anyone. none of his advisers wanted to hear his views on foreign policy. they wanted trump to be quiet. he wouldn t. what is the point of nato he asked 30 years after the fall of soviet union. shut up racist. trump kept going. why would we fight russia, he wondered. wouldn t making russia our enemy drive putin in to the arms of china and create the most anti-american block in history? nobody bothered to answer him. they impeached him for it and starred a war with putin. in retrospect, trump asked a deeply patriotic question. if russia ever joined forces with china, american global power would end instantly. you d have the world s largest land mall and the natural gas reserves aligned with the world s population and the world s larger economy. a russia china axis would be not just more powerful than the united states but much more powerful. it would have the scale to control a lot of the world s economy and trade routes and raw materials. it could project military force that w
is at its lowest level for almost 50 years, according to figures released this morning. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng will meet the treasury select committee to bring you his economic plans. we will have updates about shortly. a hearing is under way at the supreme court on whether scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the uk government. there is at the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface and it s exactly a0 years since henry viii s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent after 437 years under the sea. we can now go straight to the nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg to his reaction on those russian strikes in ukraine yesterday and today. we strikes in ukraine yesterday and toda . ~ . today. we will further increase the -rotection today. we will further increase the protection of today. we will further increase the protection of our today. we will further increase the protection of our critical p
does not amount to the art of the deal. it s the art of the steal. letitia james filed a sweeping lawsuit not just against donald trump but three of his adult children and the trump organization as a whole. james alleges they were all involved in a staggering fraud scheme lasting over a decade so the former president could enrich himself. they stand accused of lying to lenders, lying to insurance brokers, lying to tax officials, and more. ma nipulated the value of records. insurance fraud. each statement was personally certified as accurate my mr. trump. the pattern of fraud and deception that was used by mr. trump at the trump organization for their own financial benefit is astounding. and it is all in stark violation of the law. james claims there are possible violations of state and federal laws but her office lacks authority to file criminal charges, so she referred her findings to the federal prosecutors in manhattan and the irs. what she s seeking is in this parti
justice department to continue looking with those documents, upending a trial a trial judges, i should say, ordered, three of you be blocked, walk the review. and first on cnn, the sources that ginni thomas a conservative activist agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget, that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging that their whole business is, essentially, a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump junior, knowingly participated in the schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s a bi
why do the doj have a winning argument? well it came down to who has the greater interest, on one hand doj has a really strong interest in getting access to these documents right away, because they need to resume their criminal investigation, and the federal government in general needs to look at these documents and decide if people are in danger, spies, intelligence assets, that type of thing. on the flipside, the court says donald trump has no possesses or interest in these records. what this means though, that these classified records are now doj right, now the alternative would have been the have to run through the special master first. if they were privileged, they would end up right back in doj hands anyways. so doj now has the more quickly. hold on to, this don t let me grab. i thought what you are, saying don t, mcgraw i thought this was going to be happening with those documents. that everyone was going to have a chance to look at them, right, which was obvio