hours trump has suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club. an appeals court has ruled that the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly simplified classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all the documents seized from his club or his personal property, and that if the fbi found anything classified in there, well, trump magically declassified it when he was president even though he has no record of ever having done that. trump got a lower court judge aileen cannon who he appointed to agree that a special master should go through all the documents. and in a ruling that was widely ridiculed, kenneth said while the special master s going through all of those documents, the justice department is not allowed to look at the classified documents, or to use them in a criminal investigation into trump having the documents at his beach club in the first place.
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
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, fraudulently over valuing his assets by billions and billions of dollars while trying to minimize his company s tax bills. the fraud deception used by trump
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
the world s biggest fish bowl by becoming president of the united states. and that is where we begin tonight with the blockbuster announcement from attorney general letitia james who is throwing the book at donald trump, his three oldest children, as well as their company, suing them all for years and years of vast financial fraud. the pattern of fraud and deception was that used by trump and the trump organization for their own financial benefit is astounding, inflating the values of assets by whatever means necessary to increase mr. trump s purported net worth. the 220-page civil lawsuit alleges that the trumps and the trump organization produced more than 200 instances of false and misleading valuations in 2011 through 2021. the suit accuses the former president of bank and insurance fraud and seeks to recover more than $250 million for the state of new york. ag james lawsuit seeks to effectively run them out of town as far as business is concerned, permanently barrin