susanne craig, great reporting. shermichael singleton, thank you, my friend. >>> up next on "the reidout," there are growing calls for george santos' expulsion after the house ethics committee released a scathing report concluding he broke multiple federal laws. go figure. this guy? really? stay with us. i was on a work trip when the pulmonary embolism happened. but because i have 23andme, i was aware of that gene. that saved my life. >>> look, we all know that the republican party is trump's party from snout to tail. but no one embodies the trumpian ethos quite like george santos. a man who fashioned his political persona on donald trump right down to the lying, the performative outrage and self-victimization. today, the house ethics committee released a scathing report after amassing overwhelming evidence of congressman santos' lawlessness. this report stated what the law, the media, law enforcement, the constituents of new york's third congressional district, what everyone already knew. which is that he was a lia

new york times investigative reporter susanne craig was in the courtroom today. she, of course, one of pulitzer prize for that remarkable reporting on donald trump's financial dealings and tax avoidance schemes. and she joins me. now it is wonderful to have you here. don jr., it seemed to me, his testimony -- he seemed to have a fairly plausible case that he did not actually know what was going on. >> you kind of wonder how much he was around. he did sign off on the number of documents that indicated that he knew about the statements of financial condition, and other things, but he's just less involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. but he is a fiduciary, and he -- statements. but you definitely -- eric was the one who is running the company in his father's absence. and that's -- no question about that. and became really clear, really early on in the trial that that was the case in terms of his testimony this morning. >> yeah, let's talk about that. it seems like it did -- my reading of the account is that it did not go great for him. is that a fair

and former united states attorney harry litman and "the new york times" investigative reporter susanne craig you. susanne, i want to ask you, the repository of all information about this, you are, about deutsche bank and the relationship to donald trump and his companies and the financing that they provided. why is this relevant or unusual? >> right. when you think about donald trump and his money for many years, you have to think about deutsche bank. they were his biggest lender for years, and they've loaned to some of his biggest projects when you think the old post office hotel in washington that the trump family recently sold. they were the biggest lender on that. they were the lender on doral, a golf course outside of miami. they were also right in the middle of the chicago project, a huge hotel that donald trump built in the 2000s, and they were the lender on that and that was his last actual full project that he built from the ground up, so deutsche bank is very intertwined with the trump family and all coming to the forefront in a courtroom in manhattan because a number of these loan

susanne craig, lisa rubin, thank you for starting us off. claire and basil are sticking around. when we come back, with battle lines drawn in the 2024 presidential election, the biden plan of attack. that is go on offense, travel to maga country. secretary pete buttigieg joins us on that topic next. >>> plus, newly unsealed text messages between a u.s. congressman and one of the 2020 coup architects revealing just how involved he really was in trying to overturn the election in controlling the department of justice. january 6th investigators on that. >>> and later in the show, new reporting aboutho some potentiay damaging testimony given to the special counsel in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. all those stories and more when "deadline: white house" continues after this. do not go anywhere.an"d se? will it get worse? how common is it? who can i talk to? can this be treated? stop typing. start talking to a specialized urologist. because it could be peyronie's disease, or pd. it's a medical condition where there is a curve in the erection, caused by a formation of scar t

joining me now, "new york times" reporter susanne craig, who has been closely watching the trial. t attorney, catherine christian. so susanne, the trial done for today. give us the latest in the back and forth over the judge's clerk. there were new developments after the judge slammed his desk yesterday, accuing trump's attorney of misogyny? >> this issue is now sort of overshadowing what was pretty significant testimony by eric trump about his involvement in some pretty key aspects of this case. but with the judge, this is just -- this has been a simmering issue with his clerk now for weeks. donald trump's lawyers have zeroed in on her and have been making a number of comments, everything from they don't -- they're saying she rolls her eyes sometimes in court. they have complained about that. but even more importantly, donald trump has gone after her, both in a social media post and then again in another instance. they just keep hammering on her. and this latest incident was over yesterday very late day in court, the clerk and the judge, they sit together in front of the courtroom

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joining us now, "new york times" investigative reporter susanne craig.nued, to borrow in the "new york times." there was more expert witnesses that came in, and i have to say my colleague kate was there so we didn't have to be. but it wasn't necessarily exciting fare, but there were two potentially important witnesses for the defense that came in. there was an insurance expert this morning and then there was a former executive of the trump organization, former controller of the organization. and broadly what the defense is trying to do at this point, they're trying to hit a few points. one of them is that these valuations, you've heard this before, but they're art and not science and that donald trump had wide latitude in the valuations that he was submitting on his financial statements that went to the bank and he could do that without crossing the line into fraud. and then the other point that they're trying to hit is we relied on outside accountants and we also expected the banks to do their own due diligence, so it's not on us. if they gave us a loan

joining our conversation, "new york times" investigative reporter susanne craig is back and with me atin and "new york times" editorial board member mara gay. susan, how did geoffrey mcconney's testimony read to you? >> it wasn't great in a lot of not great days for donald trump and the organization. there is a document that is out there, as you mentioned, the 2014 statements of financial condition. and right on the top of it, it says "djt to get final review." it really does tie trump to the document. we don't know if he got final review. but it shows there was some sort of acknowledgment in the organization that donald trump would sign off on these documents. and, you know, donald trump has really tried to distance himself from this. he has said that he has an army of accountants and lawyers who look at these things. and i always think it's interesting. with the trump organization, you hear on the one hand they're a mom and pop organization, very tightly run from the top down to the point where donald trump, up until the time he went to the white house was signing every check that we