potentially reveal more to us about what the components were of the plot and who was trying to getlo away with what, but ist conceivable to you as an experts in this field that they could recommend practical changes that the congress itself could fix ahead of the 2024 election, to alleviate some of the concerns that you re just describing? absolutely. let s take the national emergencies act which allows the president to declare a national emergency pretty much within his discretion just by signing an executive order and then that declaration unlocks enhanced powers that are continuing more than 120 different laws, some of those powers are what keep me awake at night, including laws that would alout presidentaw to take over or shut down putting a case in facility, and laws that would alout president to freeze american assets and prevent anyone from f doing any kind of financial transactions with them, and laws that even allow the president to suspend the prohibition on government test
might die. did somebody throw a pineapple at this man as a baby? does that explain everything since? in addition to the fruit pocalypse theory here, the newly-released deposition does alsone have one potentially ver salient exchange not about fruit about the ally criminalte case that the former president s business, the trump organization, is facing as soon as this summer, possibly this fall,n when it goes to trial. you will recall that the trump organization s long-time cfo and theor company itself have been criminally charged for an alleged pattern of tax fraud which among other things they are accused ofgeof compensating bunch of different employees at the trump organization effectively off the bookses as wayef of evading taxes. one of the employees about whom those concerns have been raised is somebody who hasn t been
president s company and its cfo, that trial is expected to go, that trial is expected in court later this i year, at the end o the summer, beginning of the fall. now, we don t know if any additional charges will be brought in that case at all, particularly with the release af this deposition in which trump claimsio full personal responsibility formp the compensationon arrangement of another employee who appears to have been paid in a similar manner to the man who is here in handcuffs. we have suspected over the last few days and today it was reported by cnn that the special grand jurywa convened in new yo to hear evidence in that criminal case isin expiring. its term is up as of this weekend andit the new york district attorney s office, it s possible they may just go through with the trump organization criminal trial later this year, and they may not bring any additional charges. if they dot want to bring additional chcharges, they coul use another grand jury to hear more evidence and
against his company. beyond that, criminal case, involving trump s company in new york,lv the civil case in new yk brought by the new yorkyo attory general.ne she s investigating the former president s business and its financial practices. that one is hitting deadlines soonti as well. we heard from court testimony from a lawyer in, the new york attorney general s office this week, that if there is going to be action taken concerning trump and his business, that there s going to be action taken by the new york attorney general, we believe that will b be soon, que soon. today, the judge in that case, ruled that the appraisers trump usedru for many of his business dealings, according to the judge, they had odd inconsistents in many of their related pronouncements to trump. in ruling that way, in ruling that there were odd inconsistencies that didn t appear to be explicable at least on paper the judge today effectively cleared the attorney
charged but unfortunately for our sort of story telling purposes, i have to warn you, this is a guy who happens to have another food-related name. i m sorry, he s also, it really didn t go together, his name, in case you have forgotten is mr. matthew calamari, if you need a little aid here, it is okay to think of him as mr. squeeze, his name is matthew calamari and the same transcript, the other part of the same transcript, in which talking aboutnger the lethal threat of tomatoes, in this case, he s talking about mr. squibs, he s talking about how proud he is, effectively that be in else had anything to do with mr. calamari s compensation, that it was trump himself personally who decided thathi alone, with nobody else involved. question, do any other employees ofin the trump organization hav authority with respect to mr.