it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll
developments i think just about everybody thought a fairly sizable republican wave was building for november. that may still turn out to be true. we have had curveballs. the horrible mass shootings that have taken place. even with the very modest gun safety bill that passed congress and the president biden signed before july 4, it is clear people are still outraged, puzzled, frustrated this problem continues when no other country on earth has this kind of situation, certainly no industrial democracy. and the overturning of roe v. wade and the supreme court in the dobbs decision. this will be an earthquake. it will have an effect, not on every race, i do not think it will affect races in the deeply red states, but the purple states, absolutely it is having an impact. certainly in states that are normally democratic. these things may work to the democrats benefit. i hate bringing politics into mass shootings. they should simply be denounced and we ought to mourn the victims. i
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The care of the Democratic Congressional ready for the election. Washington, chair of the democratic. Ng her first appearance at a monitor breakfast, welcome. She was born in selma, alabama, and moved to washington as a child. After moving around the country, she landed back in the Pacific Northwest for college and Business School and after that had a career in the private sector before going into politics. She was first elected to congress in 2012, representing washingtons first coppingal district and became chair of the dccc in 2022. Today the democrats have a real opportunity to retake the house, were going to ask you about that. Where the current balance is 217 republicans, 213 democrats. Thats why were all here today. Again, so welcome. Now for the ground rules. Were on the record. Please no live blogging or tweeting and in short no filing of any kind while the breakfast is under way. And once the session ends, theres no more embargo and i should also add that there may be a call
Therell be gone in a Flash Designer Sales at up to 70 or so of guilt. Com today today on Inside Politics, falling in line. Nikki haley makes official what was long assumed that chill pick trump over biden after a lets Just Campaign that included racist and sexist sexist taunts, even an attack on her husband while he was serving his country overseas the question now, well her voters follow her lead. Plus, he did it again. The New York Times reports that Justice Samuel alito flew a flag used by stop the steal still supporters. And some christian nationalists above his second home. A Top Democrats says, alito is quote, speaking pretty clearly about his political one while ties. And were standing by for a rare white house News Conference. President biden will take questions later this hour after meeting with the president of kenya, will bring it to you live im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics 77 days ago, nikki haley ended her campaign without endorsing donald tr