Joining us. Seeing a news night with abby. Phillip starts now how monopoly explains Donald Trumps legal and financial peril thats tonight on news nine good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, Reality Crashes into how donald trump views his lifes work and the way that the world works. Donald trumps lawyers are admitting that their client cant make bond at a selfprofessed billionaire is not liquid enough to cover a 500 million penalty, is probably surprising to a huge number of his voters but trump has long treated new york real estate, his empire like a game of monopoly. Hes long acted like real money, real dollars are well, monopoly money in trumps world, he lives on boardwalk and park place. He buys and buys, and buys and borrows and borrows more and hopes that the game goes on just long enough that he makes back some of that money but right now, Letitia James is quite literally trying to collect to make trump pay what he owes for perpetrating a decadeslong fraud on the
This afternoon President Joe Biden is taking his brand on energy on the road after a fiery state of the Union Address in which he laid out the choice facing voters in november. He made a stunning indictment of the gops decision to turn its back on democracy and freedom both here and abroad, all in service of the disgraced wannabe autocrat who is The Republicans presumptive president ial nominee. President joe biden will be soon making remarks in pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is central to his hopes of prevailing in november. If todays speech is like anything we saw last night from the president he will take a blow torch to his opponent and the Republican Party. Standing before congress in front of some of the very same people who aided and abetted donald trump, trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the very seen of the crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far it no longer respects or ad
Committee because of executive privilege? absolutely. that s right. that nails it. on the mar-a-lago documents case were you surprised at the ruling at all? no, i wasn t surprised. you know, to some degree trump has been able trump s lawyers have been able to play out this string. and, you know, because you are journalists and you want to give due to what they were filing, they were filing documents, which, you know, to anybody who knew anything, made no sense. the notion that any criminal defendant after a search can go into a court and say stop the presses here, i want to look at all the documents, give me back the documents, i want to see whether you see things that you shouldn t have seized. and any criminal defendant let me actually change that. anybody who has a search before they were indicted had rights to control the investigation is absurd. there s certainly attorney-client privileges. law firms get special masters,
Grand jury got was a lot of first-hand information about what they had told the president and the president s reaction to all the things sarah nicely summarized and that s a lot of information that the grand jury did not have, so this, to me, would increase mr. trumps jeopardy considerably pit so just to be clear you think because the judge ruled in this and sent it back to testify, that they would say things that for instance they would not say to the january 6 committee because of executive privilege? absolutely. that nails it. on the mar-a-lago documents case were you surprised at the ruling? i was not surprised. to some degree trump has been able, his lawyers have been able to play out this string and because you are journalists and you want to give due to what they were filing, they were filing documents which to anybody who knew anything made no sense. the notion any criminal
The mic to some degree trump will not cut it. joe biden was supposed to be the man with a plan that i don t he has a plan. real wages down 0.2%. record prices i went to pull up my f-150 today and topped $100. it is just an absolute disaster of their own making by spending record amounts of money. vladimir putin or anybody else and democrats have the house and senate and the penn state is by shutting down the energy sector. that is why you see $6 plus gasoline that you see on the screen. shannon: the hill today talked about how difficult for democrats and a midterm year and historically the midterm election after the president s election is not good for his or her. okay, so they say democrats are facing a nightmare scenario was six months to go before the midterm elections. inflation, immigration the war in ukraine and still lingering covid-19 pandemic make for a dreadful atmosphere for