tim o'brien is a senior columnist for bloomberg opinion.hat does it for me. thank you for watching velshi. catch me here next saturday and sunday from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. eastern. go nowhere, because a loaded sunday show with jonathan capehart starts right now. >>> it's october 24th. i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday, we're watching a white house in action, with breaking news this morning that president biden is set to meet with senator joe manchin and senate majority leader chuck schumer this morning in delaware. and after a jam-packed week of legislative meetings featuring lawmakers of all congressional -- of all stripes, congressional democrats and president biden are signaling that a final agreement on the build back better act could, could come as soon as this week. >> we had a very positive meeting this morning. i'm very optimistic. >> but you feel like a deal is close? >> i think it's very possible. >> very possible. that is, of course, if holdout democratic senators manchin and kyrsten sinema get onboa

joining us now is tim o'brien, senior columnist for bloomberg opinion. ou've been there with donald trump in the world of depositions. he's going to take that oath and he's going to be one sentence away from perjury every moment he is under oath. and in any civil suit he can be asked, for example, about his net worth because his ability to pay damages is part of the testimonial base of the case. there's landmines everywhere for him. >> we've talked about this before, lawrence, but donald trump is every lawyer's nightmare under deposition. he's a pathlogic liar. he's undisciplined. he's prone to exaggeration. for journalists and people like you and me this is awesome theater, and it comes in ideally to the public record. i think the issue in this deposition is what kind of meat is going to be there given all the other issues swirling around him right now, specifically i think the january 6th inquiry by congress and the manhattan district attorney's office's financial fraud investigation of the trump organization and trump himself. for both of those cases t

interested in some other offers and he gave a list leslie martin, tony marson, charles johnson, tim o'brien and tc boyle, those of the books opened up the world to me in the universe i read and read sometimes i would reducing victory three times and i planted the seed if i write anywhere even close to some of these writers and i can't say that i cannot apply my way in the field of journalism and i did i went up in alabama they planted the seed and now looking back on it is also an inspiration for writing my own book at age 55. >> i'm going to ask you both a question, and impact question or a question of something that would happen when you were doing your work, patrick the empire of pain, you take on three generations of a powerful family and i'm wondering because i had experience in my own writing and recording did you ever feel threatened or intimidated by this family or the lawyers for that family. >> first thing i should say for the sake of clarity i wrote this big book three generations of the family the family would not talk to me they did not want me too write the book and they start

joining our conversation is tim o'brien and charlie sykes is back with us.void taxes because michael cohen testified under oemg that that is exactly what donald trump does where does this investigation come from. >> it came from the same place every other investigation surrounding donald trump, and it is whether or not he lies to one group for example lower his tax rate and said the value of the property is less than it actually is and turns around to the bank and getting a bigger loan and the issue is whether or not that amounts to illegal deception. i think mimi rocca's case is a very targeted case if the whole sweep of things. this is not as sweeping as the manhattan d a but it still involved potential illegal. trump is going after mimmy rocca and she was a critic on social media but elected by the voters of west chester to hold the office she's in now and she's exercising the powers an the duties of that office and it is yet another bon fire that trump's lawyers have to put out because he has decades financial shenanigans dancing around like skeletons ha

joining us now is tim o'brien, senior columnist, and author of the book trump nation, jim was sued bys going to be one sentence away from perjury, every moment he is under oath. and in any civil suit, he can be asked for example, about his net worth. because his ability to pay damages is part of the testimonial base of the case, there's land mine everywhere for him. >> we've talked about this before, lawrence but donald trump's every lawyers, nightmare under deposition, he's a pathological liar, he's undisciplined, he's prone to exaggeration. for journalists, and people like you and me, this is awesome theater, and it comes ideally to the public, record i think the issue in this deposition is. what's kind of me is going to be there, given all the other issues swirling around him right, now specifically i think, the january six inquiry from congress in the manhattan district attorney's office, financial fraud investigation of the trump organization, and trump himself, for both of those cases, those involve issues that i'm not a sure are going to arise to deposition territory in this ca

tim o'brien, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> well, good evening once again. day 268 of the biden administration. and we begin tonight with the breaking news we've been covering this evening on former president bill clinton. he is hospitalized tonight in california at the university of california irvine medical center. a spokesman for the former president released this statement tonight. it reads, "on tuesday evening president clinton was admitted to uci medical center to receive treatment for a non-covid-related infection. he is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses and staff providing him with excellent care. clinton's doctor says he's being continuously monitored and is responding well to antibiotics. the california-based medical team has been in constant communication of course with the new york team including his cardiologist. president clinton a long-time heart patient of course is 75 y