Prosecutors go through all of these bank records, financial records. All the backups that the accountants used to create the tax returns. Thats the key here. The backups . What do you mean . The receipts. You know, in the lingo of today, where are the receipts . The receipts in this case are all of the bank records that any accountant uses to make the taxes. So were talking about the Trump Organization, the several hundred llcs affiliated with the Trump Organization and all of their financial records, monthly bank statements. Checking accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, credit cards for all of those different entities. You know, john, donald trump for years fought having this information made public, despite sort of promising it, promising it initially. What does that tell you and certainly as we listen to what tristen says about what all of this will unveil, we get a sense of it. What does it tell you why donald trump wanted to keep this secret . Well, i think politically he knows it might not be good for him to have this information out. One, he may not be nearly as rich as he claims to have been. We dont know that. Yes. The other thing is, this all started with the Michael Cohen testimony about him paying off stormy daniels. The question, did he take that as a Tax Deduction when it was really Campaign Nans was supplied thats right. Thats what cohen got in trouble for making a contribution at the wrong time under the law. So did trump turn around and repay cohen with Tax Deductible Payments . Thats one of the, where it started. Its gone as the prosecutor has said, its gone beyond that in their inquiry now. Trump has much more jeopardy. And tristan, this as you mentioned, this has to do with the hush money payments, but its really a pandoras box. Absolutely. It is absolutely a huge can of worms, pandoras box, whatever metaphor you want to use. This is a big, big problem. Once this stuff is out there and in hands of vance and his prosecutors and his investigators, who knows what theyll find. Theyre talking terabytes of data here, a lot of information. Now, for everybody to understand watching this at home, this is not going to go quickly. It takes a long time to review that much information, and you know, we think of these Government Offices as being omnipotent. Theyre not. Theyre just people, have a team, and as much, many resources as ntheyre throwing t this, it will take a while to get through all of this stuff, but this is a huge t treasuretrove of information. The other things, other than the taxes, did he lie to city and state authorities about value of properties to pay less on them and simultaneously going to Deutsche Bank and others saying the properties were worth so much more, he could take out more debt . Thats a key inquiry as well. A practice documented of his family of Devaluing Reestate to pay less in taxes. That seems something that has been at least a practice that donald trump would have learned as a younger businessman. If that is the case, i mean, how bad is that . For donald trump, if prosecutors can prove that . Well, we know hes beyond the statute of limitations in a lot of this. The big story that the New York Times had, devastating story, that tracked the familys tax cheating for decades and how they accumulated wealth and passed it on throughout the family without any tax consequences. Cheerily, cheating to get ahead. So politically, thats never good. He was able to brush that story off. But if hes looking at criminal liability for more recent behavior, behavior very consistent with family practice, he could be in trouble now. If hes got a Felony Hanging over him, that doesnt make him as attractive a political candidate in the future. There are real life implications for this case, and this proceeding. As weve been having this conversation, a statement has come now from donald trump about this. So this is just in i want to read this. Im going to read in part. Theres the top of it reads like a twitter rant. Ill get to about a paragraph into it. It says, so now for more than two years New York City has been looking at almost every transaction ive ever done including seeking tax returns done by among the biggest and most prestigious law and Accounting Firms in the u. S. , the tea party was treated far better by the irs than donald trump. The Supreme Court never should have let this Fishing Expedition happen but they did. This is something which has never happened to a president before. It is all democratinspired and in a totally democrat location, New York City and state. Completely controlled and dominated by a heavily reported enemy of mine, governor andrew cuomo. These are attacks by democrats willing to do anything to stop the almost 75 million people, the most votes by far ever gotten by a Sitting President , who voted for me in the election, and an election which many people and experts feel that i won, i agree. Just a fact check there. Thats not true. Going on here. The new phenomenon of Head Hunting Ags trying to take down political opponents using this as weapon a a done in third world countries and those who run for prosecutorial or Attorney Generals offices in far less states and jurisdictions pledging to take out a political opponent, fascist not justice and exactly what theyre trying to do with me except the people of our country wont stand for it. In the meantime, trump says here, musrderers and crime up i record numbers in New York City. Nothing done about it. All elected officials focus on is persecution of donald j. Trump. I will fight on as i have the last five years even before successfully elected, that part in parentheses, despite all crimes committed against me, we will win. Where to start . Where to start here, tristan . But lets say this is where i will start, which is, hes blaming new york but this is a Supreme Court decision, which and this must sting for donald trump, includes three of his three three. Count them. Of his nominees. This sounds exactly like what he said he went on twitter to rant about the Trump University case which first filed against him in 2013. Said all the same stuff. Literally repeating himself except now not limited to 280 characters before. Do two tweets in a row. Reined him in a little. A superlong statement and now doesnt have a word limit anymore, a character limit. He can go on and on and on. I feel bad for you having to read it, i do Think Brevity was his friend because because it focused his messaging. I certainly agree with you on that. Come on hire an editor. What is your reaction, john, to this statement . Well, i think hes actually been lucky. His reaction is kind of delayed. This case was really decided in july by a 72 vote, where the Supreme Court said, as president , he is not immune from a State Prosecutor and a State Grand Jury seeking his records. This all is from a body of law that was created by nixon during watergate, and just a following up on that. He had the right under that july decision to appeal the breadth and any other particulars about the case, which he did, and lost in two lower federal courts before it wept nt back to the Supreme Court. They sat on it almost four months to issue a 1w 16word c its over. Gave him a break during the election. Could have come up preelection and helped everybody to have it not be a political issue during the election. Tristan and john, appreciate both of you and what timing so we got this statement in and could discuss it as well. Tristan and john dean. John dean, youll stick around, if you will. Following news on capitol hill. The Attorney General facing day one of his Confirmation Hearing and so far judge Merrick Garland says his investigation, the january 6th insurrection. And vowing to keep politics out of the Department Of Justice and if confirmed would be there to serve the american people. If the president s interests and the publics interests are in conflict, which interests does the Attorney General represent . The Attorney General represents the public interest, particularly and specifically as defined by the constitution and the statutes of the united states. Do you believe that the president has the authority to order the Attorney General to open or close an investigation or a prosecution . This is a hard question of constitutional law but i do not expect it to be a question for me. As i said, just said to you, the president has promised that those decisions will only be made by the Attorney General, and that is what i plan to do. I do not plan to be interfered with by anyone. I expect the Justice Department will make its own decisions in this regard. John dean, still here with us, and joined now by cnn political director david chalian. John what did you think of marek garlands answer . I thought terrific. It was consistent with his opening statement, which framed his whole view of the Department Of Justice and role as Attorney General, and very realistic and historical terms. He is a graduate, if you will, of the department. He came up as a young lawyer through the department. He knows it both at the line prosecutor level, at the middle level of management, at the Deputy Attorney generals office. He was there when some of the divisions were created. So he knows his way and knows what the department can and cant do what it should and should not do. I think this is is a breath of fresh air for this department battered severely during the last four years and im sure the attorneys there feel much relieved about their new Attorney General. David, this was, i mean, a pretty lowkey hearing. But he got emotional at one point during the hearing. Lets listen to that. I come from a family where my grandparents fled antisemitism and persecution. The country took us in, and protected us. And i feel an obligation to the country to pay back and the highest best use of my own set of skills to pay back and so i want very much to be the kind of Attorney General that youre saying i could become. And ill do my best to try to be that kind of Attorney General. It was it was a really moving moment, david, but i also think considering as hes talking about prosecuting, you know, and investigating january 6th, it speaks to what must be a priority thats very personal to him of fighting against White Supremacy and bigotry. Yeah. This was in response to a question from senator cory booker, the democrat of new jersey, who was asking him to say if theres anything in his personal life and experience that speaks to this desire to really oversee a Justice Department that is serving justice for all, including those that have been historically not well served by the Justice Department or by law enforcement, and this, this was his answer. It gets to the heart of the man. It also gets at his humility at the mission before him, and as you said. He said, prosecuting those january 6threlated cases is going to be the top priority for him going in here and i think thats intertwined into exactly what you just heard in that very emotional response to that question. David, what did you think when you heard republicans lecturing about the politicization of the Department Of Justice after the last four years . You know, i think several republicans were trying to bait garland into getting into the political back and forth on certain issues. Right . Whether it was the russia investigation, and how that was initiated, or he just was not going there at all. What josh hawley of month 340 tried to get him whether or not he supports defunding the police. He was like, you know that President Biden doesnt support that. And neither do i. Hes not going to give them the political sound bite they were looking for. Listen, hypocrisy exists on both sides of the aisle in washington all the time. We see this, went through four years of a heavily politicized Justice Department. Mayor irk garland i think is actually winning over some republican votes for his confirmation, brianna, by asserting time and again that his mission is to make sure that the Department Of Justice is independent of politics. Not policy. Not joe biden, democratic president s preferred policies, that he will have to sort of get right with the law and make sure that the Biden Administration policies are legal, but politics is not going to have an influence on how he contacts himself as Attorney General, and i think some republicans, you heard from Lindsey Graham and others who seem inclined to vote for him at this point. You know, john, i wonder, because he is a sitting judge. There are many questions that he just wasnt able to answer. Which isnt surprising. But it did allow him to avoid commenting on some things, on his predecessors, for instance. Is that going to cost him any votes, do you think . Kind of not being able to talk about those things . I dont think it should. As you know, as any observer of washington and confirmation proceedings understands, if you have seen if a few times its a gotcha game. They try to bait witnesses to say things they wish they hadnt said. Or that they might want to take back later. And that was throughout the day. Thats whats been the nature of many of these hearings. Its also a chance for members of the committee to lay out their laundry list of favorite projects and talk about them and hopefully get some commitment from the new Attorney General, if theyll followup on. So these are, these are vulnerable moments for the nominee and hes seasoned, knowing how to handle it. Handling it very effectively and not committing to anything he doesnt want to commit to. Hes you know, after 25, 24 years on the bench, hes been in a lot of situations. Hes not going to get boxed in in a Confirmation Hearing at this stage. John dean can, david chalian, thank you so much to both of you. Thanks, brianna. Next, to capitol hill. A Police Officer speaking out For The First Time on the mob he faced during last months insurrection, plus an extreme lift arrested during the riots claims she was given a v. I. P. Pass and met with secret Service Agents before it all went down. 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Heres a clip from her filing here in which she says on january 5th and 6th she was again preparing for Security Apparatus of the day. Not present as an insurrectionist but to provide security to the speakers at the rally, to provide escort for legislators and others to march to the capitol. This statement goes on to say that that was at the direction by the then president and was also there to safely escort protesters away from the capitol and to their vehicles and cars at the conclusion of the protest. The critical part of this statement is when the Defense Attorney alleges that she was given a v. I. P. Pass to the rally and met with secret Service Agents. She was within 50 feet of the stage during the rally to provide security for the speakers. Most important thing, this is the allegation from the Defense Attorney. The Secret Service is vehemently denying that this happened, and in the way the Defense Attorney describes it. Secret service told cnn sunday they relied on Government Partners to provide security for the day, and any indication that the Secret Service was contracting with a private security or private citizens to perform those functions is absolutely false. Again, the Secret Service saying they were relying on Government Partners as they always do to shore up security for the day pap wild accusation and something were trying to learn a lot more about. Bottom line, Secret Service says this is just not true. Interesting. Whitney, thank you for that report live from washington. Also hearing from capitol Police Officer harry dunn breaking silence on the terrifying moments he endured as the mobbed stormed the capitol telling abc Newsed Rioters yelled racial slurs and that he feared for his life. We fought with these people who were prepared for a fight. They had on gas masks. They had on body armor. They had on twoway radios. They had on tactical gear. Bulletproof vests, they were ready to go. When you see that level of preparedness did s nness that s scare you . I was scared pb absolutely scared. On this platform, im a big guy, 67, im a giant person and we had our guns out and im thinking all of these people out there. Theyre armed, too. Im like im going to get shot. Theyre going to take me out. I remember at one point i said, how was this going to end . We got dozens of officers down. We got dozens of officers down and you got the nerve to be holding a Blue Lives Matter flag. I thought a moment where they came to and realized what are we doing . Snapped out it and said, no, were doing this for you. Doing this for you. One of the guys kept walking by, the other one pulled out his badge and said, trust me, i understand. Were doing this for you, buddy. And hes got a badge. Showed me his badge. What did you think . A Fellow Officer youve got to be kidding me. Got to be kidding me . I sat down with a good friend of mine and i said, is this america . 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Terrified passengers saw this can you imagine out of their windows shortly after takeoff as debris from the shattered engine rained down on neighborhoods below. The Engine Explosion happened moments after departing den vadenver and this flight landed safely. And pulled these engines from its fleet and ntsb opened arn investigation into the incident. Back with us now, alan armstrong, pilot and aviation attorney. Here in the last hour you walked us through this jet engine and really what could have gone what did go wrong. What could what else could have gone wrong. Tell us a lot about exactly what happened. Well, from the reports weve received so far, brianna, what we have is, we have a crack, a transverse crack, in a compression blade. This is perpendicular to the leading edge of the blade, and when that break happens, this remainder is going to depart, and it has two avenues. It can try to depart laterally, but youve got this armor belt here that protects the fuselage from a penetration or it can go aft into the engine itself. A jet engine is called a cylindersasabers. These compress air back into the engine and that compressed air is ignited with fuel, and with ignition, and that results in propulsion. Thats higow a jet is propelled forward. The problem in this situation is, we have a crack in a blade that is propelled aftward and it destroyed the engine. It just destroyed it. Just destroyed it. And was lucky to not go into the fuselage. You mentioned last hour that when it comes to these fan blades that were looking at, i mean, they are in operation for Tens Of Thousands of flight hours. So theyre titanium, which is strong, but obviously over time there can be some weakness and seems very much a visual inspection of these fan blades. Is there something else, Something Better that can be done to make sure Something Like this doesnt happen again . It would seem that we would need to improve our analysis and detection of these problems, these specific problems in these blades, because theyre under tremendous pressure. Think about the gravitational forces, the g forces, the Centrifugal Force . Yes, we need better ways to sca mic microoscopy. Is this on the lines of airlines and manufacturers . The short answer is, yes. The short answer is, yes. February 13, 2018, december 4, 2020. Two previous incidents, remarkably similar to this, or virtually identical to it. Playing Russian Roulette with this problem for years now and its finally catching up with us. Its time to do something about it. This happened not long after takeoff, which is, you know, thank goodness for the luck for those folks onboard. This plane was initially heading for hawaii. It would have been over the ocean for hours. What would have happened if this was over the ocean hours from an airport . Yeah. The concern there is, if you have a catastrophic failure at altitude, the aircraft is not going to be able to maintain altitude on one drift so it will drift down to a point where the aircraft can maintain altitude. The question becomes whether the aircraft can actually make its destination. They do studies and they do analyses and they knew how this was supposed to work and theoretically the airplane would have made it to hawaii or turned back to mainland at one point. We plan for these eventualities and these emergencies. That is some good news there. Thank you so much. Alan armstrong, appreciate that tutorial. Next, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to call out Media Organizations for what he says are lies about the Nursing Home Deaths in his state. Well dig into those claims. Plus one of Donald Trumps biggest supporters, ceo of my pillow, now facing a massive lawsuit for his loyalty. Details brought against him by dominion voting. 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Returned with a threat. We did not aggressively take on, i did not take on enough information that caused people pain. And it cause pain for families. I regret. Im not going to make that mistake again. If youre lying to the people of the state of new york im going to call it out. If you are lying in a report im going to call it out. If you are lying in a newspaper, because you have your own partisan agenda, im going to call it out. Now, hes also facing allegations of bullying and intimidation and a new york assemblyman says cuomo threatened him over comments made and pressured him to issue a statement clarifying what he said. Cuomos Office Denies that. Lets talk with brian stelter, our chief correspondent. Calling out lies is one thing but it seems cuomo considers fair reporting about this Nursing Home Controversy to be a lie and that is another thing. And a problematic thing. Whenever a politician reserves the Media Bashing, you know theyre in it deep. Of course, Governor Cuomo is particularly trumpee when it comes to democrats in the united states. He has a trumpian streak and he does resort to Media Bashing from time to time. Now right now seems to be saying he has a Communications Problem rather than an actual problem. Right . Saying, didnt communicate well enough, sosrt out the misinformation. Im sure he feels partisan right wing Television Network unfairly trying to take him down. Every hour talking about cuomo on other channels. Republicans in state of new york feel emboldened an talking about taking him on. To your point, brianna, a lot of row reporters digging into this, asking legitimate questions and its never a good look for the governor to say its about misinformation and lying. By the way, cuomo got to speak again to reporters. See if he continues to say its a p. R. Problem he has or wants to talk about the substance of the matter, brianna. Yeah. Well be tracking that. 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I mean, that is and so tell us griddy actually sent you an email at one point suggesting you switch Power Providers when the storm first hit. Tell us about that. Tell us why they did that. Yeah. So they sent an email stating that the usage the money or the amount would go up which i expect and, you know, it being cold like that and that you need a switch. The problem being is when i got the email and i started trying to switch, everybody had a hold on switching so nobody would switch. I got the same story from multiple electric companies saying they couldnt switch you until February 22nd, that everybody had a hold on it, and as of this morning finally at 8 00 i got switched over to a new company. So griddy actually took money out of your Checking Account to cover some of the bill. How much did they take how the . They got almost 2,000 before my bank finally stopped like they started rejecting and letting them take it out but my account at that point had gotten down to 200. So what is that about, because they are talking about a deferred payment plan, but then taking 2,000. So they are like a prepayment i guess type thing where you can put so much money on your account when it gets below a certain level and then you you set your amount and then it just what they do is a recharge and they charge your account. So mine was getting charged almost every hour. Wow. Governor abbott is saying, i mean, look, a lot of firms are focused on this. You know this and you have been paying attention. Your governor said he will make skyrocketing electric bills a top priority. Do you think youll see relief here . I hope. My whole point when i started when i sent that tweet out it wasnt it was more if i could help somebody in my same situation with the same company. That was my goal. I mean, i felt almost guilty with these people not having electricity that i was complaining about my bill. At the same time my complaint is how am i going to pay this . 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