james says the investigation uncovered some 200 examples of false valuations of trump s assets. she thinks this civil case will have serious criminal fallout. we show that they violated several state criminal laws, including falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and engaging in a conspiracy to commit each of these state law violations. we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law. cnn s kara scannell was at that press conference and joins us now. lay out the key pieces of this suit, some 280 pages long. reporter: yeah, ana. the new york attorney general, letitia james, just completed her press conference a short time ago. she described a sweeping scheme. she says that the trump organization, including former president donald trump, his adult children donald trump jr., ivanka trump and eric trump were all engaged in this. she said that they helped the former president enrich his personal net
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll
gathered here in new york for this united nations general assembly talking about the death and destruction russia caused in ukraine and wants action, specifically that court dedicated and created by the united nations dedicated to punishing russia and holding them accountable and also he wants russia to be denied its veto vote it has right now on the united nations security council. special should be created to punish russia for the crime against our state. this will become signal to all would-be aggressors that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world. reporter: and, wolf, those are comments president zelenskyy made just a few hours after president biden himself spoke. he stopped short of calling for russia to be expelled from that security council where they have used the power of that veto vote to block action when it comes to russia s own actions and when it comes to ukraine though he did issue his own warning message. you cannot seize a na
come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.
destruction. putin appearing today at a meeting with military industry leaders as his lower house of parliament with absolutely no warning approved a new bill cracking down on soldier who s refused to fight. this bill says soldiers who refused to serve or resist orders could face up to 15 years in prison. and this move is causing a widespread expectation that putin may even in the next few hours announce a form of a draft. in fact, there was an expectation he could appear today for national address just as he did right before his mass invasion of ukraine. and our matthew chance reports tonight that this widely expected national address from putin is now expected to happen tomorrow morning russia time, which means overnight here in the u.s. it is an address that could up the ante and change the stakes in this horrific war. the fears of escalation already sending russia s stock market plunging today in its worst drop since the start of the invasion. and if putin is going to sta