trump s former lawyer and fixer joins me live onset. there cannot be different rules for different people in this country or this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family and their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit, alleging what was already obvious to anyone who has ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in a more than 200 page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric and ivanka. his companies and some of his top executives of a long-standing, widespread scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how ag james put it in her groundbreaking
is differentio than ours. he sending out fund-raising e-mails. this is oxygen to him and elemental. wealth, success, winning, that is central to his being. so alien to me.ie as a person, i can t imagine. i ll think twice about suing you then. please don t. thank you, chris,in as alway. thank you for joining us. tonight in the last fewin hours trump suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club.s an appeals court ruled the justice department can have access tont roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents taken fromit mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all of the documents seized from his club are his personal property. and if the fbi found anything classified in, there he declassified it when he was president, even though he has n record of ever having done thato trump got a lower court judge who he appointed to agree a speciale master should go thror all the documents. and in a ruling that
it s not him in prison, it s everything but. it s a trump branch matters mightily. 200 pages, comprehensive. i don t think they can go to trial. this is the worst days ever had, legally. harry lippman, as always, a pleasure. thank you always, a pleasure thank yo good evening, chris. it is a stunning series of developmentes for donald trump and legal he woulds. the quite a day. as evidence of that, the fact we re saying review with the french. i said it wrong. do you find human to human here, just asking you a question not like there are cameras on. but the notion of having that much legal weight bearing down on meat gives me like a viscera stomach pain. and just wild to me to just live your life in this way. obviously, his constitution
with the video. we don t know what happened before, we don t know really what happened after. but it doesn t appear like the class is out of control or that anyone is at any harm or in harm s way. even the officer, the officer looks like he is in command of the situation. david, do you think that we need to wait for a full investigation or does this video speak for itself? i always say we have to wait for the full investigation. as you ve pointed out, we don t know what happened beforehand. but what i can tell you is it literally makes no sense, as i m looking at it, why he woulds can late to that point, pick her up, pick up the chair she s in, the desk she s in and toss her. it makes no sense. there may be some logical explanation, but i sure can t see it. even if some increment of force was legitimate at that point, it makes no sense to do what he did and i think the other point that one of your guests just made, i wouldn t use the exact same terms, de-escalation, but certainly ver