we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
assassination attempt. another hour of velshi begins right now. ght now. good morning, saturday august 20th. not am in the 6 am in the west, i m ali bell. she hardly a day passes without a development in the investigation that is somewhat connected to donald. trump that is because there are no fewer than four current and ongoing criminal investigations. related to the president himself, relative to have ever set of inquiries across multiple states. it all culminated in an fbi search of his private awaits us in palm beach florida. let s go to, new york where trump spent the vast majority of his life and career before he became president. he is facing a pair of inquiries into his company s business practices. when is a civil case which is headed by the new york, state attorney general letitia james. he was looking into whether the trump organization lied about the value of its assets, either to receive loans from the bank or to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. trump appear
closest advisers. secret service was omnipresent, full stop. those text were and by the agents but a city in the rooms where it happened could be the key to the investigation, as testimony, of course, presents themselves as well. giving evidence about the coronation of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, but who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the room as things were happening, and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside the white house over those nearly 187 minutes, well over three hours, filling in the gaps, gap soon when donald trump told supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. we know that is the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing. we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then president trump during those three hours. he knows them quite well. trump s
consortium of news organizations. ukraine s president zelenskyy is on the verge of disaster with ukrainian and russian forces saying the other is about to stage a nuclear incident at zaporizhzhia with russia telling its operators today not to report to work. and we ll look at the surprising senate race in pennsylvania. one of a handful of match-ups, key match-ups where democrat candidates are beating expectations in recent polls and republican leaders suggesting it s donald trump s fault for backing unqualified contenders. i think there s there s probably a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. the senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. we begin with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and david loftman, chief of counterintelligence at the justice department s national security department. many legal experts were quite surprised by the judge s ruling and that tru
request to represent trump. that should be interesting. we have a report on how top republican ron desantis lost a free speech case. by the end of the hour, the beat will go full happy days. henry winkler, our special guest tonight on fallback friday. our top story is the escalation in the probe in georgia where rudy giuliani is being questioned. a judge is telling graham comply. ordering testimony, which the d.a. says will be crucial because of what graham knows. he will not be allowed to delay the revelation of relevant witnesses. georgia is something of an epicenter of more than one of the plots we have been covering for you that you see here. on the left you have some of the plots technically legal like filing lawsuits or the beginning of the electors scandal which turned into something that might be illegal. georgia has several of those red arrows, overthrowing votes, trying to install fraudulent electors. it s eyeing witnesses, lawyers who might not be as well-known