Joining us. Seeing a news night with abby. Phillip starts now how monopoly explains Donald Trumps legal and financial peril thats tonight on news nine good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, Reality Crashes into how donald trump views his lifes work and the way that the world works. Donald trumps lawyers are admitting that their client cant make bond at a selfprofessed billionaire is not liquid enough to cover a 500 million penalty, is probably surprising to a huge number of his voters but trump has long treated new york real estate, his empire like a game of monopoly. Hes long acted like real money, real dollars are well, monopoly money in trumps world, he lives on boardwalk and park place. He buys and buys, and buys and borrows and borrows more and hopes that the game goes on just long enough that he makes back some of that money but right now, Letitia James is quite literally trying to collect to make trump pay what he owes for perpetrating a decadeslong fraud on the
A huge announcement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, Special Counsel is now investigating hunter biden, the president s son, after a potential plea deal collapsed. Plus, 59 people are now confirmed dead in the hawaii wildfires. It comes as residents start to return to lahaina to see the rubble where they used to live. One of them is my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, major developments on multiple legal fronts for both donald trump and joe biden. Trumps attorneys coming face to face with judge Tanya Chutkan for the first time today as the Attorney General spoke publicly, something he rarely does. Merrick garland announcing he is authorizing a Special Counsel to investigate bidens son hunter. And all of this comes as witnesses subpoenaed in the fulton county, georgia, investigation, can be told any minute they need to testify monday in front of a grand jury. Thats when the grand jury meets again and could indict if trump is indicte
Election. Though the dispute is technically over the handling of evidence, its become a proxy war of the expresident s mob boss tactics. Its a little complicated, but incredibly important. Here is where things stand right now. Federal judge chutkan was ordered a hearing over the Justice Departments request for a protective order. The rules governing the process between prosecutors and the defense team. The Washington Post notes such orders can be technical but are routinely approved by judges to protect witnesses and government investigative methods and priorities by limiting evidence by the defense to people authorized by the court. In its argument for a protective order, the Justice Department made a nod to the fact that the defendant has prosecutors explained they wanted to immediately turn over evidence to speed Defense Trial Preparations but were concerned in part over trumps history of posting on social Media Associated with cases against him. Trumps defense team complained the g
To amplify his state of the Union Message and battlegrounds across the country. Were going to have new reporting on his campaign plans, plus Breaking News this morning, donald trump just posted a nearly 92,000,000 bond and the E Jean Carroll defamation where do you come up with the cash and does he have enough left to pay that 454 million judgment in the new york fraud case and tick tock tiktok users are outraged and with the help of a lobbying campaign bombarding lawmakers with calls after the house advanced a bill that could ban tiktok across the country well tell you whats at stake for the Social Media Platform and the roughly 170 million americans who use it. Im dana bash, lets go behind the headlines and inside Inside Politics first ill have what hes having. Thats the feeling among democrats today after joe bidens fiery and energetic performance, Campaign Kicks goff in the form of a state of the Union Address. The president tackled concerns about his age headon, but his focus whil
Its very significant. The weight of resources are no longer in your favor, i dont care how much money you necessarily have. What theyre doing now is likely expected a not guilty plea where he will formally tell the court he has notice of all the charges against him, and they will set some date in the future in terms of when he will have to either have discovery provided to him, there likely is not going to be a Motion Schedule for the things that you would argue about what would come into evidence, thats going to be longer down the road. But the notion of a rap sheet is so significant with these different indictments, particularly because of this reason normally if somebody has charges against them, trials in the same vicinity, youre talking about maybe if they are convicted theyre going to run concurrent sentences, meaning this one will run on top of the other and the other. Its not going to be youll serve five years for this one, then ten years for another, five for the next. It will