even if he stepped away from the trump organization, he would fully know what would be benefiting fromery opportunity to try to promote his brand, his businesses. he announced his presidency from trump tower. recall this seems like a long time ago but he tried to steer the g7 summit to his doral property in florida. he goes to bedminster and his florida property repeatedly hundreds of times. we see him playing golf there. we see him playing golf at his resort in virginia frequently. so he has never made a secret of the fact that he seeks to promote his self, his business, and his own dealings through the presidency. i also take issue with the idea that the hatch act or the principle of not using the white house, not using taxpayer-funded property or your position as an elected official to advance your interest, i don't think that's an inside the beltway concern. in fact, i think it's the opposite. i think folks inside the beltway tend to get blind to those kinds of things once they see it too much. i think the american people, many of the american people, anyway, are very offended by t

so, this is potentially real trouble for the trump organization.'s not criminal charges but they're looking at whether there are other remedies such as disbanding the trump organization or civil penalties. but civil frauds can become criminal frauds. i kecan't tell how how many tim it started as this kind of a civil investigation. look, there has been public reporting and public testimony, including from michael cohen that one thing the trump organization would do is inflate the value of their assets when they're applying for a bank loan. and if that's what the facts prove out, this will be a straight-forward fraud case. >> what would be the next step? so, is it guaranteed that eric trump would be deposed, given that they're contesting that? >> the fact they want to depose eric trump tells me something important. i would speculate they probably have documents. you don't just try to depose someone cold. they have specific reason they want to depose, meaning question under oath, eric trump. that tells me they're on to something specific here. how doe

>> well, it's about the trump organization. arily about the president himself because, you know, the trump sons are obviously very involved in, in the trump organization. you know, this is a common kind of investigation. when there's, for fraud. because if you submit false information to get a loan, from a bank, that is a crime. it's a crime under federal law and it's a crime under state law. and you know, obviously what, what the attorney general in new york is looking at here is if false information was submitted intentionally. >> let me read the statement that trump organization issued in response to this, and here it is, quote. there's been no lawsuit filed by the new york attorney general, this is simply a discovery dispute over documents and the like. as the motion papers clearly state the new york attorney general has made no determination that anything was improper or that any action is forthcoming, we will respond to this motion as appropriate. what do you make of the snam statement? >> i think it is true that the exist

cites news records on, quote, possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the trump organization. and he drops hints suggesting that the information includes bank and insurance fraud, both felonies. the filing references congressional testimony from donald trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. remember him? in that hearing, cohen gave details on the hush money scheme he carried out, at donald trump's direction, and for which cohen is currently serving a three-year prison sentence, now in home confinement. but he also offered evidence of what he said was trump's propensity for lying to banks and insurance companies. >> i am giving to the committee today three years of mr. trump's personal financial statements. it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. >> did this information provided to us inflate the president's assets? >> i believe these numbers are inflated. >> and of course, inflating assets for a newspaper poll to boost your ego is not a crime, but to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to a

this is the president's son, eric trump, executive vice president of the trump organization, making thatal versus camp david where it's been in the past? >> because we would be doing it for nothing and a lot of people love south florida, it's the right time of year for it, and we've got a spectacular property. >> no one denies it's spectacular, but it appears to be a conflict, doesn't it? >> when they do g7s, this is one other thing people don't ever give us credit for, any time the government comes, my father travels, they stay at our properties for free, cost for housekeeping, we have to legally charge government something. so everywhere he goes, if he stays at one of our places, the government savingses a fourtune because we charge them like 50 bucks. >> let me tell you about the reality. "the washington post" reports donald trump has visited his own properties 271 times since he took office. taxpayers have paid trump businesses more than $900,000 during that time, including room rates for the secret service, required to travel with the president, up to $650 per night. a little more t

and later, the trump organization under investigation. eric trump taking the 5th. and bombshell reporting on how fox news is taking more control of the trump white house. back in 30 seconds. l of the trump white house back in 30 seconds inanimate! [ sigh ] people ask ... what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant? and, i tell them, "nobody should." hey, buddy. what's the damage? [ on the phone ] i bought it! the waterfall? nope! my new volkswagen. a volkswagen?! i think we're having a breakthrough here. welcome to caesar's palace. thank you. ♪ >>> new heat on president trump's family over this new york investigation of both president trump and the trump organization's finances. it grew out of michael cohen testifying that his former boss inflated assets for things like lones, insurance coverage. now eric trump is refusing to appear at all. he was scheduled for an interview last month. investigators believe he likely has information relevant to the inquiry. the trump organization responded to this request saying -- >> we're going to get into that in

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for months the trump organization has made baseless claims in an effort to shield evidence from a lawful investigation into its financial dealings. they have stalled withheld documents and instructed witnesses including eric trump to refuse to answer questions under oath. the petition also names four organization properties under investigation, 7 springs, 212 acre new york family estate in westchester, a building in lower manhattan, the trump international tower and trump national golf club in los angeles. the attorney general investigations started in 2019 after the president's former personal lawyer michael cohen testified to congress trump lied about assets. it has yet to determine if any laws were actually broken. the trump organization responding in part saying, quote, filing this motion on the first day of the republican national convention once again confirmed this investigation is all about politics. in a separate case manhattan district attorney agreeing to delay the subpoena. donald trump's tax returns as part of his investigation, made to silence women who claim they had affai

they suggest thes trump organization may have inflayed or deflated the value of certain asts..a. subpoena now ultimately saying that the reason why it is not so broad is because it does encompass things and they're pointing to public reports. i should note last year there were redactions over three pages in the d.a.'s filing in which they were describing the investigation. and that was sep rtd from hush money payments made to the two women michael cohen pleaded guilty to. but the d.a.'s office already signalled it went far. >> take us through this from a prus prosecutor's perspective. >> i take two big things away from this. first t shows me the manhattan d.a. and prosecutors are focussed and serious. they're not just poking around in terms of financial records. they're looking at specific crimes. it's important they're looking at more than the hush money payments. they're complex and difficult to make. what they're looking at have potential fraud related to the value of assets, over stating the value to get loans and when it comes to tax time. it's much easier for prosecutors

that's where trump's organization is. his charity.rity organizations, which are under fire for shenanigans. that's where they all are. now, this is a local, new york case. it's not a federal case. so, that's very important because it means, there is no way that donald trump, in his role as president, has any legal or managerial reception, let alone pardon power. joe biden, meanwhile, making news with this comment. >> i will not interfere with the justice department's judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law. >> including a former president? >> it depends on what happens. it depends on what happens. i think it is a very, very unusual thing. and probably, not very -- how can i say it -- good for democracy to be talking about prosecuting former presidents. >> we are joined, now, by a veteran of the mueller probe. a former prosecutor in the eastern district of new york. council at the fbi. and you may know him as an nbc legal analyst, andrew weissman. sir, how

the petition names for trump organization properties under investigation, seven at to hundred 12-acre new york estate in westchester, and make she is lower manhattan the trump international hotel and chicago tower as well as trump national golf club in los angeles. the attorney general's investigation started in 2019 after the president's former personal lawyer testified to congress that trump lied about assets. the office noting that they have to determine if any laws were actually broken. the trump organization responding saying filing of this motion on the first day of the republican national convention once again confirms this investigation is all about politics. in a separate case today manhattan set to delay the subpoena of presidents trumps tax returns as part of his investigation into payments made to silence women who claim they had affairs with the president. they are pressing pausing till after a federal appeals court rules on the federals request for a state. the deadline would've expired this week, but the delay gives the president one martine's to argue that the request

be scouring the deutsche bank documents to see what exactly was told to the bank about the trump organization assets. the other thing that i think is fascinating is that, you know, we had a case that went all the way up to the supreme court litigating whether the manhattan district attorney could get documents from the trump organization accountants. in the meantime, deutsche bank, instead of litigating it, just handed over the documents. handed over the documents. my suspicion is its question of ce to which donald trump's family and business dealings were not kosher to say the least. in it, there was an allegation that donald trump underestimated the value of some of his assets for purposes of taxation, which would lead him to have lower tax liability and overestimated them for purposes of the bank. do you think this has something to do with this whole thing? >> you know, i would suspect not in this case, ali. the da may go there, but i think a lot of the transactions, the times you're looking at in the piece you are referring to, i think the statute of limitations may have run out in terms

it involving the trump organization in the southern district of new york in the federal system but also the state there is a state grand jury proceeding cyrus vance the prosecutor manhattan went all the way to the supreme court and won his case seeking from organization financial records it does cyrus vance is investigating financial crimes by the trump organization that are alleged to have occurred just last week donald trump last again in the federal district court is attempt to block those subpoenas that's going to the sockets our court of appeals but the u.s. supreme court already waiting their. case i put it a make this brief and on last march trump versus last in the supreme court made it very clear those documents are going to be turned over to the grand jury in new york so yes there is an ongoing criminal investigation at the state level and there may be another one of the federal level in the southern district of new york at least $21.00 states are suing the u.s. postal service and the postman as a general who is the joy accusing them of intentionally effort to thwart motors fr

from david tharnfold, the filing asks a new york state judge to compel the trump organization to reveal information. the filing said that eric trump has been scheduled to be interview in the investigation in late july, but abruptly canceled that interview. the filing says that eric trump is now refusing to be interviewed, with eric trump's lawyers saying, we cannot allow the requested interview to go forward, pursuant to those rights afforded to every individual under the constitution. this being a trump family production, we will next hear from eric trump when he addresses the republican national convention tomorrow, as announced. trump's week of disunity is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. from "the washington post," white house bureau chief, phil rucker is back. also joining us, former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards. plus, former rnc chairman, michael steele, joining us now today, is a brand-new newly minted senior adviser to our friends at the lincoln project. that announcement coming on the first day of the republican convention, design

it shows you the way that the trump organization treated their captive customer, us. t to his hotel in turnberry, scotland in 2018, they had to move furniture. $1300 in furniture removal charges. that's the kind of charge that they may be doing all the time. we only know about this one because we sued to get these records. >> in response to the story, david, a white house spokesperson told your paper they were, quote, building up a very large dossier on stories that you and other journalists have written about you and the administration. talk about your reaction to that. >> well, if they think we did something wrong, we got some facts wrong -- obviously we asked them all kinds of questions before we published the stories to make sure we get their perspective. if they think we got something wrong, tell us. don't build up a whole dossier. call us up and tell us. anybody can. you don't have to be the president. that's what they're talking about, they don't need to build it up or put it in a leather-bound case. call us and tell us what we got wrong and we'll correct it. so

trump. this is what he does. he's really been against black lives matter for a long time. the organizationmovement did not start with that chant denigrating police officers. they started with the idea that trayvon martin was a young man who shouldn't have been killed. and they went onto talk about the fact there should be really reforms in policing, but the president continues to say these are anarchists. these are people who want america to be better and america to live up to the ideals of treating every man and woman equally. he was calling for some of the same things john lewis wanted which was a reuniting and really putting teeth back into the voting rights act. so that was president obama saying this is what john lewis' life work was about and we should continue to do that work. >> rene graham, this black lives matter issue is interesting because people who wear the shirt or have the sign don't in many cases know they have anything to do with an organization or founding principles of society, they're marxists or anarchists. most people hear the three words black lives matter and say t

investigators say hundreds of documents have been withhold by the trump organization in the course of this. and that makes it awkward that the two people in charge of the trump family business are preparing for their prime time addresses to the nation this week at their dad's presidential nominating convention. joining us now for more on this to help us understand where this is at in the process is andrew wiseman, former chief of the fraud section at the justice member. currently he is a professor at nyu law. thank you so much for being here tonight. it is nice to see you. >> nice to see you, rachel. >> so we are used to hearing about a lot of overlapping investigations of the president and his businesses. when it comes to the new york attorney general's office, we have seen them bring a frud suit against trump university, shut it down and a $25 million settlement was paid. we have seen the office bring a fraud suit against the president's charity and shut it down. the president had to pay $2 million in damages there. now the attorney general's office is engaged in some sort of civil

litigated but looks like in a filing that he is also looking at allegations of fraud in the trump organization and he has a lot looking into the president. >> when it comes to reading the new york times i take it with a grain of salt. when it comes to covering donald trump. this is the same newspaper that reported on february 14th i think it was, 2017, the trump campaign officials had regular contact with the russians during the campaign. that turned out to be bs. if i were anybody listening to what the new york times is saying i would take it with a grain of salt, their coverage when it comes to donald trump has been woefully inadequate and very biased so i don't trust anything when it comes to trump. shannon: all right, we got to go, college football rivalries this fall. will you have them in south carolina? speech can't believe we won't let south korean it -- south carolina and clemson play, 111 years they played, they need to play, florida florida state needs to play, georgia tech need to play, they need to get their act together and allow these rivalries to go forward. shannon: we will wa

there's an investigation into the trump organization financial practices and has asked the supreme court dom pell the company to cooperate. according to court documents, eric trump, the president's son and the company's executive vice president, canceled a scheduled interview two days before he was to answer questions under oath, citing concern the investigation was going, quote, beyond the scope of a civil inquiry. the documents reveal james' office was asked about representations made to banks and the reporting of forgiven loans to tax agencies. james tweeted. this i took action to force the trump organization and specifically evp to comply with my office's ongoing investigation into its financial dealings. for months the trump organization has failed to comply with our subpoenas into this investigation. eric trump then said this is the highest level of prosecutorial misconduct purposely dropped on the eve of the republican convention for political points. joining us now, msnbc's legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning. >> good morning, yasmin. >> i want to start with a civil invest

and its officers so they're looking deep into very clear that they're looking deep into the trump organizationp's attorneys have been arguing that this subpoena is asking for too much, going too far, it is unfair. in many ways what we hear from the president himself, how this is harassment. prosecutors have an answer for that and they're saying it's based on a lot of their information of the public records that are out there, news reports that have been out there that have been looking into the president's finances and what they write is that there are public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the trump organization. again, and they're arguing nothing improper for them to seek this information as part of their investigation going back eight years and looking for the documents from the accounting firm and the president's attorneys arguing they go too far, trying to go too far back in this and important to note that michael cohen is a witness for the prosecution, met with them many times here at the manhattan's d.a.'s office and federal judge has already decided on

i think it reflects the way he did business in the trump organization and i think one of his problems as president is that he still hasn't fully appreciated what it means to be president of united states as opposed to the head of the trump organization how credible is trump's claim not to have been briefed about reports that the russians paid the taliban to kill american soldiers you were national security advisor in march last year when this information apparently surfaced. well there have been press reports not a fact then you know press reports are sometimes wrong and in any event i have said repeatedly i'm not going to comment on that because it doesn't. intelligence i can say with respect to the information reported about this issue and 2020 that it's surprising to me that it wasn't briefed to the president the administration itself has apparently said it was in the presidential daily brief during my 17 months at the white house i never saw any evidence that the president read the p.t.b. in terms of whether or not it was briefed and said and i think it's important for people unde

as you said, the trump organization issued a legal threat when he said we couldn't show the film so wehows video in the documentary of you sitting down with donald trump. your arrest. you got an apology for it. film makers receives apology from scottish police for trumped-up arrest. you were able to speak to donald trump about this, at some point, obviously, before he was president? >> that's right. i did an interview with him in trump tower in new york 2013. that interview is in the second film i made "dangerous game" which came in 2014. then 2016, as we said, we tried to get this film out and part of that interview is in the film. and mr. trump, at the time, said he had nothing to say about my arrest. it was clear that the case at the time -- the trump organization was using the local police as a private security force. i mean, they had -- the police had regularly attended the land of michael forbes and spoke to michael forbes and then i found it when i was arrested and in jail. she said it was an appalling thing to happen. it was a first time, i understand, the journalist had been a

i think it reflects the way he did business in the trump organization and i think one of his problems as president is that he still hasn't fully appreciated what it means to be president of united states as opposed to the head of the trump organization credible is trying to claim not to have been briefed about reports that the russians paid the taliban to kill american soldiers you were national security advisor in march last year when this information apparently surfaced. well there have been press reports not a fact then you know press reports are sometimes wrong and in any event i have said repeatedly i'm not going to comment on that because it doesn't. intelligence i can say with respect to the information reported about this issue and 2020 that it's surprising to me that it wasn't briefed to the president the administration itself has apparently said it was in the presidential daily brief during my 17 months at the white house i never saw any evidence that the president read the p.t.b. and in terms of whether or not it was briefed said and i think it's important for people unders

i think it reflects the way he did business in the trump organization and i think one of his problems as president is that he still hasn't fully appreciated what it means to be president of the united states as opposed to the head of the trump organization on credible is trying to claim not to have been briefed about reports that the russians paid the taliban to kill american soldiers you were national security advisor in march last year when this information apparently surfaced. well there have been press reports that a fact then you know press reports are sometimes wrong and in any event i have said repeatedly i'm not going to comment on that because it doesn't. intelligence i can say with respect to the information reported about this issue and 2020 that it's surprising to me that it wasn't briefed to the president the administration itself has apparently said it was in the presidential daily brief during my 17 months at the white house i never saw any evidence that the president read the p.t.b. and in terms of whether or not it was briefed and said and i think it's important for p

there were broad hints that there were widespread hints in the trump organization. we knew from hints that he was poking around in there. but today i think they're making very clear is clock is running out. we want to get on with this investigation and these are very serious charges that we are looking at. we are not messing around here. >> so, yeah, what is your sense of the timing here? because i think after that supreme court decision, there was a whole bunch of different ways this could go and donald trump obviously has a long career of basically using the courts to stall people until they run out of money or energy and he could kind of wriggle out. what does this say about this time line that cy vance's d.a.'s office is pushing for? >> well, that may yet happen. the clock may yet be run out because already the subpoena was a year ago and now it is a year later and the d.a. has not even gotten the documents. you and i both looked at tax returns. it is not just you look at them and, boom, you've got the case figured out there. there is a long road ahead before th

i think it reflects the way he did business in the trump organization and i think one of his problems as president is that he still hasn't fully appreciated what it means to be president of united states as opposed to the head of the trump organization credible is trying to claim not to have been briefed about reports that the russians paid the taliban to kill american soldiers you were national security advisor in march last year when this information apparently surfaced. well there have been press reports not a fact then you know press reports are sometimes wrong and in any event i have said repeatedly i'm not going to comment on that because it doesn't. intelligence i can say with respect to the information reported about this issue and 2020 that it's surprising to me that it wasn't briefed to the president the administration itself has apparently said it was in the presidential daily brief during my 17 months at the white house i never saw any evidence that the president read the p.t.b. in terms of whether or not it was briefed and said and i think it's important for people unders

they want to be able to speak to eric trump under oath and also get more documents from the trump organization after they said that eric trump abruptly canceled a scheduled interview with their office last month and also said recently they heard from the trump organization that they did not want to provide further documents to them. >> all right, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. joining me now to discuss, dr. paul offut. he also serves on the fda vaccine advisory committee. dr. offut, thanks for joining us. so you said that you were seeing bullying at the highest levels of the fda, which commissioner stephen hahn denies. hahn says that he took an oath more than 30 years ago to do no harm. we heard from this chief of staff specifically talking about the fda. take a listen. >> if they don't see the light, they need to feel the heat because the american people are suffering. this president knows it. >> so, you don't believe he was feeling the heat and he made his judgment accordingly? >> i think we have two pieces of evidence for that. the first was hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug which

also refers to public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the trump organization that signals a significantly broader inquiry than prosecutors have indicated, at least in the past. you may recall the investigation was originally focused on hush money payments ahead of the 2016 campaign. well, today trump dismissed the latest revelations. >> this is just a continuation of the witch hunt. it's democrat stuff. they failed with mueller. they failed with everything. they failed with congress. they failed at every stage of the game. they send them around to all over the country, i guess, maybe. but it's a terrible thing that they do. it's really a terrible thing. the witch hunt has gone on long enough. >> here for our leadoff discussion on a busy monday night as we begin a new week, phil rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for "the washington post." his co-author, carol leonnig, the two of them out with the best-selling book "a very stable genius." anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor for politico. and dr. mercedes carnethon, v

investigators have a deep view inside the family and inside the trump organization. >> yeah. these various ways of understanding who donald trump is. he's emotionally and psychologically damaged. he has issues around competence. the money trail is also an important way to understand what motivates him both in his business and currently as president. deutch bank unlocks a key on this. other big banks wouldn't deal with donald trump. deutch bank did. donald trump throughout his career concerted with members of organized crime in atlantic city and in his real estate dealings. he has transactions overseas that could shed light on his aftfinity for vladimir putin. just to shade a little bit of what nick was saying, i don't know that deutch bank has turned on him. they have to respond to a subpoena here. they've spent the better part of two decades working closely with him. i don't think this would have come to light but for the fact that cy vance is working on this and based on michael cohen's testimony that said trump routinely inflated the value of his assets to banks and insuran

we have newly released details of an investigation into the president and the trump organization.ter has these developments, and so tom, we had been expecting some movement after the -- after this supreme court finally ruled on what cy vance and the new york investigators could get their hands on. what are we learning today? >> this is actually an entirely different investigation being led by the new york attorney general, letitia james. it's important to note this is a civil investigation, not a criminal investigation. what that means is this is an investigation that at this stage will not lead to anybody being put into handcuffs. she can make criminal referrals to various district attorneys' offices, but she cannot make criminal arrests and charges, at least at this stage of where we're at. specifically, let's get to it, there are a number of trump properties and filings and whether or not loans were properly sought based on accurate financial documents or whether or not property values were depreciated to lower real estate taxes. the properties are the seven springs estate, tha

november the request for mr trump's tax returns stems from a criminal investigation into the trump organization in the last hour mr trump has been holding a meeting with iraqi prime minister mustapha al qaida me likely top of the agenda what we knew was going to be the future of iran $5000.00 u.s. troops still stationed in iraq as well as relations with iran we have been taking our troops out of iraq fairly rapidly and we look forward to the day when we don't have to be there and hopefully iraqi live their own lives and they can defend themselves which they've been doing long before we got involved in other news the russian opposition politician alexina bell needs in a serious but stable condition after what his spokeswoman says was a suspected poisoning he was on a flight to moscow when he fell ill the general prosecutor's office and roosters opened a criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures protesters say they'll continue to defy warnings from the president alexander lukashenko of a renewed crackdown he's ordered his security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks

. >> well, it's all family for the trump organization.e itself is a large part of how they make money because the trump organization licenses out that name, keeping it prominent, keeping it in the headlines, it has always been part of president trump marketing. eric trump is-- and you have probably seen him in headlines just in the past 24 hours, locked in this argument with new york state and their attorney general's office about coming in and revealing more information about basically they're accusing him of fraud, of misstating past financial assets in order to get loans. we know president, when he was running the organization, went through bankruptcies of his organization six times. this has always been something that has been a problem for the trump organization, but, of course, the scrutiny now of this office, this state and other offices, are really coming through that, looking at tax records. as we know, that's still caught up in the courts as well. >> o'donnell: all right, margaret, thank you. and now we'll hear from the presiden

. >> there's a city prosecutor that confirmed a criminal investigation into the trump organization. do you have any reaction to that? >> this is just a continuation of the witch hunt. it's democrat stuff. they failed with mueller. they failed with everything. they failed with congress. they failed at every stage of the game. this has been going on for 3 1/2, 4 years, even before i got in, this was starting with the mueller deal. mueller started a little bit after. but it started with some of the people that you know very well, the names. strong and page and all of the different people, comey. this is a continuation of the worst witch hunt in american history. and there's nothing that i know even about it. i had seen that today just a little while ago. and i said what's this all about? i know nothing about it. but it's just a continuation of the witch hunt. didn't work out for congress or for mueller, didn't work out for anybody. so what they're doing is they send them all over the country, maybe. but it's a terrible thing that they do. it's really a terrible thing. the witch hunt ha

>>> french president emmanuel macron led a meeting which president trump atented. organizers say donors pledged $298 million in aid to beirut after last week's devastating explosion. the tragedy led to days of protest in lebanon for more on this, here's nbc's reporter >> reporter: after the massive protest we saw here, people are back on the streets clashing again with the government. people are just so angry about this blast here on tuesday and they absolutely blame the government for what happened >> the president said it's an accident it's a crime, not an accident. and they are not martyrs, they are victims. >> they have the real authority. that's why we will not get out of the streets until our needs are met, until the new elections and all three pillars of our government are taken down. >> reporter: people are telling me they will not accept the resignation of the country's information minister what they want is for the whole

returns told a judge he was justified in demanding them, citi extensive criminal conduct in the trump organizationmr. trump saidha is presidential harassment. last month, the supreme court rejected claims that the president could not be criminally investigated while in office. the italian city of genoa has opened a new brie almostwo years after 43 people were killed when the previous one collapsed. the new structure was designed by the renowned arc otect, a natithe city. mark was at the inauguration and has more. reporter: it has taken jusover a year to build a bridge in a company --ountry where infrastructure projects are notoriously slow. it is a beautiful new structure, sleek steel and concrete that sweeps across the country, by theti interal renowned architect renzo piano. they have word at breakneck speed to work it up in time. they worked through the coronavirus at the outbreak, which really floored italy. it is now being inaugurated, the italy are here andresidenterf has met the relatives ofct the 3 s of the collapse of the old bridge. . it was one of the worst infrastructure disasters in m

what they don't have are the business records of the trump organization, the accounting records they'vefor including drafts of tax returns and instructions by trump. and the banking records. once they have all of those records and present them to a grand jury i would anticipate you see donald trump indicted. >> and so, where would it go from there? >> once the grand jury hands up an indictment, there will be a specification of charges so we won't actually see, for example, the banking records but the indictment will contain specific information. it is alleged that the defendant did the following act on the following date or time period. and so we'll see some outline of what's involved. the next thing we're most likely to see is something leaked from the defense. in all my 50 years of doing this i never had a prosecutor leak a prosecution but defense lawyers and secondary parties leak all the time. particularly if there's a very bad piece of news to get out and get covered and then forgotten about. >> that's very interesting. i want to turn to twitter and facebook, both social media gian

his brother had been a top executive at the trump organization, they had a very close relationship, andbook and robert trump was the one who put out the restraining order to try to block the book from being published. so clearly working on his brother's behalf. they had a strong relationship. and again we're still waiting for some details here as to what exactly happened. what was this illness, he did pass earlier tonight, i want to say that he even talked about his brother the last three days, quite often. last night at a police event with the new york police union, he said that his brother loved the police, he referred to him as how close they are. this is a man that doesn't have a lot of very close friends. and very close family. he's very particular about who he keeps near him. it's clear his relationship with robert, it was something he valued deeply and something he cherished. >> even though he supported his brother, he was loyal, very different from donald trump. not flamboyant, didn't seek the limelight. what more can you tell us about his personality. >> he was very behind the

first, the investigation into the trump organization we learned about today. point is this a question of when and not if prosecutors in new york get their hands on president trump's financial records? >> that is it. if you read the supreme court's opinion in this case, they left no doubt that the new york county district attorney and the grand jury have the right to get the financial records, and i think they are likely to get a ruling sooner, rather than later. probably in the next month or so. that is a final, final ruling. the important thing to remember though is that this is a grand jury investigation in that it is secret. the documents, including the tax returns will be turned over only to the grand jury and not publicly disclosed unless there is a trial which is probably many months down the road if it happens yes, the prosecutors will get these documents, but it's not like the congressional investigation, where there is a good chance the documents would then become public. >> we heard teed from a federal judge whose son was shot and killed at their hou

what it means to be president of united states as opposed to the head of the trump organization how credible is trying to claim not to have been briefed about reports that the russians paid the taliban to kill american soldiers you were national security advisor in march last year when this information apparently surfaced. well there have been press reports not a fact then you know press reports are sometimes wrong and in any event i have said repeatedly i'm not going to comment on that because it doesn't. intelligence i can say with respect to the information reported about this issue and 2020 that is surprising to me that it wasn't briefed to the president the administration itself has apparently said it was in the presidential daily brief during my 17 months at the white house i never saw any evidence that the president read the p.t.b. in terms of whether or not it was briefed and said and i think it's important for people understand that i agreed with susan rice who has written in our bed where she said if she were a national security adviser and that information had come to her attentio

just this week, the new york attorney general filed legal action against the trump organization and hassked the courts to compel eric trump to testify. first lady melania trump delivered her keynote address in the rose garden yesterday. in her speech, she demonstrated the first attempt at sympathy at the republican national convention for the more than 170,000 americans who have died from the coronavirus. >> the invisible enemy covid-19 swept across our beautiful country and impacted all of us. my deepest sympathy goes out to everyone who has lost a loved one. and my prayers amid those who are ill or suffering. i know many people are anxious and some feel helpless. i want you to know you are not alone. my husband's administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine available to everyone. donald will not rest until he has done all he can to take care of everyone impacted by this terrible pandemic. >> all right. so the opening night of the republican national convention drew in far fewer viewers than the state of convention back in 2016. night one only

joining me now, an expert on the trump organization. executive vice president at trump's construction company working on trump tower. good to have you with us. welcome back to "the beat." i'm curious to get your take. does this max your knowledge from donald trump to your experiences working for him? >> well, in a couple ways, absolutely. number one, who knows if he was a "d" or an "a." he may have made that up. but as far as the idea that he would go and sue somebody to win what he needs to win or increase his standing or intimidate that, that's unnecessary in my opinion. >> there is a videotape where trump seems shocked, not that this is happening, but that he is personally being sued. i want to play it for you. >> is there something we can do about that? you know, i've had hundreds of cases. >> it seems he's agitated he's being personally sued here. trump says he usually insulates himself from these types of lawsuits. what do you think about that? >> he has a perception of the law that's very interesting. he writes the laws as he goe

district attorney wants the records based on public reports of "extensive criminal conduct" at the trump organizationam is still fighting the returns' release. monday he again called the investigation a democratic plot. >>> now we want to offer an apology. >> yesterday on "world news now," we made insensitive and unacceptable remarks about the name of tropical system isaias. we heard from many of you who helped us understand why we were wrong, and we apologize. >> we will do better. >>> coming up, what we're learning about the cause of california's devastating apple wildfire. >>> plus the emotional plea from a federal judge. her son shot and killed in their home as he answered the door. her husband wounded. what she's now saying this morning. >>> the toddler who may have just become the youngest person ever to climb to the top of a 10,000-foot mountain. 10,000-foot mountain. for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. >>> investigators say the apple >>> investigators say the apple wildfir

, the trump organization, which is under investigatione manhattan district attorney's office. the this now moves it one step closer certainly for the manhattan d.a. to finally get the tax documents and information that they have been seeking from his accountants, from the president's accountants. this ruling by the judge -- this judge is moving quickly here. there's a lot of speculation that this could possibly take some time, but the judge has been saying that he wants to move this along. you said -- you read what he said in this decision, and for the manhattan d.a.'s office, certainly they need these documents sooner rather than later. they are hoping to get these sooner now that we have this decision. one thing to note, jim, is that the president and his team can't appeal this decision, but certainly people inside the manhattan d.a.'s office expect this to move sooner, quicker than they would normally move in certain cases, so that is a thing here. big thing here is that the manhattan d.a.'s office is one step closer in getting the tax

[applause] this has long been the philosophy at the trump organization.t my father's company, there are more female than male executives. women are paid equally for the work that we do and when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out. [applause] women represent 46 percent of the total u.s. labor force, and 40 percent of american households have female primary breadwinners. in 2014, women made 83 cents for every dollar made by a man. single women without children earn 94 cents for each dollar earned by a man, whereas married mothers made only 77 cents. as researchers have noted, gender is no longer the factor creating the greatest wage discrepancy in this country, motherhood is. as president, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. and he will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all. as a mother myself, of three young children, i know how hard it is to work while raising a family. and i also know that i'm far more fortuna