, and other potential candidates for governor, and with letitia james deciding not to run for governorthy hochul has no serious competition in next year's election to remain governor of new york. joining us now, paul butler, law professor at georgetown university, and a former federal prosecutor. here's an msnbc legal analyst, and david k. johnston, pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and author of "the big cheat how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family," professor butler, let's begin with the legal process that letitia james is running in this civil case. she has the power to subpoena donald trump. he doesn't have any legal grounds for resisting that subpoena. he'll try to drag it out. obviously he'll play some kind of game, but what do you anticipate in the -- what kind of delay game donald trump can play in going under oath for attorney general james? >> so lawrence, both the attorney general and district attorney investigation are focused on what did the trump commit free. the new york ag and the d.a. has a different set of powers. in a crimina

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in the latest denial they accuse new york attorney general letitia james of trying to further her political of new york. james then announced she's ending her bid for governor. these legal entanglements seemingly won't end. >> she's going to seek re-election at attorney general. brian todd, thank you very much. >>> meanwhile, breaking news coming into the situation room. cnn is learning one of donald trump's campaign lawyers wrote multiple memos, multiple memos outlining how she believed that then-vice president mike pence could reject electoral college votes and overturn the 2020 presidential election. let's get more right now. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us. so update our viewers. what are you learning? >> that's right. jenna ellis, a trump attorney, outlined several different memos how she believed that former vice president mike pence could overturn the election. this has previously been reported one of these memos was published in december. also a subsequent memo published in january. but she is denying, wolf, she was in any way advocating or believed t

the former president has filed suit against new york attorney general letitia james, asking for a courtstop her investigation. remember, ag james has called for donald trump himself to sit for a deposition in that investigation next month. her office released a statement in response to the lawsuit saying, quote, to be clear, neither mr. trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions. our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name trump. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst cynthia alksne. so pete, walk us through this lawsuit. >> well, it accuses the new york attorney general of abusing the powers of her office by relentlessly hounding mr. trump. that's the allegation. members of his family and his business, for what it says are purely political reasons. it says she has reduced her office to, quote, nothing more than the right arm of the democratic party. it says she made the goal of taking on donald

this is part letitia james new york attorney general civil investigation. whether they had lied about the value of their properties, condos, officer towers, golf courses. this investigation has been going on for a long time. they did depose eric trump, one of the top executives at the country. the timing of this comes as the criminal investigation, which james' office is also working along with is come to go a head because the manhattan d.a., sigh vance is stepping down. he didn't run for reelection. big questions on what the next steps will be in a criminal investigation. a spokesperson for cy vance's office said in a public statement that the deposition that james' office is seeking is separate and not part of the criminal investigation. these are two parallel investigations. we can expect that the former president will move to fight this deposition. he has moved toll fight many o these depositions. particularly because it comes with the threat of a criminal investigation ongoing. it involves some of the same leaders of the offices there with james being

letitia james thought, i'm not winning.s going to be an uphill climb to win this race with a lot of other democrats in the race. and if i run, it'll taint this thing i want to do against donald trump. it will be harder to do what i need to be doing if people think i'm using it as fodder for a gubernatorial race. >> thanks to all of you for that. >>> right now at the white house as we speak, president biden, so far as we know, he's still on the phone. he's still on the phone with the ukrainian president. russia keeps up that troop buildup along the border. >>> and we're keeping an eye on a couple things happening in congress. house speaker nancy pelosi about to speak any minute along with several committee chairs. then on the right side of your screen, the senate floor with moves now with a really important vote to set up debt limit increase. >>> and we've got an exclusive look at the nation's first ever injection site. officials say 17 people have already been saved by overdoses with quick action by workers there. we'll tal

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nbc confirmed new york's attorney general, letitia james, wants to have the former president sit for nuary 7th about his company's business practices. as "the new york times" puts it, it is an unusual move that comes at a critical juncture for a parallel criminal investigation into the former president. making it more unusual is the fact that her office is assisting a criminal investigation headed by the manhattan disic

news overnight that the former president donald trump is suing the new york attorney general letitia james >> i think it's a public relations stunt. there is no way you can stop an investigation just because you don't like it. this is clearly a legitimate investigation of possible violations of the law. however, the one thing that trump might have in his pocket legally on this issue is that, you know, letitia james, an elected official, state wide here in new york, has been super outspoken about how much she disdains donald trump, how much she thinks he was a terrible president and perhaps criminal. if charges ever came, he might have some basis for dismissing the case or at least making a motion to dismiss the case based on her statements. but certainly that would only happen after charges were brought, not at this stage. i don't think this lawsuit is of any significance at all. >> jeffrey toobin, thank you very much. >> okay, berman, erica. see you. >>> "new day" continues right now. >>> good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, december 21

letitia james is accused of misconduct saying she's abusing her political powers to advance her careertory of suing people. for a look at that, here's 360's randi kaye. >> does anybody else know about litigation and president trump. i have a phd in litigation, okay? >> reporter: president trump has a lot of practice, too. he has sued businesses over 200 times. he's been at it a while, as far back as 1973 when trump and his father were accused by the justice department of violating the fair housing act for not renting to african-americans. >> some of the applications were marked with a c which we learned that it meant colored. >> reporter: trump was just 27. but quickly learned to deploy lawsuits as a weapon. so trump countersued the federal government for $100 million. in the end, trump's suit went nowhere and he settled out of court in the case against him without admitting guilt. there are practically too many lawsuits to count. he also initiated a $100 million lawsuit against palm beach county for allegedly directing air traffic over his mar-a-lago estate. trump even once sued tv ho

new york attorney general letitia james wants to question the former president under oath next monthg-running fraud investigation into the trump family real estate business. the civil investigation is focusing on whether the trump organization routinely lied about the value of its properties, trying to lower its taxes or access loans. trump's attorney said he's still awaiting the subpoena but called the deposition scheduled for january 7th a witch hunt and purely political. the decision comes as the former president loses an appeal to block white house records from being handed over to the january 6th house committee. while his allies and former aides face their own legal challenges for stonewalling that panel. we're going to get to all of that now with msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade. always good to have you here so let's begin with this new york civil investigation into the trump organization. explain to us what information the attorney general wants to get from donald trump, and is there any way trump can get out of testifying? >> well, ordinarily, in

so he turned over the case to the attorney general of new york, letitia james. >> reporter: but insteading him, the investigation became his undoing. >> the independent investigation found that governor cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. >> reporter: in august, laticia james, new york's attorney general, who announced her own bid for governor, released a 165-page report, a searing indictment of cuomo and his behavior while in office. >> specifically, the investigation found that governor andrew cuomo sexual harassed current and former new york state employees by gaining in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature. >> reporter: three weeks later, under pressure, the 63-year-old resigned. >> the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. >> reporter: an astonishing fall from grace for a man who once had designs on the white house. now facing a misdemeanor sex crime charge, due in court to enter a plea. >> in the independent there may be no other consequence for andrew cuomo

cnn suspended him on tuesday after a document dump from letitia james after an investigation into hisid... so a bit more to come on that potentially. bit more to come on that potentially-— bit more to come on that otentiall . �* w ., ., potentially. and reaction from chris himself? _ potentially. and reaction from chris himself? chris _ potentially. and reaction from chris himself? chris also - chris himself? chris also issued a _ chris himself? chris also issued a statement - chris himself? chris also issued a statement on . chris himself? chris also - issued a statement on twitter, he said, "this is not how my time at sea to end." at the time of his brother's resignation, chris said he's not an adviser, he's a brother. he wasn't in control of anything, was there to listen and offer his take. that made some cnn staff feel uncomfortable, but cnn stood by him — but now cnn has said that uncovered a cosy and improper nature between the brothers because of text messages they found of chris and aids of the governor. chris was seeking to use his connexions in the press to help his brother,

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this is part of a civil fraud investigation into trump's family business that attorney general, letitia jameshim to sit for a deposition on january 7th. "the post" is reporting her office is looking into whether widespread fraud, quote, permeated the trump organization and whether it manipulated real estate properties. donald trump has not been personally accused of wrongdoing here. >>> let's turn to new developments with the investigation into the capitol insurrection. mark meadows, donald trump's former chief of staff, is now suing the house select committee. meadows recently stopped cooperating with the committee, on again, off again, cooperating, not, and now suing but not before he turned over a trove of documents. jamie gang l joins me with more. she told congress they'd received a number of extremely interesting nonprivileged documents from meadows. you have insight into what is so interesting about these documents. can you tell us? >> reporter: for context, first, i think it's important to stay again, underscore, the documents that meadows handed over were voluntarily. no claim of pri

and this all stems again from letitia james' report, 168-page report issued in august of 2021.ll, if you will, ramifications of that report. >> richard roth, thank you so much. >>> still ahead -- a wrngarning that iran is playing with fire. an inside look at the high stakes talk to keep the peace. stay with us. >>> in our world lead, the threat from iran is real and growing more dire. that's the conclusion in a new deep dive in "the new yorker" magazine revealing what's at stake in a new round of international talks aimed at halting iran's ambitions. the man a let's discussion it with robin wright. you just published this article. lay it out for our viewers. what's the real threat that iran poses right now? >> iran has achieved enormous advances in its nuclear program. president trump tried to use maximum pressure. iran has instead exaccelerated t just its nuclear program but its missile program. it has the largest missile program in the middle east. at a lot of levels, iran is a threat for today than at the time of the nuclear deal in 2015, which was one of the most important

smear and dig up dirt on the sexual assault accusers of his brother, new york attorney general letitia jamesement about his firing contained no apologies for his own abuses of power using his own position to do this. so who would hire him, joe? >> no apologies for those women, right? what i was about to say, sexual harrassment is the third rail to every tv executive. throw in the factor that andrew cuomo's legal problems are getting worse, the cuomo name you hear it it is becoming too toxic to touch. cuomo brother the only achieved what they did in life because of the cuomo name, because of mario cuomo who conducted himself with dignity, respected by members of both sides of the aisle. in this case three things got the best of the cuomo brothers, ego, hubris and complete lack of a moral compass. spring of 2020, on top of the world keeping up with the cuomos, that comedy routine. one had to resign. one was fired. another anchor chris cuomo will take cnn to court over his firing? it is such a mess. elizabeth: you believe in due process, right? they should have their say, get everything aired.

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reports today say attorney general letitia james wants also today, attorney general james suspended her campaign for governor of new york. the first-term democrat cited ongoing investigations, and said that she would seek re-election as attorney general instead. the u.s. senate has moved closer to raising the debt ceiling and averting a national default. a bipartisan bill, allowing for passage by a simple majority, passed a key procedural vote today. it would let democrats raise the debt limit-- without republican support-- in the evenly-divided senate. former senate majority leader and presidential candidate bob dole lay in state today at the u.s. capitol. his casket arrived in a somber ceremony as lawmakers, friends, and family gathered to pay tribute. president biden praised dole as "a giant of our history," and urged americans to follow his example. >> america has lost one of our greatest patriots. we may follow his wisdom, i hope, and his timeless truth, that the truth of the matter is, as divided as we are, the only way forward for democracy is unity, consensus. the only way. >> w

. >>> new york attorney general letitia james ending her bid for governor and instead announcing a runbeen considered a top democratic challenger to governor kathy hochul. james in a statement citing ongoing investigations into cases and she intends to finish that job. on thursday cnn reported james' office reported president trump for a deposition as part of her civil investigation into his name sake company. >>> turning back now to our top story today, a major blow to the former president's bid to keep his white house records under wraps and out of the hands of the january 6 committee. trump had wanted notes, memos, call logs and a host of other documents about that capitol attack kept secret, claiming they're covered by executive privilege. but a federal appeals court disagreed with him. writing in a 68-page ruling, in part here, court, the committee is investigating a singular event in this nation's history. there is a sufficient factual predicate for inferring that former president trump and his advisers played a materially relevant role. committee members feeling confident they w

new york state attorney general letitia james wants to question former president trump in a civil investigatione focus is on whether the organization illegally manipulated the valuations of its properties. the trump org call be investigation -- called the investigation a political witchhunt. that came as attorney general james suspended her campaign for governor of new york, running for attory general again. a bipartisan bill allowing for passage by a simple majority past a key procedural vote today. it would let democrats raise the debt limit without publican support in the evenly decided -- divided senate. former senators jordi leader and presidential candidate bob dole lay in state the u.s. today. his casket arrived in a summer ceremony as lawmakers, friends and family gathered pay tribute. president biden praised him as quote a giant of our history and urged americans to follow his example. >> america has lost one of our greatest patriots. we may follow his wisdom, i hope, and his timeless truth that the truth of the matter is as divided as we are, you only way forward for democracy is unit

u.s., former president donald trump has filed a lawsuit against new york state attorney general letitia jamesl investigation into his business practices. cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid, paula, this is not an unusual tactic for donald trump. he has o is often sued. what d do we know? >> reporter: the former president and his attorneys have argued this is politically meet v-8ed and they allege she has violated constitutional rights and are seeking to block her investigation. her office has been looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, both to b obtain favorable lons. it mirrors a criminal investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office, which has resulted in charges against the organization and one of its executives. now, the timing of this lawsuit is also interesting because james has signaled she wants to question the former president next month. it does appear to be a traditional trump tactic, airing of grievances, everything that's happened between james and the former president in the last few years in the course of this

new york attorney general letitia james seeks to propose former president donald trump early next yearation into potential fraud at the trump organization. a source familiar with the matter told nbc news. james has requested trump answer questions under oath on january 7th at her new york office as part of a civil tax fraud investigation into whether his company gave fraudulent valuations of properties to different entities. sources told that to "the washington post." the trump organization released a statement calling the move, quote, another political witch hunt, adding the only focus of the new york a.g. is to investigation trump all for her own political ambitions. that's what attorney free shety said. we should note attorney general james announced yesterday she's abandoned her campaign to be governor of new york state and will run another term as a.g. joinings us now, our friend, danny cevallos. thanks so much for being with us. donald trump is a private citizen. does he have any chance of getting out of this deposition? >> not likely. as you said, he's a private sit designation.

according to details released earlier this week by new york state attorney general letitia james, the increase changed text messages with several of the former governor's aides and allies and which chris cuomo reportedly sought to use his connections in the press to help prepare his brother's pr team has accuser started making their stories public chris cuomo released a statement in response to the firings tonight saying in part that he this is not how i want my time at cnn to end. but i've already told you why and how i helped my brother. so let me now say it's disappointing as this is. i could not be more proud of the team at cuomo prime time and the work we did. that's as cnn's number one show in the most competitive time slot. i owe them all and will miss that group of special people who did really important work, end quote. >> communities along the california coast could be at risk of flooding this weekend. forecasters say unusually high tides known as the king tides. we're going to peak tomorrow morning. coastal flood advisories have been issued for low-lying areas of the san fr

♪ >>> at this hour we're learning former president trump is suing new york's attorney general letitia jameswsuit is trying to stop the a.g.'s lawsuit investigating the trump organization. paula reid is joining me with more details on this. what's happening here? >> reporter: in this lawsuit, trump's attorneys argue that this long-running investigation by the new york state attorney general's office violates his constitutional rights. he and his attorney have long argued that james is politically motivated in her investigation. but for nearly two years, her office has been looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets to obtain favorable loan terms, insurance rates, and to pay lower taxes. it closely mirrors an ongoing criminal investigation by the manhattan district attorney's office, this which has resulted in charges against the organization and one of its executives. in this lauts, trump's attorneys are trying to block james from participating in that criminal investigation. now to support their allegation against james, trump's lawyers lay out statements

asking a federal court to block the long-running investigation by new york state attorney general letitia jamesnto the trump organization. now, for roughly two years, her office has been conducting a civil investigation into the trump organization, looking at whether it falsely represented the value of its assets to obtain better loan terms, better insurance rates, and to pay lower taxes. that investigation mirrors an ongoing criminal probe by the manhattan district attorney's office that has already resulted in criminal charges against the trump organization and one of its executives. now, what's interesting about the timing, this lawsuit is that it comes as james is seeking to depose the former president under oath next month. mr. trump and his attorneys have long argued james is politically motivated and allege she has violated trump's constitutional rights and abused her office, they say, to target trump and to further her own political career. now, in a statement, james responded saying, to be clear, neither trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for

the suit was filed after a report that attorney general letitia james would seek to question former presidentoffice probes whether his organization manipulated the valuations of its real estate properties. former president says james' pursuing a politically motivated investigation. james' office said in a statement, quote: our investigation will continue dine terred because no one is above the law. not even someone with the name trump. meantime, breaking tonight, there are growing concerns within the defense department about extremism within the ranks of the military. why now? national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with the story, good evening, jennifer. >> good evening. bret. the pentagon released its new guidelines on extremism in the ranks a year long be review spawned by the january 6th attack on the capitol. new dod guidelines about what amounts to extremist behavior including liking certain posts on social media that call for violence or overthrowing the government. >> will they be monitoring social media 24/7 of their unit members or any recruits. >

new york attorney general letitia james dropping her campaign to be the next governor of new york. of important investigations and cases are under way and she wants to continue her work on them. those include a fraud probe into former president trump's company. on the news, travis scott speaking out in his interview since the astroworld tragedy hear what he says on "the news" at 7:00 p.m. eastern scott, back to you. >> thank you very much, rahel solomon. the investment committee making moves. kari firestone, you first. new position, autodesk why? >> autodesk is up from its peak. it's the leader in software for design and engineering and they're adding new verticals such as construction and moving toward a subscription model across their base and this is a solid growth company, 15% longterm revenue and 20% long term earnings growth and it's just been hit with a number of names. we think this is a time to step up and we've watched it for a long time. it was more expensive than we wanted to pay. so this was an opportunity and that's what we're supposed to do, buy low and that's what w

in a statement, cnn said documents released monday by new york attorney general letitia james revealed chris cuomo had "a greater level of involvement than we previously knew." the cnn repeatedly offered advice and assistance, including using his contacts to check on the status of upcoming articles about then-governor cuomo. in minnesota, jury selection began tuesday in the manslaughter trial of white, former police officer kimberly potter, who in april fatally shot daunte wright, a 20-year-old black man and father in brooklyn center. potter can be heard in body cam video shouting "taser" multiple times before she killed wright. the police officers initially pulled daunte wright over for minor traffic violations, including an air freshener hanging from the car's rearview mirror. in california, a new report estimates at least 1500 unhoused people died on los angeles streets from the start of the pandemic to july 2021. the most common cause of death was accidental overdose. in related news in new york, city officials announced the opening of at least two supervised drug injection sites i

well, this lawsuit is asking a federal court to block letitia james' long running investigation intozation. roughly two years her office has been conducting a civil investigation into the trump organization, looking at whether it lied about the value of its assets to obtain more favorable loan terms, better insurance rates, and to pay lower taxes. now, her investigation mirrors a similar investigation being conducted by the manhattan district attorney's office. that, though, is a criminal investigation and has already resulted in criminal charges against the organization and one of its executives. now, what's interesting about the timing of trump's lawsuit is it comes as james is seeking to depose the former president under oath next month. now, trump and his attorneys have long argued that james is politically motivated, but this this lawsuit they get more specific. they argue that james has violated trump's constitutional rights, and that she has abused her office to further her political career. now, in a statement, james has responded to these allegations saying, quote, to be cle

and i also think letitia james' desire to subpoena him is something he's going to have trouble fighting. there's no leverage, actually, there in new york state, and i wonder, too, with the supreme court, where he's bound to appeal, he may have less leverage than he imagined when he appointed members of the court. they are involved in other controversies. they may want to protect the supreme court from further controversy by just letting the circuit court decision stand, but i have no krystcrystal balle that's concerned. >> so many legal questions, and i know you have no crystal ball, but tell us if you think first that the supreme court will even take the case. >> victor, i don't think they will because this supreme court wants people to buy into them as a nonpolitical body, so why would they want to step into this political mess. they would be stepping on a rake, and besides the lower court took great pains to create an argument that they thought the conservatives on the supreme court would like. the separation of powers argument that, hey, this is an executive decision. don't let the

this is cif ix were released in a massive document dump monday by new york attorney general letitia james. those documents detail. text messages between. chris cuomo and several of the governor's aides and allies in which chris cuomo reportedly sought to use his connections in the press to help prepare his brother's pr team has accuser started making their stories public against him. chris cuomo releasing a statement in response to his firing today saying that he is that his not how we want in his time at cnn. but i already told you why and how i help my brother. >> he also expressed his disappointment while reflecting on his time as a prime time host at the network. a group of abuse survivors and advocates rallied in support of the victims of jeffrey epstein near the courthouse where his alleged accomplice. >> is on trial. 59 year-old is accused of. recruiting girls and abusing girls along with the financier and the convicted offender. we're talking about glenn maxwell. the demonstrators say the criminal justice system did not aggressively investigate maxwell and epstein decades earlier

that comes less than a week after the post reported new york attorney general letitia james has requestedrump himself given the position on january 7th as part of a civil fraud investigation. between all that, the revelations his friends on fox and his own sons were texting his chief of staff behind his back, it has been a not a great week for donald trump. it's only tuesday. only tuesday. my hygienist cleans with a round head. so does my oral-b my hygienist personalizes my cleaning. so does my oral-b oral-b delivers the wow of a professional clean feel every day. use a single hr software? nope. we use 11. eleven. why do an expense report from your phone when you can do it from a machine that jams? i just emailed my wife's social security number to the entire company instead of hr, so... please come back. how hard is your business software working for you? with paycom, employees enter and manage their own hr data in one easy-to-use software. visit paycom.com for a free demo. hon? first off, we love each other... over 158 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election, the highest

it's frust railing in that regard >> new york attorney general letitia james issued a warning to lab q diagnostics saying it promises results in 48 hours when it's been taking twice as long she called it, quote, absurd anyone should have to wait that long for a test result labs should help, but walgreens limiting customers to four tests at a time, if they can find it >> tests are sold out everywheret result labs >> while monthly supply is increasing from about 140 million last month to 300 million by march, customers are still finding them sold out. >> the last part of the equation is to be able to have the appropriate distribution and get tests where they're needed and that part is no different from toilet paper and christmas gifts.maker of one of the m >> so abbott, the maker of one of the most used rapid testsp said today it will increase supply to 70 million tests pera doctor, as always, thank month starting in january, up from 50 million, and can ramp up more in the months ahead shep >> i have used though. meg, thank you let's turn to dr. ashish jha, doctor, as always, thank you

now this comes on the heels of letitia james, her office sending a subpoena to trump to have him sit trump's attorneys said they'll move to quash that subpoena. >> kara scannell, thank you with that exclusive interview as well. we appreciate it. >>> let's discuss with former federal prosecutor ronato. i want to start with the trump lawsuit against the new york attorney general. what do you think. is this just a delay tactic or does he have a legit legal argument? >> yeah, i don't think it's worth the paper that it's printed on. it is, i think, designed to generate the discussion we're having here to get people talking, to highlight a talking point. i do think that certainly, if and when criminal charges are brought or civil investigation, you know, it turns into a civil lawsuit, i certainly think that's an argument that will be raised. and there's something to that argument in other words that she campaigned on this. but bring this now, there's no way that a judge is going to stop a constitutional officer in the state of new york from -- who is duly elected from carrying forward her

. >> he sues everyone and everything, but he is suing the new york attorney general, laity s letitia james the long-running civil investigation into the trump organization. two years, they've been investigating whether the trump organization misrepresented its assets to get better loan terms, better insurance rates and, of course, to pay lower taxes. her investigation mirrors a sim similar criminal investigation by the attorney general that already resulted in charges against the organization and one of its executives. now, interestingly, the timing on this lawsuit, this comes as james is seeking to depose the former president under oath next month. now, trump and his lawyers have long argued that james is politically motivated. they point to the fact she campaigned on a promise to target trump, and that is the basis of their lawsuit. they argue that she is violating trump's constitutional rights and abusing her office to pursue her own political aims. now, james has responded in a statement, saying, quote, to be clear, neither mr. trump nor the trump organization get to dictate if and whe

meanwhile, nbc news reporting new york state attorney general letitia james is looking to depose donald trump as part of her civil tax fraud investigation into the overall trump organization. this news first reported by "the washington post." trump's lawyers call the move, quote, purely political, and wait for it, a witch hunt. with that, let's bring three of the original friends of this broadcast who make up our starting line tonight. and here's a hint. one of them hasn't been up this late since new year's eve of 1996. i'm not going to say which one she is. phil rucker, pulitzer rise winning correspondent for the washington. nicole wallace. she happened to have been white house communications director for president george w. bush and a senior aide to john mccain's '08 effort. and eugene. good evening and welcome to you all. nicole, we're all business here as we start off tonight. so, here's the lead question for you. given your experience as white house communications director and an insider inside the west wing in an entirely different era, give us some idea of the scope and contents.

meanwhile, nbc news reporting new york attorney general of the state attorney general, letitia james, is looking to depose donald trump as part of her civil tax fraud investigation on to the overall trump organization. this news first reported by the washington post, trump's lawyers called the move, quote, clearly political and, wait for it, a witch hunt. with that, let's bring in three of the original friends of this broadcast who make up our starting line tonight. and here's a hint. one of them hasn't been up this late since new years eve of 1996. i am not going to say which one she is. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning senior washington correspondent for the washington post. coauthor along with the new york times bestseller, i alone can fix it. we nicolle wallace, anchor of deadline white house weekdays, a two hour shift every day from four to 6 pm eastern time on this very network. she happen to have been white house communications director for president george w. bush. and senior aide to john mccain 's presidential effort. and our friend eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winnin

. >>> the former president is suing new york attorney general letitia james, asking a federal court toct, claiming she's abused her investigatory powers to target her political adversaries and enhance her political career. he has a long history of suing people. for a look at that, here is 360s randi kaye. >> reporter: i'm like a ph.d. in litigation, okay? >> donald trump has had plenty of practice with it, too. in fact he and his businesses have filed lawsuits more than 2,000 times, according to "usa today." he's been at it a while. as far back as 1973 and trump and his father were accused by the justice department for violating the fair housing act for not representing to african americans. >> some of the applications were marked with a "c" which we learned that it meant colored. >> reporter: trump was just 27, but will be learned to deploy lawsuits as a weapon. so trump countersued the federal government for $100 million. in the end, trump's suit went nowhere and he settled out of court in the case against him without admitting guilt. there are practically too many lawsuits to count.

we just heard from letitia james, the attorney general for new york, who sent a warning to a new yorkrovider of testing, called lab q diagnostics, essentially saying they're advertising a two-day turn around for results when it is stepping to four days or more. she called it absurd they're waiting for so long. rapid tests provide another option but those are really hard to find in stores right now. in fact, cnbc.com reporting today walgreen's is limiting rapid test purchases to four per customer we talked with testing experts about what is happening with supply in that space and we have seen it increase over the previous few months. in november it was around 140 million tests available in that month. that's expected to get up to 300 million by march, but, jon, heading into the holidays they're calling it kind of a perfect storm of this testing demand and really not being able to be met, jon >> meg, thanks yes, difficult, if not impossible, to predict when all of these tests will be in demand when variants pop up like this >>> now, another obstacle to expanding testing abscess is simpl

. >> the lawsuit cites comments that the new york attorney general letitia james made in her 2018 campaignfter trump. could those comments by her come back to haunt her? >> they could, wolf. it's entirely possible that a court that looks at this claim determines that those comments were inappropriate. maybe there were things she should not have said. maybe they cast a light on her office that makes it appear as if she's, you know, head hunting or going after the former president. unfortunately, i don't think it goes much further than that. it's not an issue of conflict of interest. no allegation that she has a personal interest that would prohibit her from doing her job here. and let's be honest. i investigated many drug dealers and organized crime members and terrorists over the course of my time in the fbi. i didn't like any of them. it's common for prosecutors and -- to say things and announcements of indictments and different, you know, developments in a case talking about how strenuously they'll go after the defendant. people say things like that all the time. nothing much comes of th

instead letitia james says she plans to run for re-election as attorney general citing a number of importantons that she wants to finish. news today on one of those was big. james apparently wants former president trump to sit and testify in her office under oath for a deposition next month, january 7th. a source tells nbc news it's for a civil investigation. the ongoing probe is looking into whether the trump organization committed tax and bank fraud by manipulating the value of its properties. essentially the question is did the company inflate property values to get better loans and then lower property values to pay less taxes trump's attorney calls the investigation purely political he says mr. trump has done nothing wrong and that they're waiting to see the subpoena. this is separate from the manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation of the trump organization in that case the company's former cfo, allan weisselberg, has pleaded not guilty to running a tax fraud scheme it allegedly involved giving himself and other executives off the book benefits including luxury vehicles. >>

now trump and his lawyers have long argued that letitia james, that she is politically motivated, and abused her office to further her political career. now james' office has issued a statement in response saying, quote, to be clear, neither mr. trump nor the trump organization gets to dictate if and where they'll answer for their actions. our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name trump. >> all right. we'll see where this one goes. paula reid, thank you. >>> omicron fears around the world are impacting the markets here at home. it's not just the gut punch for the economy. we'll talk about more of the impact on your everyday life, next. i've spent centuries evolving with the world. that's the nature of being the economy. observing investors choose assets to balance risk and reward. with one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold. agile and liquid. a proven protector. an ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions. an asset more relevant than ever before. gold. your strategic advantage. (burke) this is why you want

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