what s going on. prosecutors taking an aggressive approach as they ask a judge to hold trump in contempt over the summer, demanding he return all documents with classified markings. this is a new hoax. the document hoax. the judge refused to hold trump in contempt, but notching a victory as the third party review of documents seized from trump s florida resort comes toen aend. the judge dismissing the case today given doj access to tens of thousands of records and other items from mar-a-lago. investigators also plugging away on their probe on efforts to subvert the 2020 election. they re asking about the former president s involvement loaeadi up to january 6th. including 20 prosecutors on january fth and efforts to overturn the election. we will never give up. we will never concede. it doesn t happen. and prosecutors have been looking at potential financial crimes, digging into trump s
votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. reporter: the request for the grand jury had reasonable probability of criminal disruptions around the 2020 election. listening to that phone call but the benefit of having talked to a lot of witnesses and probably read more on this than most people would like to. reporter: digging into trump s actions as well as those of his allies including former attorney rudy giuliani, former chief of staff mark meadows and south carolina governor lindsey graham, may witness as part of the probe. issuing subpoenas to a lot of people and not all of them are going to welcome our invitation to come speak with us. reporter: hopes to make a charging decision by end of 2022. we sat down with wil lis in an atlanta hotel, security threat at the fulton county courthouse. already on high alert after trump took aim at her and others
colleagues at the washington post about just how serious the ongoing investigations into that potential fraud are. we ve known a state prosecutor in manhattan, the manhattan district attorney, had convened a new grand jury recently to hear evidence about the trump organization, to consider charges along this front. we also knew that new york s attorney general, tish james, has her ongoing civil investigation into matters related to this stuff as well. but today s post reporting adds new details into how they re going about digging into trump s finances. for instance, a.g. tish james has apparently gone after records from trump s california golf club saying this even though that s in california and she s the new york a.g., her office, nevertheless, has jurisdiction because trump was a new york resident at the time he was submitting wildly different valuations for that process. the a.g. s office has also reportedly asked for hundreds of thousands of pages of documents including geolo
property that trump has pulled this kind of a stunt with. this habit of mr. trump and his company was first brought to public attention in congressional testimony from trump lawyer michael cohen, who claimed that trump inflated and deflated these values wildly and, importantly, purposely to deceive banks and insurance companies and tax authorities, which if it was done purposely, intentionally for that purpose, that would be criminal fraud. well, now we have new reporting from david fahrenthold and his colleagues at the washington post about just how serious the ongoing investigations into that potential fraud are. we ve known a state prosecutor in manhattan, the manhattan district attorney, had convened a new grand jury recently to hear evidence about the trump organization, to consider charges along this front. we also knew that new york s attorney general, tish james, has her ongoing civil investigation into matters related to this stuff as well. but today s post reporting adds
democrats say all this refutes steve mnuchin who called their demand for trump s taxes an unprecedented request and who said he has never even heard of such a request. we will follow the law. thank you. i would expect that we would. i m not aware there has ever been a request for an elected official s tax return, but we will follow the law. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston who has been digging into trump s finances for years. his book about the trump white house is called it is even worse than it looks. thank you so much for joining us on this. how relevant is this nixon era precedent to getting trump s taxes? well, it s totally relevant, yazmin. in the year since 1924, there is not a single known case of the irs not turning over a tax return on request. in fact, congress has at least three employees who work out of the irs just to examine tax