well, based on the reporting so far, it seems like all of the investigation is focused on things that would fall under the umbrella of financial crimes and fraud. i think fraud is sort of the big word. was there different types of fraud, financial fraud, miss filing or fraudulently filing business records, tax issues, misrepresenting the value of assets. everything that falls into the big fraud category seems to be the types of things that they are looking at. and what that means is that a significant part of this case that prosecutors are building is a documents case. so the records that they obtained are important, and other all the documents that they have, the digital documents that they have, all of that is going to be the basis for being able to determine whether there are financial crimes that they have a provable case.
have a provable case. usually when, you know, you guys are very experienced with this. your resumes speak for themselves. carrie, what does your gut tell you when you see with the information, the evidence and where this case is going? well, on one hand, i don t think we, the public, obviously know what the prosecutors know. so it s difficult to be able to judge evidence that we haven t seen. i do worry some, don, that there is a real risk with this prosecution because this is a former president. so far, federal authorities seem to have passed on making any kind of financial fraud case, and so this is up to the state attorneys, the manhattan d.a. s office that are taking on an investigation of a former president, his family, his business associates, and his company. and so there s a real risk that
provable case. sometimes the forest gets lost for the trees but the larger issue at hand, ken, the russia investigation and what this country is doing to stop russia from trying to interfere in our election so what s going on with that? precious little, account aty. it s an important question and doing rorting on it and there s going to be hearings on it in congress this week. the is no whole of government initiative from the trump administration to deal with this problem. there are two front, one is has russia paid a price? has russia been deterred to not want to hack the u.s. again? the answer to that appears to be no. secondly what are we doing to shore up the state election systems and look at how fake news traverses our social media platforms. dhs is doing a few things. the state election officials are resisting because they don t want federal interference in their elections and sometimes it breaks down along partisan lines but a really interesting question and not much is hap
situations and all too often, they get hammered. they may need to get under the radar but when you attack a big company, unfortunately still in america, those who have the gold make the gold rule. gregg: judge baker khiws center insist they received no money nor any promise of money from disney in the future. does that alter the equation? i think it does alter this equation. you have to wonder why would they care. unless disney is funding them and supporting them in some way, why would they care and try to throw out one of their tenants. the underlying reason is the organization was getting funding from disney and they are threatening to withdraw it involving the lease, then you would have a provable case. it s getting pretty vague. have my doubts you ll see a