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
the repayment to cohen was disguised as the payment for legal services rendered on a monthly basis pursuant to a retainer agreement. except there was no retainer agreement and no services rendered andd was just being repaid for the money paid on donald trump s behalf to stormy daniels, and some other money as well. so in order to disguise the manner, the mechanism for the repayment, false business records were created and that was the crime that we were looking at. now, in technical terps you described there s a problem with that because unless those false business records were created to conceal another crime, that would justan be a misdemeanor, sort of wouldn t be worth bringing against trump. in order for it to be a felony there had to be some effort to conceal some other crime. is that right? did i understand that correctly? it certainly you need the
to approach this case and what charges he wanted to bring so there is an argument against him on the substance but also just this utfree-floating lawyer fur out there f over his decision t publish anything about the case at all. and i can tell you that is gladitorial combat that i am interested in watching but not interested in joining that. i m not oneed of those gladiato. i m not even a lawyer. what i m interested in, we the public and wed the press for better or worse, we do now get the benefit of what mark pomerantz can describe to us as the strength of the evidence against trump, its potential weaknesses, potential charges against trump and the wherewithal of the prosecutors who in new york at least appear to have trump in their sights. from mr. pomerantz s book, for example, we learn that there were at least nine he lists nine different areas of criminal
been sworn in february 21, left in february 22. by the time he left, there had been no criminal charges brought against donald trump by that office. and mr. pomerantz once again made national headline news when he quit because he quit in loud protest of the fact that trump had not yet been charged. his resignation letter appeared in the new york times. in it he said he and his investigative team determined there was no doubt that trump was guilty of numerous felony violations. he described it as a grave failure of justice. that there hadn t been charged levied against trump and he left. like i said, the man is a bit of a backfiring motorcycle. whether he intends it or not loudt noises follow him closel wherever he goes. but now to carry the metaphor forward it is starting to feel like the full on fourth of july because now mr. pomerantz is out
inquiry intocr trump by the d.as office when mr. pomerantz came on board in late 2020, nine. he tells us that serious consideration was u given in 20 to charging trump with money laundering in m conjunction wit his hush money payments to a porn star in 2016. he tells us that serious consideration was given in 2021 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 theirld plans to charge trump, mark pomerantz says they did, in k fact, draw up draft charging languages excuse me, draft charging language for 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