good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. just a few minutes from now, ivanka trump will return to the witness stand in the fraud trial where her most used phrase has been i don t recall. and moments ago, we learned about a new legal maneuver from prosecutors. plus, with his daughter on the stand and republican rivals headed for the debate stage, donald trump looks to take back the spotlight with one of his signature rallies tonight. and a big blow to glenn youngkin s brand as virginia voters thwart his plans for a gop takeover for the legislature. what could it mean for presidential ambitions. breaking news in the hunter biden saga, the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, sending the president excuse me. let s go to our nbc reporters. excuse me one sec. apologies for that, lindsey. let s begin in new york city. we re outside the trial in lower manhattan and from what we re seeing from ivanka today, stylistically she s
mar-a-lago is worth $18 million. mar-a-lago is worth probably 15 to 100 times more than that and it s a terrible thing. at the end of the day the documentary evidence demonstrated that, in fact, he falsely inflated his assets to basically enrich himself and his family. he continued to persistently engage in fraud. the numbers don t lie. donald trump as new york attorney general letitia james after another combative day in court for the former president. we ll recap trump s testimony and get expert legal analysis in just a moment. also ahead israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu continues to reject calls for a cease-fire but appears to be open to some pauses in the gaza offensive. plus, it is election day in america. we ll break down some of the key races across the country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 7th. eit is election day. don t forget to vote. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin
you can almost recreate the crime. right there on the wall, a mystery scrawled in blood. three cryptic letters. what would you make of this? is that a word? is that a person? the clues pointed to so many directions that it was a total mystery. the case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant. when she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. did she write these letters? was this a hint to who killed her? this is a message saying this is my killer. like you would see in a movie. and the ending, that was just like a movie, too. i can t believe what people do to each other. hello, and welcome to dateline. roc, in this case, those three letters would tell a story all their own. when karen pannell was found murdered in her south florida home, the letters scrawled in blood above her body seemed like a beacon that could lead detectives to her killer. but what exactly did they mean? what other crucial clues were in sight? it would take dogged specialis
coming up this weekend, don trump s on the campaign trail as the 2024 republican front runner, but i wonder, he will be on trial. expected to take a stand in the civil fraud case in new york. first it seemed like the least of trump s legal worries, but this case has proven to be quite explosive. we have another hour of velshi right now. and good morning, it is sided eight of him to the fourth. i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a split screen image that perfectly represents this moment of american politics with democracy hanging in the balance. donald trump on the campaign trail and on trial. on one side we have a disgraced twice impeached multiple indicted former president raging at the system at the walls close in on him. on the other, a seemingly untouchable front runner for the republican nomination giving his supporters and the rest of the country a pretty good preview of what his return of power is going to look like. and the eyes of the maga base, trump
stake through the heart of the trump business and brand. you can see him here entering the courtroom a few hours ago. he is the first member of the family to be called as a witness by state prosecutors, but he will not be the last. his brother eric is set to testify, as well as his sister ivanka, and his dad, the ex-president himself, who is scheduled to take the stand monday. donald trump jr. along with his brother eric trump have spent their entire careers at the trump organization. eric runs day-to-day business, and trump jr. is a trustee of the business entity that technically controls the entire trump org. because of their roles, they stand accused of committing fraud for years and years and years, involving those financial statements that have been submitted by the company. in his testimony so far, donald trump jr. has been asked about his grasp of accounting on that nbc news reports, quote, he said he was aware of what g-a-a-p is, quote, generally accepted accounting p