hello and welcome. less tha n less than two hours before we expect donald trump making that unprecedented appearance in court in manhattan to become the first burton who served as a us president to face criminal charges. let me take you through the light pictures coming m, in, so many in, so many cameras in, so many cameras being pointed at different elements and aspects of this story in new york. the helicopter first charting every bit of the movement that we will see from the former president from trump tower on fifth avenue to the courthouse itself. there at trump tower where the former president has been holed up with his legal team, we were hearing from gary 0 donoghue a short while ago talk about a late minute bid from the legal team to move the trial out of manhattan perhaps to staten island. that request likely to go in and those are pictures from the helicopter of the park opposite the courthouse. we have also been showing pictures on the grounds it we will get that
is just ahead. and a live look at wall street. futures board is back in the green following a volatile session yesterday. we ll look at the challenges the fed chairman now faces in trying to bring down inflation. good morning. welcome to way too early thank you for starting your day with us. there is a lot to cover this morning after a stunning day in washington and new york. first, we learn that new york attorney general latisha james filed a lawsuit against donald trump, the trump organization and three of trump s adult children. accusing them of fraudulent financial practices. we also learned of new developmentes from the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to speak to the panel in the coming weeks. and finally, a major victory for the justice department and federal investigators. an appeals court is allowing the doj to resume its criminal probe of classified documents seized
james says the investigation uncovered some 200 examples of false valuations of trump s assets. she thinks this civil case will have serious criminal fallout. we show that they violated several state criminal laws, including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law. cnn s kara scannell was at that press conference and joins us now. lay out the key pieces of this suit, some 280 pages long. reporter: yeah, ana. the new york attorney general, letitia james, just completed her press conference a short time ago. she described a sweeping scheme. she says that the trump organization, including former president donald trump, his adult children donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump were all engaged in this. she said that they helped the former president enrich his personal net
All right. Thank back. Remember when we asked you who wants to bail out a Billionaire Well Tonight we got our answer. Thanks for dramatic music. Everyone donald trump posted their hundred and 75 bond. The new york civil fraud case. Well not him exactly, but an insurance company. He did it and then providing that and promising to pay. Lets just call it his knight in shining armor because her name night specialty insurance. Remember the original judgment was supposed to be more than 450 million plus you got to add the interest. But trump got it, reduced, not the actual judgment, but the bhante had to pay to appeal and he had until thursday to pay up. So all the talk of the Attorney General in new york, Letitia James seizing potentially his assets sits on Ice For A Little While now, while trump appeals the actual cooling. Now again, the ruling was that trump lied for years about his finances and overvalued as assets to secure favorable loan terms. Now, in a moment, were going to reaction
Hit for the former president. Sources told abc news, his former Chief Of Staff, we have talked about a lot over the last two years, mark meadows has been granted immunity from the Special Counsel jack smith, in exchange for his testimony before a federal grand jury. Abc report, quote, the source said meadows informed smiths team that he repeatedly told trump in the weeks after the 2020 president ial election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless. Nbc news has not independently confirmed this report. Here is what the former lead investigator for the January 6th Committee had to say about all of this. If its true, it is the most significant evidential if element in the entire investigation, and there is really no one who was closer to the former president in the days between the election and his reluctant release of the white house than mark meadows. Meadows lawyer says, he, quote, told abc their story was largely an accurate that there were also h