it s 4:00 in new york on a monday. an empire built on lies. that is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice impeached disgraced ex-president s family business. the trump organization. it is the linchpin of the image of a successful businessman that donald trump sold to his voters for years. but those are the words of mark pomerantz. you re going the hear a lot about him in the coming days. he is a former prosecutor for the manhattan district attorney s office, a man who spent a year poring over financial statements from the ex-president s businesses and interviewing potential witnesses about them. he came to one inescapable conclusion, that donald trump committed financial crimes. here is what he said to cbs news about his boss, manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s decision to halt the grand jury probe that was looking into trump s finances, a decision that led pomerantz to resign in protest. if you take the exact same conduct and make it not about donald trump and not about
mariupol, that was something on paper, that was something that swapped hands between konstantin clemnikoff and paul man fort. and the bulwark was always designed to be answered for at least on the public relations arena which makes the durham probe so remarkable, that he bought into being a tool of right-wing disinformation about legitimate national security probe. it s to me a flashing red that i do not understand. but you made a great point in the last hour that durham didn t just find evidence that trump or get a tip from the italians that trump had committed more crimes. he got evidence from the italian government that he committed financial crimes. what do you want to know? nicolle, i want to know what happened. clearly trump was not prosecuted. so we know the three options, they found enough to prosecute, they found enough to discredit and shut it down or they never resolved it. so it s clear that the answer is