and this week was a most embarrassing charade yet. plus, stopping another santos congressman ricky torres joins me to discuss this legislation that would block politicians like george santos from lying to voters, and the hit swell they just keep on coming. fox has been slept with another defamation lawsuit, we ve got the details of their latest legal debacle. i m ayman mohyeldin let s get started. this week after four months of endless investigations, weeks upon weeks upon conspiracy arnold fox cameos, and countless promises of seismic revelations of a soprano asked biden family criminal enterprise, james comer and his republican allies from the house oversight committee held a crop press conference to announce, wait for it, nothing. nada. zilch. no evidence connecting president biden to any wrongdoing whatsoever. all of that work and in unity produces five-page memo showing no specific allegations of a crime committed by biden, or any of his relatives. in other words, it was
fox has been slapped with another defamation lawsuit. we have the details of their latest legal debacle. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, after four months of endless investigations, weeks upon weeks of conspiracy adult fox cameos and countless promises of seismic revelations of a soprano-esque biden family criminal enterprise, james coburn and his republican allies on the house oversight committees held a press conference to announce, wait for it, drumroll please. nothing, nothing, zilch, no evidence connecting president biden to any wrongdoing whatsoever. all of that work and innuendo to produce a 65-page memo showing no specific allegations of a crime committed by biden or any of his relatives. in other words, it was a flop and that is good news for two reasons one, we obviously don t want the then vice president to be tangled in criminal activity. and to, it makes this years-long smear campaign against joe biden harder to continue. and that was the whole
family and the trump business, the trump org of engaging in systemic bank, tax, and insurance fraud for decades. of manipulating the worth of their properties to deceive lenders, insurance companies, and government authorities, though reap billions of dollars of financial gain. here s some what she said. the pattern of fraud and deception that was used for their own financial benefit is astounding. inflating the values of assets by whatever means necessary. to increase mr. trump s purported net worth. and then that net worth was used to further enhance his financial standing, intentionally misstating his financials to obtain incredible economic benefit. it was a scheme that by its very nature became more profitable over time. it is all in stark violation of the law. the lawsuit, which seeks to bar the trumps from doing business in new york, as well as to fine them to the tune of $250 million reads, in part, quote, the number of grossly inflated asset values is staggering.
here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, october 24th. i m christine romans. we begin with the midterm elections now just 15 days away. early voting already under way with more than 5.8 million ballots cast in 39 states. right now polls and political spending suggests republicans are surging and stand a good chance of retaking the house of representatives with a solid majority. recent surveys show the reason for that surge, the economy. inflation and to a lesser degree crime. early this summer looked like the anger at the supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade would give democrats a chance to hold back the red tide and keep control of the house. now it looks like that abortion-fueled momentum may have peaked too soon. they have to split their messaging between abortion and the economy are the democrats. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. i can tell you that that issue is ver
post. the latest missing records are from two officials inside of the trump administration acting homeland security secretary chad wulf, and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli, we will get to all of those stories and more throughout the course of this hour, but we start with the latest efforts of the united states to win the release of wnba star brittney griner from a russian jail. russia s foreign minister now says he is open to talking to secretary of state anthony blinken about the u.s. proposal for russia to belize griner and former marine paul whelan in exchange for the release of a russian arms dealer named victor boot. russia gave no indication of whether they would agree to that offer or for the timing of when the foreign minister might be able to talk to anthony blinken. griner s trial on charges of having to vape cartridges of hashish oil in her luggage is expected to wrap up next week with a verdict, according to her lawyers, they say that griner s had a doctor