the welcoming majority of u.n. member states are committed to working together on these issues and our actions show that. yet, while more than 100 countries have signed on to a road map to provide food aid to those who need it, and partners across, africa, asia and the europe are working together for the global food systems and russia for months blocked the export of ukraine grain to the world. and russia continues to bomb and seize ukraine farms and silos and lead its wheat fields with land mines and raising cost of food for people everywhere. and while governments around the world are teaming up with international organizations, with the private sector, with philanthropies to end this pandemic and make sure that we re better prepared for the next one, russia is spreading misinformation and disinformation about w.h.o. approved vaccines and fuelling vaccine hesitancy to puts people in all of our countries at greater risk. here is the reality. none of us chose this war. not th
and the two major league sluggers chasing home run history. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening former president donald trump s legal troubles deepening tonight, putting his business empire in jeopardy new york s democratic attorney general naming mr. trump and his three oldest children in a sweeping civil lawsuit, accusing them of 200 instances of fraud for allegedly manipulating the value of assets like the president s mar-a-lago and trump tower residences, aimed at securing favorable bank loans and reducing taxes, and inflating mr. trump s net worth by billions. new york attorney general letitia james seeking to prevent the trump family from serving as officers in any new york business. while it is not a criminal case, new york officials are turning some of their findings over to federal prosecutors regarding possible criminal acts they uncovered. tonight, mr. trump denying the accusations, calling it another witch hunt by a racist attorney genera
trump s former lawyer and fixer joins me live onset. there cannot be different rules for different people in this country or this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family and their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit, alleging what was already obvious to anyone who has ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in a more than 200 page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric and ivanka. his companies and some of his top executives of a long-standing, widespread scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how ag james put it in her groundbreaking
el paso s mayor says 2,000 migrants arrive here every day. most of them from venezuela. but some don t stay here for very long, as the city is bussing migrants to other parts of the country. just like the governors of texas, florida and arizona, but here there s coordination with the city of el paso and cities like new york, where many are being sent. yesterday i spoke with several venezuelan mite grans, including one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. that s where i can work and make a life. if god sends me over there, god will open the doors for me and let me work. so i can work and help my mother and bring her. we ll have more on the situation at the border in just a moment. but we begin with a major development in the probe investigating those highly classified documents seized from former president trump s mar-a-lago home. overnight an appeals court lifted a judge s hold that prevented the j
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m