Will come to some sort of conclusion, either trial, or a settlement. i m sure the settlement will be large. but i think that that was sort of the factor that was paramount today when he was thinking about how to handle this. suzanne, thank you so much, we appreciate the depth of your reporting and your susanne craig pots for the new york times. now to for the right down with all this mean for trump, legally, let s turn to joyce vance. former united s attorney for the northern district of alabama, co-host of the sisters in law podcast. joyce it was good to see you. thank you for being with, us you heard my competition with suzanne about why donald trump would invoke the fifth amendment in this trial which is largely about his business. but there is something that suzanne was hinting at and that there is a lot donald trump can say because he s a big talker that could be held against him. and he may be worry about other cases in addition to this particular one which he was deposed.
Mar-a-lago was seen as another weaponization on political opponents and regimes while people like hunter biden get treated with kid gloves. the regimes pedal of political opponents. the republicans rush to defend trump s decrying trumps treatment and ignoring any potential criminality while simultaneously vowing to go after the biden family if they win the house. and those calls for explanations and revenge are echoed by russian media. as for what we know about the fbi raid itself, jake brat chief of the counter intelligence at the justice department visited mar-a-lago with a group of federal investigators. we spoke about this yesterday. according to the reporting from the new york times that was later matched by other news outlets, quote, after mr. brat and other officials visited mar-a-lago, they subpoenaed the trump organization for a copy of mar-a-lago s surveillance tapes. the company complied turning the tapes over the government.
And heartbreaking reporting. thank you for all the work. that s all i have this time all in this wednesday night. msnbc prime starts right now with ali. i. ali lisa good to see you, again you have yourself a fact sense of giving, we ll see you tomorrow. and thank you for. joining this hour, we got a big show for you tonight as we continue to learn new information about the fbi s search of donald trump, florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might not talk to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let s go back in time a little. to do thousand and five. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o brien, the guy on the left, the side to side digging into th
Technicality that donald trump should not have government property at his home? well there are a number of things that we know the true reporting, that boxes were sent back many months ago from mar-a-lago to the national archives. the national archives reviewed and were horrified to review that it contained classified information. they made a referral to the department of justice about that very issue. that is likely what triggered alarm bells in the security devision at the justice department involved at the first place. the transformed something from the failure to return presidential records act into an investigation into the exposure of classified information. there s nothing that concerns the fbi and the department of justice more than the notion that there is classified information out there in the wild in a place that s not authorized to be, where multiple people may have access to it, including possible foreign nationals.
Is where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day. attorney: when you publicly state a net worth number, what do you base that number on? trump: i would say it s my general attitude at the time that the question may be asked. and as i say, it varies. after trump gave his, my networth is actually just vibes, testimony. the judge surprisingly throughout the defamation case. turns out the law didn t care about trump s feelings. years later, trump ended up back in court, this time as the defendant. he was being sued by former students from his sham business school, trump university, trump had claimed to have only hired the best of the best instructors for his fake school, instructors who were handpicked by donald trump himself. but once under oath, trump again found himself having to answer for his own boastful lies, this time about his great memory. do you recall saying you