negotiations to plead guilty to perjury for allegedly lying on the stand during trump s civil fraud trial. and while we don t know for certain which lie mr. weisselberg may be owning up to, the testimony the new york times points to, the thing they heavily suggest may be the lie in this case is maybe the most trumpy thing ever. just a few mounts ago back in october allen weisselberg took the stand to defend in new york attorney general letitia james $240 million lawsuit. that s where trump and other defendants are being accused of inflating assets. one of the things mr. weisselberg was asked about under oath was the size of donald trump s penthouse apartment in trump tower, the one that looks like louie xivth on acid. the a.g. believes this asset in particular is a glaering example of donald trump s fraudulent overevaluation. yes, there are monster chandeliers and marble walls, but for years this three-story penthouse was listed on annual financial statements as being 30,00
it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
other grand jury material. but what is now public tells a damning story about the former twice impeached president who, by the way, is the one who originally called for the affidavit to be released. trying to play chicken with the doj before they called his bluff. now, first in the government s 13-page memo explaining the rationale for the redactions they said parts must remain sealed to, quote, protect the safety and privacy for a significant number of witnesses in addition to law enforcement. in other words, the fbi s probable cause was not based on a single informant but a number of different witnesses likely having to be people inside the trump s orbit and i m sure that fact is not sitting well with donald tonight. and the affidavit explains why many of them might have cooperated. it describes in specific detail the nature of some of the documents that were just laying around trump s golf resort. in 15 boxes of documents returned to the national archives in january the fb
bar i would like to get out over that bar. just a sign of the time, my friend. thank you as always. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. we begin tonight with breaking news. the new york times has just published a major new report about israeli intelligence failures in the lead-up to the october 7th hamas attack. according to the reporting not yet verified by nbc news officials obtained the detailed battle plan for hamas attack more than a year before the attack took place. quoting from the new york times israeli officials obtained the battle plans for the october 7th terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents and e-mails and interviews show. but israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for hamas to carry out. the approximately 40-page document which the israeli authorities code named jericho wall outlined point by point the devastation that led to the deaths of abou
rich price, thank you very much. that is all in on this tuesday night. as a fellow brown graduate, i feel the same way. you know, unfortunately so much death and destruction becomes abstract. and when there s some sort of foothold you have into your own reality i think it makes it at once difficult and easier to be involved in the story. so i m with you on that my friend. thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. approximately 140 police officers were injured on january 6th when a violent mob stormed the capitol. one of those officers was james, a 17-year veteran of the capitol police. this is how he described that day to pbs news outlet. we just hear just noise and people running at me as far as i can see from the crypt all the way to the north side of the capitol is running at us. as bad as it looks on film, believe me it was much worse. they can stitch together as much footage as they want to, but i can tell you and anybody who was in that scrum will tell