suggests prosecutors are seeking information about trump s finances from a small circle of outside was wander and vrablic were never trump s employees, but they knew more about the companies enters more than the employees. did he talked about donald trump s tax returns including donald trump s in frivolous lawsuit against our first guest tonight. tim o brien, who donald trump sued for liable when he reported, in his book, that donald trump was had lied about his wealth. tim o brien, of course, won that lawsuit. and joining us now is tim o brien, he is the author of the book trump nation. and neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general. an msnbc legal contributor. and tim, i just want to begin with you tonight on this development. this news about who we now know
joining us now is tim o brien, senior columnist, and author of the book trump nation, jim was sued by donald trump and won, tim you ve won he s going to take that oath, and is going to be one sentence away from perjury, every moment he is under oath. and in any civil suit, he can be asked for example, about his net worth. because his ability to pay damages is part of the testimonial base of the case, there s land mine everywhere for him. we ve talked about this before, lawrence but donald trump s every lawyers, nightmare under deposition, he s a pathological liar, he s undisciplined, he s prone to exaggeration. for journalists, and people like you and me, this is awesome theater, and it comes ideally to the public, record i think the issue in this deposition is. what s kind of me is going to be there, given all the other
his followers to send him money to help pay his new lawyers. joining us now, tim o brien for bloomberg opinion, the author of the book trump nation. and you were sued by donald trump back when you were a new york times reporter. and to put it, the quick end of the story is you won that lawsuit. it was a huge mistake for donald trump to do it. so here he is with another lawsuit. and tim, i think this one will be thrown out of court really fast. i don t think we ll get much ongoing entertainment value from this one. alas, lawrence, part of me wishes it would make it over some minimal hurdle so we can enjoy the carn valleyesque slaying of the legal arguments. it will never get there because the suit is essentially the definition of frivolousness.
immediately sent out a plea to his followers to send him money to help pay his new lawyers. joining us now is tim bryan, senior columnist and the author of the book trump nation. tim o brien was famously sued by donald trump back when tim was a new york times reporter. [laughs] and to put, the story is, you won that lawsuit. it was a huge mistake for donald trump to do it. so here he is with another lawsuit. and tim, i think this one is going to be thrown out of court really fast. i don t think where to get much entertainment value from this. alas, lawrence, part of me wishes it would make it over some middle hurdles so we could just enjoy the sort of carnival ask slaying of all his legal arguments and see it through discovery but of course it will never get there because the suit is essentially the definition of frivolity. they just have no grounds for this. and i think they know this,
this goes, i think, very much to the heart of what the special counsel s office is investigating. and joining us now, glen kushner, former assistant u.s. attorney and tim o bryan is with us, the author of the book trump nation. he is also an msnbc contributor and glen, we really need you know because we re taking, we re taking a little piece of a transcript, people are kind of running with this that this is a huge little bomb that s in the middle of this thing. what do you make of it? sometimes you accidently blurt something out and it s like, you know, i didn t mean to say it but i meant what i said. they have the ability to kind of restrict our access to some of the information in here. they can rerefact redact things. it tells us for whatever