here in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, january 19th. i m john berman. brianna is living the night life this week, and kasie hunt is here. it s great to have you here. look at all the beautiful buildings behind us. it s a beautiful morning. we have breaking news from overnight. major development and new details in the civil investigation of the trump organization. in a court filing, new york attorney general letitia james uncovered significance evidence, those are her words, of misleading and fraudulent practices to obtain economic benefits. this is a big escalation in her language. and the first time she has gone this deeply into specifics. the case also turning up the heat on trump s children. james said have been closely involved with the transactions in question. investigators now taking legal action to compel ivanka and don jr. to supply with subpoenas and
the hands of americans quickly is quite the ask. gabe, what s the plan to get this done? reporter: well, kasie, there are a lot of moving pieces to get this done. this is one of 43 usps facilities that will be spwrs where they will be working on this program, bringing in temporary workers who will put the test kits together and get them shipped out. as you mentioned this morning, usps, the postal service, they re already dealing with staffing issues, serious issues, because of this surge. and now they are facing growing pressure as well as the biden administration, to deliver. this morning, the new government website covidtest.gov is up and running with just a name and address, families can request four free at-home rapid antigen tests to be delivered to their home. the biden administration faces growing pressure to fixing the
let s talk a little bit about the january 6th committee s decision to issue the six recent subpoenas. that s the other piece of this story. you ve got on the one hand the trump ag excuse me, the new york ag investigation. but you also have subpoenas of eric trump and kimberly guilfoyle. what does this tell you about the pressure on the trump family? reporter: well, it tells me a couple things, kasie. with respect to the subpoenas to the four individuals, the three lawyers and boris epshteyn, there is no way this happens without the accompliced conduct of the lawyers. the lawyers were key parts of this. they abused their discretion as lawyers. they told lies. they spread the big lie. there is no way this gets off the ground without the lawyers. it shows me the committee is focused in on that. with respect to the phone subpoenas relating to eric trump and kimberly gill foil, that tells me the committee is
potential criminality and definitely cooperation with individuals, even potentially members of congress. i would say this. i think an indicted donald trump is still by far the 2024 front-runner. that s the reality. and the republican party needs to wake up to it. there s stim time for that to change. and for folks like a pence to really start to win back the party to our core values and get good beyond this kind of difficult moment. as of now he is the front-runner regardless of where this goes. elie, i have two questions for you. i want to first wrap up the discussion on the subpoenas from the january 6th committee. and i have a question about the major developments in the new york attorney general s investigation. kasie brought up the idea of privilege. these are all attorneys. do they have any kind of attorney/client privilege here? well, they are certainly going to claim that, john. it s actually interesting. it s not settled that congress even has to observe attorney/client pr
filing, when eric trump went in for testimony and the chief financial officer, they both asserted the fifth amendment and did not answer more than 500 questions each, according to the new york attorney general. kasie, john. kara scannell, thanks very much for that. contributing columnist and i should note one-time trump tower property owner, george conway. thank you for being with us. this is the furtherest letitia james has gone, saying she has significant evidence of misleading statements and documents. what do you see as the significance here? well, i think the significance she s willing to go out and say this, as you pointed out, is something. you don t go out and make these statements unless you have something to back it. that s one level. on another level, it is not that surprising. this investigation has been going on a long time.