justice department to continue looking with those documents, upending a trial a trial judges, i should say, ordered, three of you be blocked, walk the review. and first on cnn, the sources that ginni thomas a conservative activist agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget, that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging that their whole business is, essentially, a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump junior, knowingly participated in the schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s a bi
Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j
asked about this under oath. but when the lawsuit was reveals,,, one of his lawyers came out and said, today s filing is neither focused on the facts or law, it s solely focused on advancing the attorney general s political agenda, absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place. okay, but didn t address the numbers, actually, not lining up. what happens if the state can prove their case? that s when it gets really interesting for the trumps. the attorney general wants the trumps to forfeit a quarter billion dollars, as you mentioned earlier, and to basically be barred from leading any business in new york. this would just tear the pilings out from underneath the trump empire in new york. this is a civil case, so it cannot send any of them to jail, but a separate criminal tax fraud case against the organization by the manhattan district attorney is expected to go to trial next month, and the ag has referred these new findings to the u.s. attorney and the irs.