leave documents staged all over an office floor >> stephen: "mu dad-- ( cheers and applause ) my dad-- no, i mean this. this is important. this is important. quiet, y'all, listen up! my dad doesn't leave documents all over the floor. his crime is 'organized!' what? what did i say? ( applause ) nobody-- ( applause ) nobody ever tells me what i say, because no one is listening." ( laughter ) in other criminal investigations involving the former president, we've got some news out of georgia, where back in early 2021, voting systems were breached. now we know that happened on the same day a bunch of election-denying maga goons were shepherded into the building by former coffee county g.o.p. chairwoman and lady who handed her stylist a picture of a q-tip, cathy latham. ( laughter ) latham is already under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector back in 2020. and in newly revealed video, she can be seen escorting the former president's team i

. >> so you listened to eric trump there. if we could put up on the screen the photograph the fbi provided in a dispute to over a special master. the washington post reporting that one of the documents involves a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities, this is not a farce and fishing expedition. donald trump has every right to complain if a personal document was taken. >> it's not a if i recollect expedition. donald trump is in this position because he did not return the documents when the archives asked and when he was subpoenaed to return the documents. bill barr was on fox earlier today pointing out you can take all these documents. it's not illegal. they were not stolen. it's part of gathering evidence and the things that were donald trump's personal property are going to be returned to him. that's all been sifted through by the fbi now. we know there's a special master who is also going to sift through this. what we are hear as good language that's designed to get the base riled up, to turn this into a political investiga