remember this video? security guards at a trump tower and altercation with a group of demonstrators protesting donald trump s rhetoric about mexican immigrants as he began the came pain for president? the protesters sued trump and the company and the campaign and security guards saying that the head of security bashed one of the protesters in the head and disrupted their peaceful and lawful assembly. the case was in the middle of jury selection today when a lawyer for the group of protesters says donald trump reached a settlement with his clients. the matter was resolved on terms that they are very, very happy with. he said. the image is worth noting that considering in 2016 then candidate trump bragged in a primary debate he doesn t settle. referring to a class action lawsuit over trump university, trump said i don t do it because that s why i don t get sued very often because i don t
he, up until the time he was [inaudible] you still saw, in every check, he is so intertwined testifying against donald trump. we are not really going to know how that goes until october, if it does go to trial, and it doesn t settle. i imagine what it is going to go is, yeah, donald trump was all for these perks. and said, take a car, and you can have one for your wife. these are some of the things that allen weisselberg is accused and pleaded in court today of dealing. but did donald trump, no is the question. maybe donald trump said do this, and assumed that the taxes were going to be paid on them. because all of these things are fine to get four employees. but the problem is, whether or not reported to the irs as compensations. so, i think if i am imagining
susanne craig, thank you for joining me. thank you. let s first start with the sort of thing everybody is trying to post today, is how meaningful is the difference between testifying against the trump organization and testifying against trump. it seems to be meaningful enough because the whole thing in allen weisselberg s deal. it is pretty meaningful. the thing is how you can do that and not testify against trump. donald trump i ve covered him for a number of years, his finances and up until the time with lawyers, he is still signing every check. he is still intertwined, and testifying against the trump organization, how can it not be testifying against donald trump. we won t know how that goes in the october fer it does go to trial and if it doesn t settle, i will imagine that donald trump was all for these perks and said take the car and you can have one for your wife, these are some of the things that allen weisselberg was accused, he didn t quite say in court, about doing, a
want to talk to you today. susanne craig, thank you for joining me. thank you. let s just first out with a sort of thing everything is trying to parse today. how meaningful is the difference between testifying against the trump organization and against testifying against trump? it s meaningful, but people are saying, how can he do that and not testify against trump? donald trump i ve covered him for a number of years, his finances. he, up until the time he was [inaudible] you still saw, in every check, he is so entertaining testifying against donald trump. we are not really going to know how that goes until october, if it does go to trial, and it doesn t settle. i imagine what it is going to go is, yeah, donald trump was all for these perks. and said, take a car, and you can have one for your wife. these are some of the things that allen weisselberg is accused and pleaded in court today of dealing.
york times, with opinion. but i would just go back to this. i go back to his other entanglements that he has had with the new york attorney general. this is a civil case. and he has had two other cases. donald trump often says he doesn t settle. and he does. he has done it twice with the new york attorney general. i think that was part of the calculation this week. i think he was concerned if he gave a deposition that it could be used against him. and that federal case we just talked about, and also potentially reigniting an inquiry that was going on into trump themself, criminally. but i think also, he is just saying, i ve got a lot on the go right now. this case could potentially settle. and i will take the fifth. optically, it looks really horrible, politically. susanne craig, my colleague at the new york times, thank you so much. after the break, the consequences of republican abortion bans may be more wide ranging then you imagine. people remember ads with young people having a