quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
Learning. Thank you. Really to share as you. Thank thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And it is such a delight for me to be able to talk with my colleague and very good friend phil rucker and i am going to start out by telling you a story about phil rucker and i am going to tell this story and so why isnt phil telling this story . Because hes too much of a gentleman to tell this story because it makes me look really bad. Election night 2016. Phil had been out with trump quite a bit and he kept saying, you know, somethings going on out there. And i had written a story over the weekend saying, well, theres this little tiny eye of a needle that donald trump could get through. You know, michigan and parts of it. But i didnt really believe it. So its Election Night. I am supposed to be writing the lead off for the Washington Post. The next day. It is 830 a Election Night and i am 80 inches. Its into america elect its first woman president. So phil shows up at my office and
Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And it is such a delight for me to be able to talk with my colleague and very good friend phil rucker and i am going to start out by telling you a story i am going to tell this story and so why isnt phil telling this story . Because hes too much of a gentleman to tell this story because it makes me look really bad. Election night 2016. Phil had been out with trump quite a bit and he kept saying, you know, somethings going on out there. And i had written a story over the weekend saying, well, theres this little tiny eye of a needle that donald trump could get through. You know, michigan and parts of it. But i didnt really believe it. So its Election Night. I am supposed to be writing the lead off for the Washington Post. The next day. It is 830 a Election Night and i am 80 inches. Its into america elect its first woman president. So phil shows up at my office and he says karen, did you see what just happened in florida . And i said, ph
released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
this is the worst day he has ever had legally. plus, the former guy is already lying about the two big court defeats today. we ll have a special look at how lies and conspiracies can threaten our democracy, as the 11th hour gets underway on this important wednesday night. take a breath, because here we go. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. this is a very big news night. one that has not been good for donald trump. just a short time ago, the 11th circuit court of appeals and a trump s lower years a huge defeat. two of them appointed by trump himself, lifted the judges order that prevented the justice department. seized from mar-a-lago in its criminal investigation that. ruling came after the world learned the former guy is now facing a potentially crippling lawsuit that poses and his real date business and a family. letitia james, new york to tierney general, sued trump, his adult children ivanka, eric, and she s accusing him of lying to banks in the state, fr