all that and more, when the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. here we go, after yet another week of growing pressure, the former president is taking his attacks on the fbi to an even more alarming, and potentially, dangerous level. donald trump and his allies have been escalating their rhetoric against law enforcement, ever since the search of his florida home, which was almost two weeks ago. america s law enforcement officials are now on high alert, and they ve been asking to tamp down the heat of rhetoric. but tonight, here we are again. on trump s social media site, i want you to hear how he referred to the fbi and doj. quote, atrocities being perpetuated by the fbi and doj having to do with the raid and breaking of my home, mar-a-lago. he goes on to write, they have no shame. they are destroying our country! of course, there was no break in. the fbi s search, not raid, was carried out legally, with a signe
spoken with have said, even that s not clear what that means. the doctor may say this is a dangerous pregnancy that should be terminated, but in a state where you have government attorneys looking to make an example out of someone, even that is not clear to drop the doctors, and that s gonna prevent women from getting the help they need, it will prevent woman who are miscarrying to get the help they need, and it will prevent doctors from acting because it s a felony. because this is one of the most important things to happen on november 8th. and hands off to gretchen lippman or, for saying we have to do something preemptively about this. we will watch that one we will watch a lot of things on november 8th, but that one i will be paying attention. to alex, get some rest. you ve earned it, you deserve it. we ll see you next week. thanks, ali. have a great. so donald trump is using the fbi search of his florida property to appeal to his extremist supporters and bring r
assassination attempt. another hour of velshi begins right now. ght now. good morning, saturday august 20th. not am in the 6 am in the west, i m ali bell. she hardly a day passes without a development in the investigation that is somewhat connected to donald. trump that is because there are no fewer than four current and ongoing criminal investigations. related to the president himself, relative to have ever set of inquiries across multiple states. it all culminated in an fbi search of his private awaits us in palm beach florida. let s go to, new york where trump spent the vast majority of his life and career before he became president. he is facing a pair of inquiries into his company s business practices. when is a civil case which is headed by the new york, state attorney general letitia james. he was looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, either to receive loans from the bank or to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. trump appear
4095, that is how many lawsuits former president donald trump or his organization, has been involved in, according to usa today. and they cover everything from defamation, contract disputes, personal injury, and more. and they spanned three decades. donald trump has been the defendant in almost 2000 of those civil suits. but the former president has never been a defendant in a criminal trial. if that changes, the trump playbook we have grown so familiar with, the path he nears, the vengeful outbursts, the dangerous lies, they will have no power there. the former president is connected to criminal investigations on multiple fronts. there is the justice department s investigation on trump s handling of classified documents, which most recently was a federal judge says he is inclined to unseal parts of the search affidavit and has ordered the justice department to make redactions. then, there s trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. his former white hous
donald trump has convinced his supporters agencies nonpartisan public servants are out to get him. after the fbi search false claims about records stored at the national archives facility. set aside for use of president obama s presidential library. sitting a person familiar with the situation, a report quotes on friday the hoffman estates, police departed increased patrols around the building after a spike online chatter regarding the facility. this comes after the fbi the department of homeland security warned the spike in threats to federal law enforcement and the days after the mar-a-lago search. republicans continue to defend trump s actions and congressman adam kinzinger called out their loyalty and had this message for trump supporters today. the hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a server are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the