consideration was given in 2021 to charging trump with money laundering in conjunction with his hush money payments to a porn star in 2016. he tells us that serious consideration was given in 2021h to charging trump with enterprise corruption, meaning they considered a state rico indictment against him as if he were a mob boss. and mr. pomerantz tells us that in conjunction with the d.a. telling prosecutors in his office that they could go ahead with their plans to charge trump, mark pomerantz says they did, in fact, draw up draft charging languages excuse me, draft charging language for an potential charges against trump. so that s all new. we didn t know any of that. and, again, there is wild free-flowing lawyer rage, rage in lawyer circles about mark pomerantz having let us know rc that information at all. but, of course, i m greedy.ti it just all makes me want to know more.l here is mark pomerantz. veteran new york lawyer, former federal prosecutor, formerly a o
one of the ongoing investigations into former president trump that he s facing. this morning, we re learning that the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg has started, that s according to the new york times. trump s former attorney, michael cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges related to those payments that cohen had facilitated when he was working for then candidate trump. this signals that the district attorney is nearing a decision potentially about whether or not to charge trump. a conviction is not a sure thing. the case would mainly hinge on showing trump and his company falsified records which could be a low level felony charge. it does add to trump s mounting legal woes. this is what bragg told on. is that correct that you re looking to jump start the
you keep thinking, this is maddening, they re going to bring a case, they pull it back, they re going to charge trump. they just charged the trump organization. one thing i felt today when i read the story potentially there could be some movement somewhere with a witness with evidence. not just talking about allen, they may have compiled other evidence that has given them more confidence that they bring a case, that was one thing i was thinking in terms of do they have additional documents? do they know more about that payment? we didn t see the payment in his tax returns. we had visibility that we could have. there s no direct line saying, payment to stormy daniels or to the company that was involved. was it buried in legal fees? they found something about that. they now have more evidence that
house. this as the georgia da investigating trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election says a decision on charges is imminent. tonight, we ll speak to a former georgia official who testified in the case and says there is enough evidence to charge trump. new video into our show, george santos making new questionable claims including being the victim of a violent mugging. and that he s giving his salary to charity. let s go outfront. good evening. america upping the anti-sending tanks to the ukraine. the united states is finalizing plans to send a significant number of tanks to the m-1 abrams tanks to kyiv. the abrams is the main tank that the united states uses on the battlefield. this could be a game changer in the war. and i want to emphasize this is extremely significant not just for the military importance but
investigate joe biden s retention of classified documents? as we have looked at the question of criminality, i have understood that criminality on someone like a former president is like really, really high. even higher than i thought. and one of the parts of the questions of criminality is, if you take that extraordinary move to charge trump, let s see if he was running, would you be able to not only explain it to a jury, but would you be able to explain it to the public? with anderson where you are going to such great lengths to charge him, to use some of sacred power of the federal government on americans to charge them? i think that argument becomes more difficult, when you have the biden documents. i just think that for the justice department of joe biden, who would be running for president, potentially against donald trump, i think it makes it more difficult. now look, the justice