they felt they were drawn up, upsold to buy more and more and more. >> it was a business that startednline. this was never supposed to be a live event seminar, started online and donald trump was approached with this idea and then they expanded it because they thought they were going to make a killing, for awhile they did make a killing. the problem is the real estate market died. >> and he is at the top, he is getting 20,000 pages of glowing reviews of his university that he essentially delegated. it was a success, many say it was a success. it is worth mentioning the lead plaintiff in the case in california had to be partially decertified because she claimed she was broke, leaving trump university making $300,000, and giving glowing reviews of the my name is jamir dixon and i'm a locate and mark fieldman for pg&e. most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg&e. my truck is something new... it's an 811 truck. when you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you don't hit them when you're digging. 811 is

. >> reporter: the university seminars at first free were aggressively upsold from $1,500 to $35,000. students allegedly encouraged to max out their credit cards. >> i was highly deceived. >> reporter: plaintiff george hannah said he drained his retirement to pay for the trump university. >> i've got this sick feeling in my stomach to not only see that, you know, from my own personal experience but i see him plays the same exact cards with the whole country. >> that was katy tur reporting. >>> hillary clinton capitalized on the revelations in newark, trying to demonstrating -- >> his own employees testified that trump "u" -- you can't make this up, that trump "u" was a fraudulent scheme where donald trump enriched himself at the expense of hard working people. this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. he is trying to scam america the way he scammed all those people at trump "u." it's important that we recognize what he has done because that's usually a pretty good indicator of what he will do. >> clinton's campaign retweeted old tweets from both mitt romney and

. >> reporter: the university seminars at first free were upsold from $1,500 to $35,000. students encouraged to max out their credit cards. >> i was highly deceived. >> reporter: the plaintiff said he drained his retirement to pay for trump university. >> i get this sick feeling in my stomach to not only see from my own personal experience. i see him playing those same exact cards with this whole country. >> if it looks like these businesses were not well-run it could cut a real hole into his case that he is the best person to run this country and make it great again. >> reporter: katy tur, nbc news, sacramento. >>> i'm kristen welker in new jersey where hillary clinton wasted no time going after donald trump on trump university. >> this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. >> reporter: the clinton team hoping they've finally found a message that sticks painting the businessman as a con artist. >> he's trying to scam america the way he scammed all those people at trump u. >> reporter: it's not the first time trump's rivals have tried that strategy.

they felt they were drawn up, upsold to buy more and more and more. >> to the politics of this, donald's candidacy is about selling success i think and that's what trump university was about also, selling success. and if it's proven in a court of law that it wasn't success that was being sold, it was something else, however you would define it, drew, i'm not sure how you would, and that people felt that they were, you know, conned or on this -- >> do you know how much money donald trump made? >> estimated he personally made $5 million. >> for a guy worth $10 billion, do you need $5 million so badly that you're willing to gamble your reputation, everything on at the very least, i don't know how to describe it fairly, it's a gamble. >> it was a business that started online. this was never supposed to be a live event seminar, started online and donald trump was approached with this idea and then they expanded it because they thought they were going to make a killing, for awhile they did make a killing. the problem is the real estate market died. >> and he is at the top, he is getting 20,0

. >> reporter: the university seminars at first free were aggressively upsold from $1,500 to $35,000. students allegedly encouraged to max out their credit cards. >> i was highly deceived. >> reporter: plaintiff george hannah said he dreamed his retirement to pay for trump university. >> i get this sick feeling in my stomach to not only see that, you know, from my own personal experience but i see him playing the same exact cards with this whole country. >> if it looks look like the businesses are not well run it can cut a real hole into his case he's the best person to run this country and make it great again. >> reporter: katy tur, nbc news, sacramento. >>> i'm kristen welker in new jersey where hillary clinton wasted no time going after donald trump on trump university. >> this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. >> reporter: the clinton team hoping they finally found a message that sticks. painting the billionaire businessman as a con artist. >> he is trying to scam america the way he scammed ail those people -- all those people at trump "u." >> reporter: i

pressed about the new unsealed documents related to trump university school and accusations that upsoldstudents who couldn't afford it. today's rally is expected to go from 7:00 to 8:30. >>> the hillary campaign tour is expected to make a stop in california today. >> optics are not bad if she does not win in california. >>> bernie sanders is continuing his trip in the bay area. he told a large crowd in silicon valley he plans on vying for the democratic nomination. he has the support from the tech industry which is key for his campaign. our political coverage continues online at nbcbayarea.com. go to decision 2016 section. >>> i hope the candidates can take the heat. temperatures cranking up. >> go to san francisco. that's where it's cool. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. it's going to be like that once again. the sun is up. you've got clear skies. we'll see sunshine in the tri-valley but at the coastline it will stay foggy a little bit longer. 71 in san francisco. 83 for the east bay. 82 for the peninsula. the south bay up to 95 degrees. even the tri-valley pushing 100 and north bay up

in fact, the presentation that james harris gave where he upsold me to a $35,000 investment was a verypresentation. in fact, gave a positive review of that presentation. as trump has frequently noted, there is nothing fair about this case. and in large measure, thanks to a politically activist federal judge in california and publicity hungry democratic attorney general in new york, that is not likely to change soon. the quotation of the evening, this one from will rogers who said "people are getting smarter nowadays. they're letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guide." we're coming right back. stay with us. >>> donald trump is fighting off attacks from every corner. the liberal national media and of course hillary clinton. will clinton's scandals be her undoing or just a boost for trump in the general election? >> i think the report is a disaster. it really shows that she's corrupt if you think of it. i mean it's not just the report. it shows that she's corrupt. >> and up next, this driver puts on a high speed performance complete with a wild ramp up he certainly will n

in fact, the presentation that james harris gave where he upsold me to a $35,000 investment was a very good presentation. in fact, i gave a positive review of that presentation. you went to the quick turn real estate retreatment at the conclusion of it in june of 20 a 09? did you have any complaints about that program? >> no, there were no complaints no. >> reporter: how would you at that time have described the program. >> >> cohen, i thought it was a good class. it gave good information. it was, you know, at a high level. >> the case is utterly equivocal and could go either way. when the evidence is equivocal it depends upon the attitude of the court, the nature of the jurors and the skill of the lawyers. >> reporter: donald trump has hey alleged booisd on the part of the federal judge presiding over this case but is still vowing to take it all the way to trial. that paroleding would likely be delayed until after election day. a separate $40 million lawsuit has been filed by the democratic attorney general of new york state. bret? >> james, thank you. james, by the way, will join our

they say that they were just bewildered by what turns out to be motivational speakers that upsold them into these systems and they didn't learn anything and left with bills of $34,000, that's a lot of money for people. >> he didn't want to join the debate because of megyn kelly, so how does it stand? >> i was there in iowa when he said he would hold the fund-raiser because he didn't want to do a debate with fox news because he said he didn't want to be treated unfairly and when he feels he's treated unfairly, he takes his ball and goes home. he goes across town and raises $6 million and to drew's reporting -- >> that's a good thing. >> that's a great thing. and i think the lesson for donald trump in all of this is that he could have taken what could have been a fantastic story for him, like an unbelievable story, a great story that could have so much goodwill that he was able to build up in however he has turned it into a negative. he turned it into a negative because he didn't do correct accounting. raising money is very difficult and you have to call in the chips for the money, and i

seminars that started out as free and were upsold to $1500 and eventually $35,000.a class action lawsuit right now, alleging fraud from donald trump, for that university, saying that it didn't deliver what donald trump had promised. in the ads, he says he hand-picked a number of the teachers, the lecturers, the speakers, as part of these seminars, but in his own sworn test -- deposition, relating to this case, he admits he had nothing to do with who was chosen for leadership roles in this university. a number of students and teachers coming out, saying that they were dissatisfied with it, saying that it was essentially a shakedown, more involved in taking money away from the uneducated and the elderly, rather than actually educating people how to take advantage of the real estate market. remember, this is coming in 2009, 2010, at the bottom of the recession, during the housing crisis, when many were looking for a way to earn an extra buck during this downturn. in the lawsuit, in the playbooks, donald trump encourages people to take advantage of foreclosures. he also

in fact, the presentation that james harris gave where he upsold me to a $35,000 investment was a very good presentation. in fact, i gave a positive review of that presentation. you went to the quick turn real estate retreatment at the conclusion of it in june of 20 a 09? did you have any complaints about that program? >> no, there were no complaints no. >> reporter: how would you at that time have described the program. >> >> cohen, i thought it was a good class. it gave good information. it was, you know, at a high level. >> the case is utterly equivocal and could go either way. when the evidence is equivocal it depends upon the attitude of the court, the nature of the jurors and the skill of the lawyers. >> reporter: donald trump has hey alleged booisd on the part of the federal judge presiding over this case but is still vowing to take it all the way to trial. that paroleding would likely be delayed until after election day. a separate $40 million lawsuit has been filed by the democratic attorney general of new york state. bret? >> james, thank you. james, by the way, will join our

educational institutional experience with donald trump at the helm and they found they were uptold -- upsold. and donald trump not having much involvement. now, craig, you know that jay-z says i'm not a businessman, i'm a business, man, a brand. and that would be part of donald trump's defense here. he has people who say you could go to trump or trump university. it doesn't mean donald trump is going to be making your mixed drink it at the bar or teaching in individual seminars. let me show you this quote from kissy gordon. i understood i would not be working personally with donald trump. we really learned a lot. i personally never expected trump to hold my hand along way. i'm sure other people did and they had an understanding of how the program works. that is the dispute. politically people are going to draw their own conclusions about the different opinions that we're seeing in this case. >> not just our chief legal correspondent but also our resident expert on all things hova. the republican leader appearing on cnbc did not mince words with what he sees ailing trump's campaign right now.

they say that they were just bewildered by what turns out to be motivational spaebeakers who upsold them into these things. they didn't learn anything. they're left with $34,000. that's a lot of money to people. >> mark says he's looking for credit for what he did for the veterans. the event was originally because he didn't want to join the debate for fox news, remember, because of megyn kelly. so how does that claim stand? >> it's ridiculous. it's absolutely ridiculous. i was there in iowa that night when he decided to hold this fund-raiser because he didn't want to do a debate on fox news because he thought he was being treated unfairly. and when he's being treated unfairly, he is going to take his ball and go home. in this case, he decided to go across town. they rented out an auditorium. it just so happens to be an auditorium that cnn had held a democratic town hall in just a few days earlier. donald trump goes there and he raises $6 million. and to drew's reporting, you know -- >> that's a good thing. >> it's a great thing. and i really think that the lesson for donald trump in all

and although the court in criminal matters had clearly held at this a warrantless wiretap upsold the fourth amendment. they even took to it the supreme court because they felt there was inherent power. you and i both know as lawyers if there is it is a trace pass the common law, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to extend that from the trace pass via the telephone to trespass via the surreptitious mail openings. a dangerous road we were hustling down. >> if that's your just indication, why did you call it illegal? what you're suggesting it is legal for the president to violate rights, constitutional legal rights of citizens if he is the president if he invokes national security as a justification. but you didn't say that in your memo. you said these things are illegal. now which it is? >> well, i think for the purposes it seemed to me most relevant at the time, that is that the operative action, the operation is going to be undertaken by an individual who if he is caught is going to go to jail, he is clearly illegal. >> and so that it would be fair to say you understood and told t

railroad the university seminars were aggressively upsold from $1500 to $35,000.credit cards. >> i was highly deceived. >> reporter: this plaintiff says he drained his retirement to pay for trump university. >> i get the sick feeling in my stomach to not only see that, you know, from my own personal experience, but i see him playing the same exact cards with this whole country. >> so joe, hillary clinton capitalized on the revolutions at a rally in newark yesterday trying to demonstrate that they are part of a wider trump narrative. >> his own employees testified that trump u -- you can't make this up -- that trump u was a fraudulent scheme where donald trump enriched himself at the expense of hard working people. this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. he is trying to scam america the way he scram all those people at trump u. it's important that we recognize what he has done because today's usually a pretty good kaeter of what he will to. >> pretty strong. clinton's campaign also retweeted old tweets from both mitt romney and marco rubio