What do we know about this? it s significant. At least from a perspective of the optics as well as the legalities, given that we knew that there was this manhattan district attorney investigation that had been happening. That involves the former president and his business empire and the finance. Really, the most we are going to learn was probably from this manhattan d. A. Investigation. You had the civil investigation that was going on by the new york attorney general. Now what is so significant is that the attorney general s office in new york is saying, we have moved from civil to criminal territory at this point. We don t know why that is necessarily. We can t tell you right now the specifics of what her office may have found that is triggering this. One of the reporting threads we are working on. Obviously, this is something that s listen, in layman s terms here and from talking with legal experts, it doesn t seem to be good news for the former president. We don t have a response f
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investigation. they re a series of witness testimonies and visuals, the committee presents evidence that donald trump is not only aware of the violence taking place inside the capitol, but he was counting on it. he was encouraging it through social media posts, and refusing assistance from aids and family members to stop it because he was waiting to see if it would be successful in blocking the proper counting of electoral votes that would cement his loss. according to the testimony provided by the committee for multiple instances, after his incendiary speech at the so-called stop the steal rally on january six, after he told his followers to march to the capitol, donald trump tried to go to the capitol himself. he was only prevented from doing so by his own security detail, who refused to take him there. within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, donald trump knew that the capital was besieged in under attack. at 1:25 president trump went to the dining room off the oval offic