acknowledgement that the attorney general previously subpoenaed the trump family testimony. give us an update here. how surprising is this, and how do you see it all play out. it s not surprising at all. we all know eric trump voluntarily sat for questioning back in the fall. and we know james office previously issued a subpoena to the former president himself, seeking his testimony in the civil fraud investigation. she plans to have him sit down on january 7th, this friday. if he doesn t come in voluntarily, she may escalate it further and try to compel him to come in and sit for testimony. the next plan is to sit down and give testimony. there are two separate probes here to underscore. there s the criminal one being done by the district attorney of manhattan, formerly cy vance who
the united states. alvin brag is our special exclusive guest right now. the new district attorney of manhattan. thank you for coming on the beat. i know you re busy. thanks for having me. i appreciate it, good evening. good evening. there is so much to get into including some of the new policies you have on law and justice in new york. we re going get to that. but for national viewers, i want to start with that open case. it was a big deal when the cfo and trump organization itself was indicted. after this much time and after a handoff between the outgoing d and you, it doesn t seem it s building to any type of indictment involving donald trump himself. is that right? well, i m not able to comment on the specifics. as you said, i was newly in the position of a week, it is a matter of consequence where focusing on it. i m focusing on it personally. we have great team in place. so even while the democratic process, as you said, is led to
surprised. the american public is rejecting free money. this is something that you could have ever said a year ago. people understand there s consequences when you go too far with this stuff. thanks. always a pleasure. thanks, charles. have a great night. charles: take a look at this. the front page of the new york post with a guy they re dubbing the hamburglar as he walked out of a trader joe s supermarket with ten steaks. this as crime runs rampant. to eric shawn with more on this out of control crime spree. eric? hi, charles. district attorney of manhattan, alvin bragg, says he will go after serial shop lefters. everybody is talking about that guy, the hamburglar, front park of the new york post. this guy walked out stealing ten steaks from trader joe s. so many, trying to balance them with his chin. retail crime up 30% in the city.
things going on. by the way, ken s explanation of the law was spot on. it is not unusual for one side to seek the depositions of another in a civil case. it is a way of discovering information and evidence. it is a little more unusual for there to be a parallel criminal investigation going on at the same time. not by the attorney general of the state of new york but by the district attorney of manhattan. as ken explains, my expectations is the trump children and trump himself if ultimately ordered to be deposed will invoke the fifth. ken is exactly right. i feel like i keep on saying that but it is true. ken is exactly right, a failure to answer questions can be used against trump in the civil case. it absolutely can t be used against trump in a criminal
fairground in ohio to which the republican governor and the republican u.s. senator declined to show up campaigning for a congressman against a congressman who is being primaried but not iain in the district, it s getting so patently pathetic in his desperate need to have a few thousand people who are wearing his swag and love him that i think the darkness is falling. i have to think that he sees it happening and he sees that the world cares less and less about him except for the district attorney of manhattan. and, jonathan alter, cyrus vance, the manhattan d.a., if he makes a presentation about this, will do it with the flawless professionalism that you would expect of someone in his