sometimes the feeling of handcuffs can cause people to change. certainly when people find out their children have exposure to prosecution, that can become a bargaining chip. or it might be u.s. just the case of michael cohen, the mounting legal bills and paying back taxes could cause him to flip. what we don't know is how far it goes after weisselberg and the corporation. >> peter, an uninvited co-conspirator. we are left with that mystery. the bottom line, trump himself has not been charged. can you give us an idea what it might mean however for donald trump himself? >> well, we should start remembering how just how unique this event really is. this is not just a company that the president was involved with. this is his career, his family organization. there's no shareholders, no board. this is the trump family. while he himself is not indicted, the trump organization is very, very tightly associated with the former president himself. it's not a distant relationship. it's unique a former president of the united states indicted through his compan

. >> all of my fantasies -- fantasies involve handcuffs. >> are you the one putting on the handcuffs?g on the handcuffs. >> greg: not this time.

as michael cohen says sometimes the feeling of the handcuffs can cost to the change. certainly, when people feel their family -- as was the case with michael cohen, just a mounting pressure of legal bills and paying back taxes can cause weisselberg to ultimately flip. we don't know how far this goes after weisselberg incorporation. >> peter baker, how show -- a lot of folks chose to talk about a coconspirator, but we're all left with that mystery. bottom line, donald trump himself has not been charged. can you give us some idea of what this might mean for donald trump himself? >> we should start by remembering just tell unique this event is. it's not just one company the president was involved with. it's his entire career. family, there's no border. this is the trump family. he himself is not indicted, the trump organization a's very tightly associated with the former president himself. that's a nine usual situation in american history how the former president of the united states indicted through his company, and called a criminal organization. we did not lose sight

cfo get perp walked into handcuffs is only the beginning, what could be in store next for donald trump? >>> and republican leaders are crossing over from denying the insurrection took place to actively participating in an effort to cover it up. >>> state-level republicans across the country are already lining up their voter suppression packages when the supreme court decided to holded door open for them. what the new landscape looks like for democracy, for your ability to cast a ballot and for democrats trying to push through voting rights reforms. "velshi" starts now. >>> good morning. it's saturday, july 3rd. there's a big plate of news as we start the holiday weekend including positive new jobs numbers, but with some big caveats the united states is saying good-bye to afghanistan's bagram air base after two decades. >>> and a live report from surfside, florida which is bracing for the first hurricane of the season set to make landfall in the next couple of days in florida. later today, about 225 miles northwest of surfside, the former president is set to deliver remarks at a rally i

. >> all of my fantasies -- fantasies involve handcuffs. >> are you the one putting on the handcuffs? >> to be clear, i'm always putting on the handcuffs. >> greg: not this time. it's time once again for... >> how irredeemably stupid is this stupid media. it's irredeemably stupid. why are you asking, greg? >> greg: lighten up, voice-over guy. how irredeemably stupid is the media? this theory d mobley stupid. >> you got lucky tonight. we are back with attorney michael avenatti. >> to me you are like the holy spirit. you are all places at all times. >> he is out there saving the country. >> i think you are doing a hell of a job. >> looking at 2020, one of the reasons i'm taking you seriously is because of your presence on cable news. >> a rock star. >> greg: the title of the next chapter is in "you are all stupid idiots." behold. speak with a lawyer who represented porn star stormy daniels and legal battles with former president trump sentence or two and a half yearn prison. a jury convicted avenatti of trying to extort $20 million from nike. he faces two more trials. >> greg: there goe

. >> all of my fantasies -- fantasies involve handcuffs. >> are you the one putting on the handcuffs? >> to be clear, i'm always putting on the handcuffs. >> greg: not this time. it's time once again for... >> how irredeemably stupid is this stupid media. it's irredeemably stupid. why are you asking, greg? >> greg: lighten up, voice-over guy. how irredeemably stupid is the media? this theory d mobley stupid. >> you got lucky tonight. we are back with attorney michael avenatti. >> to me you are like the holy spirit. you are all places at all times. >> he is out there saving the country. >> i think you are doing a hell of a job. >> looking at 2020, one of the reasons i'm taking you seriously is because of your presence on cable news. >> a rock star. >> greg: the title of the next chapter is in "you are all stupid idiots." behold. speak with a lawyer who represented porn star stormy daniels and legal battles with former president trump sentence or two and a half yearn prison. a jury convicted avenatti of trying to extort $20 million from nike. he faces two more trials. >> greg: there goe

i didn't expect him to see him in handcuffs.ring a mask and he was accompanied by what you could see that looked like guards of the court at some time. is that unusual? >> no, that's how it works. we have been talking about how seeing your name on an indictment makes it real, makes it tangible and vision ral. we are seeing this clip with weisselberg, about to turn 74 years old, the man never arrested in his life, handcuffed, liberty restrained, led through court by marshals, by security. take about making it real. there are few things more tangible than steel handcuffs on your wrists. we talked about how he's not going to flip, okay, maybe. but when you actually get arrested, handcuffed and marched in front of a judge, it can change things for people. >> i guess, one more beat on this, even for white collar crimes, tax crimes, you are handcuffed and marched into court? >> it is real. people go to jail for this stuff, alisyn. that's why it is important to see how much fraud we're talking about because it will tell us how much jai

cfo allen weisselberg arriving in court in handcuffs. prosecutors unsealing the 15-count indictment, accused him of running a 15-year tax fraud scheme, providing off the books compensation for top executives including apartments, tuition and cars. some of the checks allegedly signed by donald j. trump. the former president responding. jonathan karl standing by. >>> also tonight, the search and rescue effort resumes in surfside, florida. rescuers temporarily pulled off the pile when the remaining part of the south tower began shifting. president biden and the first lady traveling there today, thanking first responders, meeting families of the victims and moments ago, stopping to see the growing memorial. >>> alarming news about the covid delta variant. the cdc calling the variant hypertransmissible. the white house preparing to send surge response teams to virus hot spots. >>> tracking severe storms as we come on the air. the heat wave in the west now blamed for more than 70 heat-related deaths. and tropical storm elsa gaining strength an

it was going to be a pair of handcuffs that could change his behavior.state prosecutors when he was a free man. but now he's got the feeling that have cold, unyielding pair of handcuffs around his wrist. and he better make that decision soon, because in prosecutor terms, the first in is the first to win. the best deal goes to the person who flips first. to me the issue is whether weisselberg flips before or after trump throws him overboard like trump did to michael cohen. so the big question is, when, i think, not if, weaisselberg flips. >> weisselberg is said to be essentially loyal to trump. prosecutors are hoping for a plea deal. what happens next for prosecutors if weisselberg doesn't intend to strike a plea deal? >> i think the prosecutors will look at weisselberg's family and they'll continue to squeeze weisselberg in other ways, because they already apparently gave a deal to jeff mcconney, the comptroller who works directly for weisselberg. mcconney appeared before the grand jury. that's why you saw a level of detail in the indictment that a lot o

and she had a answer about the handcuffs, to. >> did you ever handcuff him to the bed?. anything >> and tammy had her own explanation for that so-called kidnapping kit. sidney needed the concrete for work. the cleaning fluid was for their dirty camper. the shotgun shell? probably gsa spent casing from a turkey hunt. >> did you kidnap heather elvis? >> no, i did not. >> do you know who kidnapped her? >> i do not. >> are you glad that you are able to tell people what happened and what you did do and didn't do? >> i want people to know the truth. and i do want heather found. >> tammy has said that she wants to find heather. she actually liked heather. she didn't do this. and yet, she goes on facebook calling her a cycle -- which is it? >> you know, i can't really explain everything that tammy said or felt. i think it was a huge mistake to call her names and do that sort of thing. >> he said of tammy had kidnapped heather, why would she be writing nasty facebook post about her? elvis listen to tammy's testimony with discuss. >> she deserves to be found. >> it was so offensi

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again, up until the moment that the handcuffs were snapped on him, this morning. because they have the men on the inside, because this was so successful, because for the last months of the trump campaign, they had this guy working for them on the inside, getting them everything they wanted, showing them draft speeches, running language by the, doing interview where they would say everything that they wanted them to say. because it was working for them, because they had according to prosecutors, a secret foreign agent working for them inside this presidential campaign, was that a sweet enough situation for them? that it made them want to try to ensure that trump actually got elected as president. that he wasn't just a candidate and they weren't just exerting influence in the campaign, did it make them want to go the extra step to try to get him elected? , if you have someone secretly working on your payroll secretly working for your country, right at the top of the presidential campaign in another country, that is great in itself, but think about how much greater w

and is it normal in a case like this for a 74-year-old to be brought into the courtroom in handcuffs?it is normal, wolf. and it is certainly the exact sort of thing that could, could, we don't know if it will, but could cause someone like weisselberg to rethink whether he wants to cooperate with the government. i will tell you from my 20 plus experience with the fbi, i arrested many people and went through this process. many of them for the first time in their lives. and it is a very, very tough day to go through. this is an incredibly hard day on mr. weisselberg and his family. i have seen a lot of people start that day convinced that they will not cooperate with the government and then in the days and weeks that follows, they have had a chance to really think about what's set in on them and they change their minds. will that happen here? we don't know yet at this point, but it's certainly possible. >> so, jeffrey, what's next? what's next in all of this? >> well, there will certainly be a lot of legal motions, a lot of legal proceedings in the -- in this case. a judge will be assign

>> watching him in handcuffs today and seeing him walk in handcuffs, i don't think he can watch his kids don't think he can. that was painful. i think it brought a real awareness and stark reality to it. >> what do you think? >> about whether he's going to give up trump? it's interesting that -- he's so loyal. if the man did something to break the law, which i believe -- i'm not the judge and juror. but why would you be loyal about that? loyalty shouldn't have to do with covering up bad acts. >> that's exactly what it has -- when you're in a criminal organization, if that's what's happening, that's exactly what loyalty is. >> that's the very point. you're not talking about a regular employee. you're talking about another criminal. and so in my mind, allen -- even though i'm sure he was involved and he knows all of these things, i look back to when he was just a regular person. friendly, have lunch, whatever, he wasn't a manafort or a michael cohen. he wasn't an animal back then. maybe he's evolved into that situation and maybe he's like got the loyalty thing kind of like a godfather thin

who else at the trump organization might end up walking into a new york state courtroom in handcuffs?rict attorney rebecca, good to see you. you know, michael cohen pointed out this week something that has been pointed out over the years and that one's reality, no matter how important they are or wolters, one's reality changes when there are charges of this level, of this magnitude filed against you and when the handcuffs go on. it makes you rethink your priorities. >> yeah. that's 100% true. and he is speaking, obviously, from personal experience. but as a prosecutor, you really realize that this is true. i think it's most helpful to have somebody's cooperation at the beginning of an investigation, but sometimes prosecutors can't get that and they need to wait to a later phase when the reality really sets in for somebody to agree to cooperate. the key question here, as you say, everybody is speculating, why did they come down with this indictment of the organization if they are waiting to bring charges against somebody else? and to me what's really clear about this particular indictm

we may run out of handcuffs. >> at this rate, gosh. >>> moving on, a growing number of san franciscorestaurants are asking for proof of vaccination and some are now dealing with one star yelp reviews because of this. olympic bar on haight street and the studio cafe have received negative reviews mentioning the policy. the reviews have come from people not even based in the bay area. yelp put a warning on the listing, saying it support team is monitoring content related to media reports. this is very sad, because should not be taking this out on these businesses. they are coming together in doing this, but it goes back to your point, dan. these bars and restaurants have to keep their own employees safe and if this is what is recommended by scientists and makes them and their patients feel comfortable, they have every right to do this. >> yeah, it is a private business. i talked to someone yesterday who is outraged that they were denied entry to hear music and go into a bar, because they could not prove they were vaccinated and they won't get vaccinated and they were quite upset about

the handcuffs don't really feel great on your wrists.at are going to be brought against you. i've often said that, you know, there's a big difference between when you're under investigation and then you're formally indicted as what i went through and what allen weisselberg is going through because the stakes are now real. before they're not real. you sit there, you walk around, you go out with your family and you wonder what they're going to come up with. now you know what they're coming up with and you know that this is just the tip of the iceberg. nobody -- nobody should realistically believe for a second that the indictment that came down today is the end after be all. it is not. the district attorney, cyrus vance and others have substantially more documents and more indictments will be coming as a result. >> i want to get into that more in a second. i wanted to get your reaction to this political reporting. what do you make of that? >> of course he is, right? because donald trump doesn't care. donald trump doesn't care about anyone o

and when those handcuffs go on. a mix you rethink your priorities. >> yeah, i mean that's 100 percent true. he's speaking obviously from personal experience. as a prosecutor, you realize that this is true. i think it's most helpful to have some of somebody's cooperation at the very beginning of an investigation. but sometimes, prosecutors can't get that and they need to wait to a later phase when the reality really sets in for somebody to agreed to cooperate. the key question here, as you say, everybody is speculating why did they come down with this indictment of the organization, if they're waiting to bring charges against somebody else? and to me, what is really clear about this particular indictment, there are two things. one is, this is a really strong indictment. each has 15 years of off the books, compensation scheme. the question is, who was this designed to benefit? it's not convincing, once you read the indictment, it's really clear that it wasn't allen weisselberg. the prosecutors do not think this was a

he had handcuffs on his wrist on thursday. he walked the gauntlet at the criminal courts building in lower manhattan. he can either plead guilty, cooperate, or go to trial. and that's very risky. these are very serious charges, $1.7 million he was charging cars, several apartments here in manhattan. even the tuition for his grandchildren at a private school. the indictment alleges that there were two ledgers upstairs. he was even charging small things like electricity, cable and internet service, personal charges, charged to the business. now, for their part the trump family is standing by him. trump is said to be enraged about all this. he says these are ridiculous charges, that weisselberg is an honorable man and that he will stand by him. sons eric and don jr. are outraged as well and they're saying these charges are trumped up, they're political in nature. now, what happens to the business? that's a big question because the business is a brand. the trump brand. the banks could call in their loans, forbes is reporting some

so he was among those arrested today, put in handcuffs, hauled away by police. hank johnson is the second sitting member of congress to be arrested in the past week for participating in direct action, in nonviolent civil disobedience around voting rights. last week you'll remember our coverage it was ohio congresswoman joyce batie arrested in the lobby of that same senate office building. today's protest was organized by the group black voters matter. you notice it was black women leading the protest last week, black men today. it's the latest of what has been a string of nonviolent civil disobedience to try to push congress, to try to change the game, to try to make something new possible to protect voting rights. civil rights leaders tell us this is just the start of what they've planned for the rest of the summer, to do what they can to stop the stripping of voting rights in this country in state after state after state. one of the members of grs who was at today's protest is going to join us live next. stay with us. protest is going to join usiv le next stay

allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer for the trump organization led into court in handcuffs. to the judge prosecutors described a 15-year tax scheme charging weisselberg, trump payroll corporation, and the trump organization. 15 counts against the cfo and 10 against the former president's namesake company. prosecutors allege weisselberg evaded taxes on $1.7 million in compensation. all three defendants pleaded not guilty. weisselberg's attorney announcing in a statement he will fight the charges. his indictment and charges against the trump organization come after more than 2-year probe by the manhattan d.a. cy vance. an investigation that ultimately led to uba taining trump's tax records in a court battle. free apartments, cars and even school tuition, benefits that would amount to tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and were allegedly not properly reported for tax purposes. allen, how are you feeling? the trump organization fired back today claiming prosecutors are using weisselberg, quote, as a pawn in a scorched earth attempt to harm the president.

the chief financial officer for the trump organization led into court, in handcuffs. to the judge, prosecutors described a 15-year tax scheme. charging weisselberg, trump payroll corporation, and the trump organization. 15 counts against the cfo, and ten against the former president's namesake company. prosecutors allege weisselberg evaded taxes on $1.7 million in compensation. all three defendants pleaded not guilty. weisselberg's attorney announcing, in a statement, he will fight the charges. his indictment and charges against the trump organization come, after a more-than-two-year probe by the manhattan da, cy vance. an investigation which, ultimately, led to obtaining trump's tax records in a supreme-court battle. investigators have been focusing on perks awarded to employees, like free apartments, cars, and even school tuition. bef benefits that would amount to tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and were allegedly not properly reported for tax purposes. >> allen, how are you feeling? >> reporter: the trump organization fired back today. cla

you see him here in handcuffs walking into court. both the trump organization and weisselberg pleading not guilty today. but the charges are serious, and carry significant consequences. weisselberg is 73 years old and could face a significant amount of time in prison if he's convicted. weisselberg knows the inner workings of the trump organization. he's been by trump's side since 1973. even appearing with him on "the apprentice." the former president praised wiseleberg in his book, writing, he did whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line. that may be what's gotten him into so much legal trouble, he would do anything for trump and he knows poppy much everything about him. just listen to weisselberg's former daughter-in-law. >> it's been his life. he's always been saved by donald. >> he knows everything about donald. next to a family member, and perhaps even more than a family member, he knows everything about donald. >> everything went through donald. you name it. allen weisselberg's payments, rent, everything, would have don

it involved real handcuffs and cold cells and all the torture elements.he fact that everything was filmed in such a short and intense timeframe, i think it took 25 days. we filmed from monday to saturday. sometime sundays. 12 hour days with no lunch break. the experience was very intense. yes, it was my toughest film as an actor. >> you used to refused to take on roles of presumed terrorists so as to not be typecast. why did you dive into this particular story? >> i did say that i did not to play a terrorist, and, of course, he is not one. it's all because of the way the film industry articulate hollywood portrays them. it really helps mentalities evolve, whereas i want to make people reflect on how to bring about greater story balance. that is why would not play them and also to avoid being labeled. but in this case, he's not a terrorist. i researched him and really asked myself questions. when i read up on him, i thought there might be a mistake but there isn't. i did my homework, i studied his story, i questioned everything. nancy herself said said tha

he was led in handcuffs.handcuffed him before proceedings began before the judge. he pleaded not guilty. the trump organization also pleaded in the guilty to all the charnls against them. on top of that, weisselberg has to surrender the passport. he has to petition the court in order to be able to do so. he was released on what is called ror, basically personal recognizance, personal guarantee the next time he needs to be in court he'll show up again. the next time we're in court, september 20th. it's going to be a 9:30 a.m. that will be a status hearing. at that time they set up a motion schedule. we don't have a trial date at this point. >> the greatest city and greatest democracy in the world should not have occurred. it is a sad day in new york this occurred. thank you, i'm no the answering any questions. >> you had a chance to look over. it is multiple pages. what has stood out to you so far from what you've been able to gather? >> yeah. they have thrown the kitchen sink at the trump organization. the d.

hallie jackson leads us off tonight >> reporter: the trump organization's long-time cfo appearing in handcuffs, indicted tonight along with the company that bears the former president's name accused of what prosecutors called a sweeping and audacious tax fraud scheme they allege the trump organization over the last 15 years paid top execs off the books, giving out fringe benefits like cars, apartments, and tuition amounting to for allen weisselberg an extra $1.7 million in compensation, which should have been taxed. instead, prosecutors say weisselberg evaded some $900,00 local taxes, and got more than $100,000 in refunds he was never owed the defendants facing 15 counts, including second-degree grand larceny pleading not guilty >> i believe the political forces driving today's events are just that. it's politically driven >> reporter: in a statement, donald trump himself, who was not charged calling the investigation a continuation of a political witch hunt by the radical left democrats with new york now taking over the assignment prosecutors prebutting that argument in court with one telling

the 72-year-old was brought into the court in new york in handcuffs and is facing a charge of a scheme to defraud in the first degree and grand larceny in the second degree. let's get the analysis. always a pleasure to have you on the program. thanks for joining us. how big a case is this shaping up to be? >> my pleasure to be here. it is hard to say how big a case it will be just based on what we are seeing now. i think the safest thing to say is that the prosecutors want it to be a bigger case, the prosecutorial authority, and that this is likely a first step in that direction. there's two possibilities, one that it could be sort of a placeholder indictment, that these are the charges that they have now, they have solid evidence now for these particular charges against these particular defendants. that is to say, the chief financial officer and the trump organization is a corporate entity itself. that would be fairly serious, but, obviously, it does not name donald trump specifically as a defendant, and that seems to be from previous statements what the goal was. this is a step to ge

the 83-year-old was being led away in handcuffs.s found guilty of drugging and molesting a former basketball player at a thousand four. pennsylvania's hiest court has ruled in agreement with a previous prosecutor that prevented bill cosby from being charged. the judges added the testimony from accusers unrelated to this particular allegation had tainted the trial. cosby had been charged in 2015 over those allegations of sexual assault which dated back to 2004. he has always denied the allegations i never shown remorse. ken belkin is a criminal defense attorney in new yo. >> whatever happened between mr. cosby i cannot say. but i do not think it was fair for him to be retried and to admit five witnesses who really were not there. when you put a witness on the stand, it has to be a witness that is relevant, that has information that bears on whether allegations are true. steve -these five people were not witness. they were witnesses to other instances being a legend, but those other instances where the subject of the trial. >> let's b

the powerful moneyman of donald trump's business empire today led him to court in handcuffs surroundedlice, a heavy-handed and deliberate show of force by the new york authorities. the charge by the district attorney cy vance, hoping to flip mr. weisel berg. but the trump cfo is having none of it. the statement from the trump organization spat defiance over the treatment of allen weisselberg. he's now being used by the manhattan district attorney as a pawn in a scorched-earth attempt to harm the former president. this is injustice, this is politics. after a short hearing, he left court chard with fraud, charged with giving perks to trump executives and family members that were never declared. on the face of it, these charges might seem, after a three year investigation, relatively minor. keeping payments off the books. but the district attorney is making clear to allen weisselberg that this is the start of a process, not the end of it. trump lawyers after the hearing were trying to sound upbeat. >> the company is very very optimistic, and we are certainly hopeful there will not be a si

. >> seeing him walk in handcuffs, i don't think he can watch his kids do that.ust don't think he can. that was painful. >> reporter: trump calls the charges a disgrace insisting the investigation is politically motivated. and a lawyer for trump says after years of investigation and the collection of millions of documents and devoting the resources of dozens of prosecutors and outside consultants, this is all they have? weisselberg has pleaded not guilty. he could face up to 15 years in prison for the most serious charge of grand larceny. >>> the white house is sending response teams to parts of the country where covid-19 cases are surging. missouri is one of the hot spots. daily cases there are up 121% in recent weeks. the delta variant of the virus is spreading rapidly. doctors are seeing more young unvaccinated patients in the hospital. >> we thought we were out of is, but now we're ck vi tget staffing to ease. gathus havineven monica uptk t th plning for that. also filling up with covid patients again. the governor is urging everyone to get vaccinated saying,

parked the car in the middle of the street, they called the police, they arrested me, they put the handcuffs in my feet and in my hand, i told them, but what crime have i done? what's my case? i just took a photo. i me and on a banana republic, we have a court system. we have a court system who is definitely not in the pocket of the right wing or the religious of this country. no one can get away with just driving someone out of anywhere in this country. i mean, we know the british were here. we know exactly who was kicked out in what ease and 948. the jews also kicked out of the area, taken his prisoners of all that's real, being kicked out and evicted by the arab world. no arab is being pushed out or kicked out of any with actually being driven as no such thing. ah, in ah, has the moon with seen these countries things 17 countries with familiar with was that have tried to driven us out. when thought he was imperialist, we have returned home as the indigenous people to our own homeland. and is basically nothing to the world. the air will can do bad and whatever attempts have tried when succ

. >> reporter: the trump organization's longtime cfo appearing in handcuffs, indicted along with the company that bears the former president's name, accused of what prosecutors called a sweeping and audacious tax fraud scheme they allege the trump organization over the last 15 years paid top execs off the books, giving out fringe benefits like cars, apartments, and tuition, amounting to for allen weisselberg an extra $1.7 million in compensation, which should've been taxed instead, prosecutors say weisselberg evaded some $900,000 in federal, state, and local taxes and got more than $100,000 in refunds he was never owed the defendants facing 15 counts ineading not guilty. >> i believe the political forces are just that. it's politically driven. >> reporter: in a statement donald trump himself, who was not charged, calling the investigation a continuation of a political witch hunt by the radical left democrats with new york now taking over the assignment prosecutors prebutting that argument in court, telling the judge it's not about politics. this investigation, which is ongoing has be

prioritize instead cooperation's with china on climate change, were looking at video of the uighurs in handcuffscked up in the region of china, yet we have the progressive left pushing biden to rollover for china on this. i know his policy hasn't had much teeth, what is your expectation for u.s. china policy. >> they won't stand up to any of our adversaries, they want weakness from america but look at china's record and of course, you pointed out they've enslaved people, they persecute people based on their political views and the far left progressives in congress want to look the other way towards lot, who are these groups that are saying president biden should turn his back, give everything the keys to the candy store china, the green new deal in the paris accord that is a gift to china because they stop the ability to manufacture in america make it difficult to manufacture things in america which means those jobs go to china and china amidst more carbon to make the same steel and products which if he made an america because they have good standards here they love beating up on america yet whe

cfo allen weisselberg arriving in court in handcuffs.aling the 15-count indictment, accused him of running a 15-year tax fraud scheme, providing off the books compensation for top executives including apartments, tuition and cars. some of the checks allegedly signed by donald j. trump. the former president responding. jonathan karl standing by. >>> also tonight, the search and rescue effort resumes in surfside, florida. rescuers temporarily pulled off the pile when the remaining part of the south tower began shifting. president biden and the first lady traveling there today, thanking first responders, meeting families of the victims and moments ago, stopping to see

with fraud and tax crimes the chief financial officer of donald trump's company led into court in handcuffser a two-year investigation accusing the trump organization of a 15-year scheme to avoid paying taxes the legal trouble it could mean for the former president and how he's reacting tonight. >>> late word the search has resumed in the florida condo collapse after about a 15-hour halt due to safety concerns. president biden traveling to surfside to meet victims' families and just breaking, another collapse over a thousand miles away. >>> the concerning cdc warning of the delta variant. a troubling reversal as covid cases rise 10% in just a week >>> bill cosby leaving the state to reunite with wife camille for the first time since his conviction was overturned new reporting and how he learned he was going free, and could he still face legal trouble? >>> the nfl team slapped with a $10 million fine, the largest in league history for a culture of harassment. >>> princes william and harry reuniting to honor their late mother >>> why a popular social media platform is banning weight loss ads.

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he's shut up, please shut up and then they put the handcuffs on him. those guy opposition lawyer was now living in canada. says he's trying to silence the voice of defending it. they are trying to eliminate all the facts, all the arguments that again a speech or that can be say in no position to the what the government is doing right now. that's why they are trying to maintain lawyers out of the process. meanwhile, hundreds of cuban americans supporting the protesters in cuba, most the july 26 anniversary in front of the white house. but on the streets of cuba, capital demonstrations of any kind or conspicuously absent sea and human. i'll just 0. ah, this is i'll just say that these are the top stories, genovius prime minister says he's willing to hand over responsibility to whoever the president chooses to replace him his machine. she was removed from his post late on sunday, after the violent protests over the economic crisis. and the government's handling of the corona virus pandemic, the dismissal of his machine. she has triggered the country's wor