from an absolutely huge earthquake and almost equally large aftershock that hit today. the initial quake was centered in south central turkey. that initial jolt hit between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning so people were home in their beds that initial quake was 7.8 and it was followed hours later by an aftershock that was 7.5 now, having such a huge quake like that followed in such quick succession but almost equally large quake, anything significantly damaged but still standing after the first shock, it came down in the aftershock in turkey alone they re saying ther more than 5,000 buildings that collapsed across across the southern border into northern rdsyria, there are aga thousands of, buildings collapd there as well between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyou approachin 4,000 people killed with many, many, many more thousands of peoplend injured. tonight, of course, is the twin horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under coll
magnitude, which is just enormous, and it wasst followed hours later by an after shock that was 7.5. now, having such a huge quake like thatno followed in such quk secession by such an almost equally large quake which means anything significant damagely after the first shock, it came down in the after shock. in turkey alone they re saying there are more than 5,000 buildingsha collapsed across 14 different turkish cities. across the southern border of turkey into northern syria, thousands of n buildings collapsed there again as well. between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyt approaching 4,000 peoe killed with many, many more thousands people, injured. tonight, of course, is the horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under collapsed buildings while also fully expecting that more damaged buildingse will contin to collapse while rescue efforts are under c way. both the survivors and rescuers are in grave peril now, and it is cold to
They will have the credibility issues, but they are going line by line and attack whatever they have with the particular facts. Crossexamination could start today. Any moment. Thank you all for being with us here in the studio. Thank you at home for joining us the last couple of hours. Thats our turn to turn it around to our colleagues. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell, Chris Jansing and katy tur pick up special coverage next. He approved it. Thats the potentially damning testimony of Donald Trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell reporting from washington. Im joined by my colleagues katy tur and Chris Jansing in new york. Right now, Michael Cohen is stitching together the details which back up the states felony charges that trump falsified Business Records to cover up the 2016 hush money scheme, or at least thats what prosecutors hope. Cohen testified that Retainer Invoices were faked and legally should have been called reimbursements.
we were looking at instance after instance of suspected illegal conduct. of course, they had to be provable, but if they were proved their collective weight left no doubt in my mind that trump deserved to be prosecuted. measures short of criminal prosecution had been used against trump, and he had dismissed them as trivial. looking at the totality of trump s conduct over the years i thought it was crystal clear that measures short of criminal prosecution meant nothing to him and would not deter him in the slightest from engaging in other anti-social behavior. indeed, the more successful he became, the more brazen was his behavior, he d stiffed many contractors and small business owners who decided to advance services or products to the trump organization because, after all, donald trump was so wealthy. michael cohen had told us that a big part of his job was telling small credit tors who did business with trump that they weren t going to get paid and forcing them to accept whatever mod
wealthy. michael cohen had told us that a big part of his job was telling small credit tors who did business with trump that they weren t going to get paid and forcing them to accept whatever modest sups trump would give them. the enterprise corruption statute targeted just this kind of behavior using a pattern of criminal activity to increase an entity s economic power enabling it to inflict greater social harm. mr. pomerantz, you describe that consideration of using state rico charges essentially against trump but then you say, quote, the task of building out the proof on the whole pattern of enterprise corruption was simply too ambitious for the human and investigative bandwidth we had. in other words, you think you have the substance of a case there but it was basically too hard to do given the resources of the d.a. s office, is that fair? it is fair. one of the things that people need to remember is that the district attorney for new york county is a local prosecutor s office. t