documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g
guarantee to change racist rental practices at their apartment complexes, or a promise to do better when it came to running their businesses. the trumps always seem to get away with it. so in this case, the attorney general s insistence on going forward and her resistance to a settlement is pretty much unique. you know, this is opposite from civil claims made by individuals. donald trump once said to me that these are all slip and fall cases and he won t settle. but, in fact, he does settle. yeah pm. he settles a lot. he settles more often than he goes to trial. it s interesting that it s not just donald trump we re talking about, right. his kids are part of this lawsuit. talk to us about the family dynamics given ivanka, don june
i ll go man-pire. right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones is back on trial and he took the stand today in this connecticut defamation lawsuit against him. his testimony follows the gut
mar-a-lago last month. manu raju on capitol hill for us. thank you for bringing us that reporting. i want to bring back elie honing now because there s the other bombshell the new york attorney general s lawsuit against trump, his family, business, set the scene on this one. the lawsuit is against donald trump and his family members and his businesses. i think we lost the wall but we can talk it out here. the suit is a civil suit, it s not a criminal lawsuit. so we re talking about money penalties and we are talking about other remedies that could take donald trump out of business. he has been sued along here we go with his family members and his businesses. the key allegation here is that donald trump and his businesses overinflated, vastly overinflated the value of certain properties, 200 plus examples given in the complaint, 40 wall street actually worth $200 million, trump and his people claimed more than double