fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga winners raises the stakes for the midterms. an explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do. that the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a distant different to investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well know he has mocked others for in the past. we have more o
trump empire. and what he found than probably wouldn t shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much lauded business excellence was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollars. that he wasn t remotely close to being a billionaire. and so in 2005, tim o brien wrote a book exposing donald trump s prolific lies, and exaggerations about his wealth. donald trump reported by suing time o brien for defamation a year later, and that is how we got to see what it s like when donald trump testifies under oath. quoting from the transcript, attorney, mr. trump, have you always been completely truthful in your public statements about your net worth of properties? trump, i try. attorney, have you ever not been truthful? trump, my net worth blocked away, and it goes up and down with a market and with attitudes and w
new information about the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might have talked to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let s go back in time a little. to 2005. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o brien, the guy on the left, the side to side digging into the so-called trump empire. and what he found then probably wouldn t shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much lauded business success was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollar
filling the vacuum as trump lawyers refused to release the fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga primary winners raises the stakes for the midterms. and explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do that. the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a different investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well
and heartbreaking reporting. thank you for all the work. that s all i have this time all in this wednesday night. msnbc prime starts right now with ali. i. ali lisa good to see you, again you have yourself a fact sense of giving, we ll see you tomorrow. and thank you for. joining this hour, we got a big show for you tonight as we continue to learn new information about the fbi s search of donald trump, florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might not talk to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let s go back in time a little. to do thousand and five. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o brien, the guy on the left, the side to side digging into th