secrets, although we do not know when judge cannon will ultimately decide to commence that trial. in the new year there s another trial expected on whether trump defamed writer e. jean carroll set to begin the very same day of the iowa caucuses. later that month, at lawsuit accusing trump and his company and his kids of a pyramid scheme will start. a little over a month after that, super tuesday, more than a dozen states will hold their primaries, followed three weeks later by the start of the trial in trump s hush money payments to a porn star. in july, the republican national convention for the 2024 president race, all leading up to election day in america in november. investigation overseen fulton county district attorney and any trial that will follow from that. so many crimes, so little time is where we start the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. washington post national investigations reporter carol
so they always create a little wiggle room for themselves all so that joe biden could have a talking point on debate stage to say, see, all these 51 people said it s russian disinformation. it s all fake. rachel: all to the, essentially, interfere with u.s. elections which is, of course, so ironic because they were saying that the russians were interfering in the last election. here are ex-cia and intelligence community were coordinating pete: they are the russian misinformants. they re telling us to look out for and it for it and they know it isn t and they re blaming it on that, they re doing moscow s work while accusing trump. it s unbelievable, the cynicism. rachel: and it has such long-term, you know, implications. because then you have, you re maligning the russians, accusing them of things that they didn t do, and then the russians are now aligning themselves with the9 chinese which also hurts us. i mean, this has, you know,
second time in the new yor state attorney general sweeping civil fraud lawsuit in september, new york a.g laetitia james filed a massive 250 million dollar civil fraud lawsuit, accusing trump, his adult children, and hi organization of staggering fraud, for over valuing th assets by billions trump, before that depositio he made sure this morning to call a.g. james a racist because that appears to be his main line of defense here. and since he arrived at th a.g. s office, he was greete with chance of, new york hates you. and then he spent nearly the entire day behind closed doors staying inside for roughly eight hours. that is nearly double th amount of time spent there during his first depositio back in august a spokesperson for the new yor a.g. s office said trump spoke a lot, which was quite different from the last time h was deposed. just two days after the fb searched trump s florida hom for classified documents, trum
them down? that is something trump does rather well. on the regular, that was his playbook before all of this happened. absolutely. with james, not only the have to drop his lawsuit against her, but she actually filed a civil lawsuit against him, accusing trump and his family members of financial fraud. she referred them to federal prosecutors and the irs for criminal investigation. what is the status of that case? so separately, what a lot of people don t realize, the attorney general is a law enforcement agency but they also do a lot of consumer protection. so in a sense, the attorney general is acting as a plaintiff. not really as a arresting law enforcement agency. even though they do that to. so what laetitia james it is conduct essentially a civil investigation through her lawsuit, and then refer it to doj. and doj, by the way, has been getting a lot of referrals lately if you haven t noticed. january six committee, they are getting a lot of people telling them how to do