when prosecutor mckinney took a closer look at that loan document steven s father s signature didn t match. classic sign of a con job, said the prosecutor. even the idea that there had been any sort of relationship between morrow and steven williams father is nonsense, right? bogus. couldn t have possibly been. couldn t have possibly been and wasn t corroborated by any evidence whatsoever. reporter: now he was ready for the new trial. he showed the jury, check by check, how harvey drained steven s accounts, all 1.7 million, in just 3 years to dress up a boat that was never going to sail anywhere. the boat wasn t properly outfitted for a trip around the world. in fact, it was outfitted in such a way that suggests that it was just going to be a showpiece. it was going to be part of his con. part of the image that he liked to sell to people. reporter: then the prosecutor took the jury through the gps and cell phone records and
donald doesn t have any blinders about ethics. they don t exist to him. and this is also money grubing. if donald were actually a billionaire, he d invite the g7 leaders to come and stay for free for the three or four days it takes to hold the g7 meeting at doral. he needs the money, because it s all smoke and mirrors. it s a con job. and i m sure we have not seen the full picture yet of what s happening. the story that natasha broke with a colleague is extraordinary in showing the absolute money grubing nature of donald trump and his family and their i m sure a lot more yet to be uncovered. well, politico as you said, david, reported an increasing number of u.s. air force planes have been stopping for layover in scotland, some spent the night at trump s turnberry resort. they adhered to all guidance and procedures. they ve ordered a probe in how they chose overnight
john solomone reporting the case surrounding her illicit server might not be settled. in 2016, james comey and his fbi failed to grant investigators access, we learned, to highly classified information that we now know was critical to there case. they hadn t, he failed to give it to them. in other words, agents were tasked with investigating hillary clinton but they weren t allowed to see key pieces of damning evidence, it appears the rigged investigation was far more rigged than we ever knew. what that means was the so-called probe into clinton was a con job. it s now more obvious that the investigation was rigged from the very beginning. under comey, mccabe, strzok, they were never going to bring any charges against hillary clinton, never. she absolutely got a get out of jail free card and if you don t believe me, if you ever have your emails subpoenaed, you delete them, you acid wash your hard drive and you destroy your
quickly. reporter: his first task to address that alleged loan between harvey and steven s father, the issue that caused the mistrial. he spoke to steven s best friend and heard this i said i know it s a complete fiction. i said, i know it s fraud. reporter: and sure enough, when prosecutor mckinney took a closer look at that loan document steven s father s signature didn t match. classic sign of a con job, said the prosecutor. even the idea that there had been any sort of relationship between morrow and steven williams father is nonsense, right? bogus. couldn t have possibly been. couldn t have possibly been and wasn t corroborated by any evidence whatsoever. reporter: now he was ready for the new trial. he showed the jury, check by check, how harvey drained steven s accounts, all 1.7 million, in just 3 years to dress up a boat that was never going to sail anywhere. the boat wasn t properly outfitted for a trip around the world. in fact, it was outfitted in such
there s a case to be made that literally the most successful con job in history, and i mean all of history, was carried out by the man who got himself elected president even though he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. in her new book, the man who solid america, joy reid took at a liook at the strings pulled together to sell the con. trump seemed to normalize a public display of thuggery and open racism by white americans who felt empowered to assert themselves as the arbiters of cultural legitimacy in his name. donald trump was indeed waging a new american civil war joining me now is joy reid, host of msnbc s a.m. joy. congratulations on the book. you caught the bowie reference. i stopped myself.