investigation, they could not come up with anyone who said, i heard paul moore say he wanted to hurt roberto. no, but they did find this document on paul s computer, titled, my life. a rambling self pitying skraed. i think my dad thinks i m stupid, he s always saying how smart robert is. ultimately, the trial came down to a single sheet of blank paper. almost like a rorschach test for the jury. what would they see? paul moore s guilt or a plot to frame him? coming up, a verdict that will divide this tight knit town and rip apart this family all over again. we just started crying. when dateline continues. and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill.
actually have access to the numbers. this is now the family business. he talked about that red line, michael. well, he talked about the red line and presented the piles of manila folders we suspected were full of blank paper. he s operated as a family business whether these years to avoid scrutiny. i think he wanted to give this whole enterprise off to his children and his children spoke to me about how they would run it as a normal business and not be so flagrant in their publicity seeking. they may not get a chance. you said the courtroom drama brought all the president s if political problems together in a
shift profit around, and now for the first time, it s all potentially going to be opened up for examination. this is why he didn t release his tax returns. he never wanted people to actually have access to the numbers and we may soon get access to the numbers. interesting. so how will the president react? i mean, this is now the family business. remember, he talked about that red line, michael. well, he talked about the red line. he also presented those piles of manila folders that we all suspected were full of blank paper. and this is really his nightmare. you know, here s operated as a family business for all these years to avoid scrutiny. i think he wanted to give this whole enterprise off to his children and his children spoke to me about how they would run it as a normal business, and not be so flagrant in their
the republican congress has no appetite for scrutinizing how he makes money or holding him to account. but voters will have a chance to speak on this in the midterm elections this fall. this is part of a constellation of issues that may give concern to democrats and people opposed to president trump. one thing we saw from a poll that just came out yesterday was that democrats are disproportionately motivated in these elections. and i think the check is going to be political rather than legal. and in your piece, you make reference to that january 2017 press conference president trump gave, when he said he had no conflicts of interests and he displayed a lot of files filled with blank paper. he had an attorney come out, but i don t think we ve seen subsequent attention by the trump white house trying to step
i think our brand is the hottest it s ever been. cnbc editor at large john harwood joins me now. john, in your piece you hearken back to that january 2017 weird press conference, one of them that were going to be very weird, the president talked about that one there we re showing on the screen, there were a bunch of files, we didn t know what were in the files. he tried to hood wink everybody into thinking giving his kids control of the company was akin to a blind trust. it s not. he said what sean spicer later said, the president can t have any conflicts. the world s view of conflicts is different than the trump white house s view of conflicts. well, no question about it. i believe, ali, those those folders were filled with blank paper. i don t think there was real paper in them. he had an attorney come out and say he had placed some distance between himself and the businesses, but it was all an