someone with the name trump. joining me now, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist. thank you for coming to the reidout. tim, the idea of donald trump suing the attorney general for the state of new york, this is out of trump playbook, long running trump playbook, isn t it? it is and it s really, you know, i wouldn t call it a lawsuit. i d call it a hail mary pass. it is front of mind for donald trump now is he has to sit for a deposition on january 7th and donald trump is every lawyer s nightmare when it comes to being deposed under oath because he s a liar. he exaggerates and doesn t stick to the script. he views depositions as performance and gets him in trouble and the other thing is
york grand jury investigating trump s financial practices, according to two people familiar with that investigation. it doesn t stop there. according to the post, in addition in recent weeks prosecutors have interviewed a former managing director at deutsche bank who arranged hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to trump. the banker s interview was not before the grand jury. instead, one person said, prosecutors pressed her about trump s role in daegz with the bank. that comes less than a week after the post reported new york attorney general letitia james has requested trump himself give a deposition on january 7th as part of a civil fraud investigation. between all that and the revelations his friends on fox and his own son were texting his chief of staff behind his back, it s been not a great week for mr. trump. it s only tuesday. unlimited cashback match. only from discover.
to get at the issues that affect black people across this country, particularly black women that vote for them 99% of the time. david, new york s attorney general wants donald trump to sit for a deposition on january 7th, part of a civil fraud investigation into whether the trump organization purposely altered the valuation of their properties. trump s lawyers are pushing back and his spokesperson says the investigation is a witch hunt and a political persecution. what do you see happening here? yeah. this is a common opportunity for fraud among people like donald trump. you undervalue assets when you re paying taxes and you re obligated to pay revenue on them. you overvalue them in terms of the marketplace and the sale point. and so the new york state attorney general is saying, look, that is fraud, that is outright flawed. as you pointed out, rev, it s a civil case. very importantly, the manhattan
deposition on january 7th. the post is reporting her office is looking into whether widespread fraud, quote, permeated the trump organization and whether it manipulated real estate properties. donald trump has not been personally accused of wrongdoing here. let s turn to new developments with the investigation into the capitol insurrection. mark meadows, donald trump s former chief of staff, is now suing the house select committee. meadows recently stopped cooperating with the committee, on again, off again, cooperating, not, and now suing but not before he turned over a trove of documents. jamie gang l joins me with more. she told congress they d received a number of extremely interesting nonprivileged documents from meadows. you have insight into what is so interesting about these