justice department to continue looking with those documents, upending a trial a trial judges, i should say, ordered, three of you be blocked, walk the review. and first on cnn, the sources that ginni thomas a conservative activist agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget, that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging that their whole business is, essentially, a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump junior, knowingly participated in the schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s a bi
why do the doj have a winning argument? well it came down to who has the greater interest, on one hand doj has a really strong interest in getting access to these documents right away, because they need to resume their criminal investigation, and the federal government in general needs to look at these documents and decide if people are in danger, spies, intelligence assets, that type of thing. on the flipside, the court says donald trump has no possesses or interest in these records. what this means though, that these classified records are now doj right, now the alternative would have been the have to run through the special master first. if they were privileged, they would end up right back in doj hands anyways. so doj now has the more quickly. hold on to, this don t let me grab. i thought what you are, saying don t, mcgraw i thought this was going to be happening with those documents. that everyone was going to have a chance to look at them, right, which was obvio
ever. you think so? he got a body blow on the criminal side tonight with the 11th circuit allowing doj lifting this day doj can now proceed in using these classified documents, don, to investigate him, probably his most serious criminal exposure and even worse for donald trump, what does he care about above all? his name, his businesses, his family, his work, and this case, we talked about it last week, the corporate death penalty. this case is that new york attorney general letitia james is the equivalent all right, got, it you re getting ahead of all of this. here s my question,, elie doj is winning this appeal in the 11th circuit and the republicans have a strong interest, and i quote, here in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in exceptionally grave damage to national security.
as officers or directors of their companies. this is in essence, if she succeeds the trial, and elie is constantly reminded me that there is a big difference between allegations and a complaint and winning a trial, we both had that experience. you sound like a lawyer, elie. before you weigh in, i want to play this interview donald trump defending himself with an argument that he puts a caveat in whatever it is about the values here it is. we have a disclaimer right on the front, and it basically says, get your own people, be at your own risk. this was done by management. it was done by management, so don t rely on the statement that you are getting. that s an interesting defence. no, i don t think that sweater. you can say, i warned people that this might be fraudulent, so therefore, do business with