she s done and i am grateful for that. tried to tell us, i ve been shouting from the rooftops, he s a con, he s a fraud. todd: brooke astor has more on all of it. brooke. brooke: the lawsuit from james accuses the former president and his family of financial fraud, which includes lying to his lenders and insurers by overvaluing his properties and claims they inflated his net worth. donald trump engaged in years of illegal conduct, claiming you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal, it is the art of the steal. carley: president trump says banks have a responsibility to stakeholders to conduct their own valuation before giving to a business and trump believes this is culmination of years of political targeting. she said we re going to get him, she came after us, we have been going through this years, i was under impression she wanted to settle. how do you pay something if you are not guilty, this is continuation of a witch hunt that
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
we ve got our correspondents and legal team here standing by with new reaction from some trump allies. also this hour, check out the big board. the markets, wall street reacting pretty well to thats into just out from the fed, and another interest rate hike on the way, to try to get a handle on in place. is this? or will there be more hikes to come? we will talk about all of it. plus an nbc news exclusive debuting here this hour, stacey abrams one-on-one with our blayne alexander, early voting now just days away, in georgia, what she is saying about the state of her race as polls show her falling further behind brian kemp. a lot to get to in the next 60 minutes. i m hallie jackson, along with tom winter, ron allen in new york, and business investigations reporter david enrich is with us, a new book out sefrtds of the damned and care line polici and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst paul butler. let s get to some of the questions at 3:00 eastern, 12:00 pacifi
puerto rico. i m capehart, live from jonathan capehart live los angeles. this from life is the sunday show. los angeles. this is the sunday show. this sunday, the this sunday, a very phrase of the week is prove it. the the problem that you problem that you have is that you have is they go go into into rooms, they rooms, they won t let won t let anyone anyone knew they would near them. they want even let them in the same to let them in the same building. did building. did they they drop anything drop anything into those into those piles? or did files? or did they they do it later? do it later? there s no there s no chain of custody here with them. chain of custody here with them. special special master master, judge raymond job graeme dearie that asking jury is donald trump s lawyer asking trump to backup their lawyers to backup their claim that claims that of fbi agents fbi agents planted some of the planted some of the documents documents seized from seized
tonight. a bulletin from the fbi and department of homeland security warns of a surge in threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement officers and government personnel. according to nbc s kelly o donnell, the bulletin includes the following passages. these threats are occurring across multiple platforms online, including social media sites, web forums the fbi warned that it has seen personal identifying information for possible targets of violence, like home addresses and identification of family members as additional targets. horrific stuff. earlier today, a man died by suicide after driving a car into a barrier outside of the u.s. capitol building. the individual got out of the car, and as officers approached fired shots into the air before ultimately shooting himself. this all comes on the heels of the cincinnati fbi field office attack on thursday, carried out by a former january 6th insurrectionists, who seems to be incited by the maga cult response t