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quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
at our best, we learn from our past and we look to the future. a nation continuously striving to be a more perfect union. i m here to speak to another truth. it s because of this congregation and the black community of south carolina, and not an exaggeration, jim clyburn, that i stand here today as your president because of all of you. that s a fact, and i owe you. i ve done my best to honor your trust. that means rejecting the small, narrow, cramped view of america as well as lifting up a bigger and broader view of america that holds that, if you do well, i do well, we all do well. when our freedoms are protected, we deny hate is a safe harbor where everyone is a fair shot at a life of dignity and opportunity and where our democracy works for everybody. it benefits everybody. i don t get these guys. everybody does better. even those folks who disagree with us. i m keeping my commitment to you. that s the america we re building together instead of erasing history, we re makin
an extreme movement of america, the maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now. they re trying to steal an election. now they re trying to steal history. we have an economy that s so fragile, and when there s a crash i hope it s going to be during this next 12 months. trump is expected to attend as a three-judge appeals court panel decides if he can be charged with election interference. and i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple. the question is who s afraid of nikki haley. the answer is donald trump. that election trump lost it, biden won that election. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day, and i think president trump will have to answer for it. and that brings us to today, thursday, january 11th where donald trump is expected in a courtroom yet again. this time in a last ditch effort to save his business empire from the fallout of fraud. meanwhile, his two top republican rivals bat
as trump s lawyers are arguing? or is that claim not just constitutionally wrong, but also say license for future presidents to commit crimes while in office, as the justice department argues? and on the eve of a hearing on the question of whether trump can be prosecuted for his actions while in office, we are learning incredible new details about what donald trump said on january 6 and what h did and did not do. thanks t testimony, to the special l closest aides, the deputy chief of staff dan scavino. from that reporting, quote, sources say scavino told smith s investigators as the violence began to escalate that day, trump was just not interested in doing more to stop it sources also say that the former trump aidk luna told federal investigators that when trump wa informed that then-vice president mike pence had to be ush rushed to a secure location, trump responded so what. luna saw an unexpected willingness by trump to let potential harm come to a long time loyalist. and