with us, thank you for sticking around. and you january 6th public hearing is just around the corner. at the same time, the special master in the mar-a-lago case is asking the former president to backup his allegations that the fbi planted evidence. plus, justice department once again is reviewing and using those classified documents found at his private mar-a-lago club. maybe trump s finances, it might happen in the most trouble, and then in puerto rico, no power, no water, and for some, nowhere to live. we are live from the ground and talking about the challenges that residents are facing after fiona ripped through the island. plus a powerful message from ukraine s president, what president s volynsky is telling thousands of men who are being drafted into the russians army army. also this hour. you think about the situation because, her whole life influenced her. a family member speaking out about the death of his 22 year old cousin in iran. we have the latest on th
the violation of the espionage act. the wolf or attention of the as a really, really serious charges. the fact the justice department has those materials means that trump s effort to delay this has been effectively stymied. we have the j 6th hearing behind us, we have the special master behind us as well. let s look ahead to the former president s finances. that s where you come into the conversation. i want to read for folks about your prize winning reporting when it comes to the former president s finances. much of the money came to mr. trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. he and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise million of dollars in gifts from their parents. records and interview show he helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents real state holdings by hundreds of millions on dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when the property was transferred to him and his siblings. you know what i found a stone,
there was no real growth, in reality it was a bloated office rental company with more expenses than revenue. he made millions by buying up properties and then leasing them to his own company. in other words, he looked a lot like an old-fashioned scam. here is the dispiriting part, it worked. softbank, one of the investors just announced that s paying him $1.7 billion to step down as head of the company. give up his voting rights for running a sham corporation. he is now a billionaire. his employees, you know the rest of thery story. most of them get nothing. wework has postponed thousandsds of layoffs because it can afford to pay employees a severance package.n this cash infusion one save jobs, it will allow that is infuriating, it s also a the company to fire people. metaphor for the broader finance. it s a sham that shacks the
he made millions by buying up properties and then leasing them to his own company. in other words, he looked a lot like an old-fashioned scam. here is the dispiriting part, it worked. softbank, one of the investors just announced that s paying him $1.7 billion to step down as head of the company. give up his voting rights for running a sham corporation. he is not a billionaire. has employees, there is the rest of the story. most of them got nothing. they have postponed thousands of layoffs because it can even afford to play employees a severance package. this cash infusion won t save jobs, it will allow the company to fire people. that is infuriating, it s also a metaphor for the broader finan finance. this is not sustainable. don t lie to yourself and someday when alexandra court
donald trump. is that enough necessarily, glen, do you think to be able to get some type of conviction of somebody like donald trump? katie, as a former federal career prosecutor, this is going to surprise you, i think it s enough. here s the thing, if i were arguing this to a jury, i would say ladies and gentlemen, you have a tape in which donald trump is heard being complicit in a scheme to pay off a porn star and a playboy playmate. you have as cynthia mentioned, a false a sham corporation being set up as a pass-through for the payments. you ve got michael cohen walking into federal court raising his right hand being sworn and looking a federal judge in the eye and saying, i did this to impact the election at the direction and with the coordination of then candidate donald trump and i would argue, ladies and gentlemen, they tried to steal your vote from you. don t let them get away with it. glen, what if someone counters, hey, i was trying to hide this because of my marriage?