house, that deposition came in a case brought by protesters who said theyca were assaulted by trump s security atau a 2015 campaign rally, in that deposition, trump tried to justify telling his supporters to quote knock the crap out of protesters because of dangerous fruit. quote, they wereou going to thr fruit. we werere threatened. we had a threat. it s very dangerous stuff. you can get killed by those things. i wanted to have people be ready, because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. and some fruit is a lot worse than tomatoes are bad by the way. but it s very dangerous. theyy. were going to hit, they were going to hit very hard. so dangerous. this is how it s gone in the past. every time donald trump had to testify under oath, and now today, donald trump once again found himself giving sworn testimony. this time, it was in the new york attorney general s
0 hi ali. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former president s orbit might have talked to the fbi and what it could mean for the we ll have more on that later but let s go back in time a little. to 2005. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started flirting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy with a funny hair-do and a reality tv show, that year, the intrepid journalist tim o brien the guy on the left, decided to start digging into the so-called trump empire. what he found then probably wouldn t shock anyone today, but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much-lauded business success was actually far less impressive than trump had led anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollars. that he wasn t remotely close to being a billionaire and so in 2005, tim o brien wrote a
out. thank you so much for your expertise as always, shan wu, former federal prosecutor. thank you. good to see you. so, we move from a legal battle in washington to another in new york as the former president was questioned under oath for 4 1/2 hours on monday. he sat for a deposition in a lawsuit filed by human rights protesters who say they were assaulted by trump security detail during a demonstration. you can see there outside trump tower back in 2015. trump calls the claims baseless. we get more on all of this from cnn s kara scannell. reporter: former president donald trump answered questions under oath for four hours on monday. the videotaped deposition was several years in the making. and part of of a lawsuit brought by men alleging they were assaulted by trump s then head of security during a demonstration outside of trump tower in 2018. here s how he described the deposition. i can say he answered the questions. whether or not it was satisfactory we ll leave up to a
while at the same time we re bareboned with a defunding effort reporter: delta airlines not enforcing a mandate either instead, charging employees who don t get vaccinated $200 a month. so far the company reporting 90% compliance but the struggle to vaccinate the country continues, even though resistance can come at a cost here in chicago there is another option for officers who don t want to get vaccinated the mayor is allowing them to get biweekly covid tests through december 31st, but it is at the officer s expense. lester megan fitzgerald, thank you. former president trump appeared in a videotaped deposition today answering questions under oath in a lawsuit brought by protesters who claim they were assaulted by trump s security guards in 2015 the demonstrators at trump tower were protesting his comments on immigration. a key question: did those comments encourage violence separately mr. trump filed a lawsuit against the january
city today. the case was brought by a group of demonstrators who claimed then candidate trump s head of security roughed them up outside the trump tower back in 2015. a live report from outside trump tower with more in new york city. reporter: well, john, we re about two and a half hours into this deposition that was scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m., and this all stems from this 2015 lawsuit that you mentioned where protesters were demonstrating just outside trump tower, and according to the lawsuit they allege that they were assaulted by trump s then head of security saying he punched one of the men in the head, so the judge overseeing this case initially said that trump needed to sit for this video deposition in 2019 saying his testimony was indispensable to the lawsuit, but that was postponed because trump was still in office. now he s not and the judge said today is the day that trump comes in and has to sit for this deposition. trump has previously said that