Alleging here. Reporter yes. This is really a massive fraud case. The allegation essentially is that steve bannon and the three other defendants who were charged and indicted with him today marketed this scheme, this build the wall scream, collected donations from hundreds of thousands of donors under the false protense that this money is going to go to build a southern border wall. Instead what steve bannon and the other defendants allegedly did was pocket that money, use it to pay for lavish lifestyles, essentially really in some ways if you take out the big names, it is a standard, a big one, a big one very seaseasily provabl fraud. A standard and somewhat simplistic, is it not, elie honig, taking this money and say youre going to use it to build a wall, promise in the description of the website that youre not going to take a salary, that youre all volunteers. I imagine prosecutors would have a paper trail then of where the money actually went if they were able to indict. Exactly, j
The nfl tonight. New England Patriots star Quarterback Tom Brady is suspended for his role in deflategate. Thats using purposely deflated footballs in the championship game. The nfl suspending brady for four games. He will not be paid. Thats nearly 2 million brady wont get. The patriots are getting a record 1 million fine for the team. They are also forfeiting two future draft picks. The decision may be even more costly to brady down the road tarnishing his legacy as one of the games alltime greatest players. Making this decision, the nfl pointed to two crucial things. They say brady refused to turn over his cell phone texts and emails, and they say he was not in their words fully candid during the investigation. Rachel nichols begins our coverage on this latebreaking story outfront tonight. Rachel, people have thought there might be a punishment. I dont think many people thought that it would be this severe across the board. A record fine against the patriots. Four games for tom brady
Capitol grounds. Knives, bottles, bricks, chunks of concrete all reportedly used as weapons. Our own nick valencia is following the story. He is joining us now. Tell us more about the White Nationalist group. What have you learned just within the last couple of minutes . Weve been digging into the past of the chairman, Matthew Heimbach, a 2013 graduate of Townsend University in maryland. We showed you video last hour of an incident she was involved in on march 1st, 2016, at a trump event, a donald trump event in louisville, kentucky. We just got our hands on a civil complaint regarding this incident of the video youre seeing now. We have to remind you this is of course a onesided complaint. This is against Matthew Heimbach, the man youre looking at now, the man who is the chairman of the Traditional Worker Party. But he is described by the southern poverty will you center as, quote, the face of a new generation of White Nationalists. He is affiliated with the Traditional Worker Party,
Murder in court and facing the death penalty. Today new details about his Mental Health history and how authorities once took his gun and then gave it back. Plus, ready to launch . Kim jong un making a birthday threat to fire a missile at the u. S. , and the pentagon is saying it is ready. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead. Im a jake tapper. Well begin today with politics. In 11 days donald trump will be taken the oath of office right over there on capitol hill. But in many ways his presidency really gets rolling this week with confirmation hearings for some of his top cabinet picks beginning tomorrow morning, including senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, retired general john kelly for Homeland Security and the president elects first News Conference comes smack in the middle of it all on wednesday morning. Se going to be competing with the hearings of his own nominees. All of this as mr. Trump continues to dance around a direct acknowledgement and specific condemnat
Japan showed a government warning saying the missile had passed over northern japan. The white house says President Trump has been briefed on the situation. So what is the latest on this launch . What do we know about it . Reporter the south Korean Military announced that this had been launched around 7 00 a. M. Local time here, that it was fired east over the japanese island of hokkaido. Nobody hurt, no damage reported. And this is essentially the second time in less than two weeks, three weeks, rather, that it appears that north korea has fired a missile over japanese territory. This also comes less than two weeks after north korea conducted a nuclear test, what is believed to be its sixth nuclear test and just days after new United Nations sanctions were imposed on north korea in response to carrying out these tests and continuing to develop its Ballistic Missile technology. The South Koreans have responded in a way that we havent seen thus far. They announced that they fired their