thanks for your time joining us for this hour of breaking news. we begin with this. he is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth and he looks ever so much like robert redford. he dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age he estimates that he s worth more than 200 million. that is how the new york times described donald trump in 1976. if you ask donald trump then, and now, he would say his most valuable asset was his brand. and for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius. want to be rich? be like trump. you will walk down the street sometimes and people will touch you, just for the good luck! i never figured that out. i never really understood it but it is something that has been happening, at first i took great offense to it, and i almost have to consider it a compliment. i don t know what it is, but perhaps going into a deal, or perhaps do
watching erin burnett outfront starts right outfront next, the breaking news, trump s business taking a major hit, the former president ordered to pay nearly $355 million and banned from doing business state of new york. just trump have the money to pay this because fani willis is father on the witness stand. and the question got so out of hand today that the judge was forced to refer for man, one of the lawyers, plus what happened to alexei navalny, his close friend, the investigative reporter christo grozev is outfront, been working his sword this is all day and he has new details to share tonight. let s go outfront good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news, $355 million for president trump and his business empire taking a massive hit today, the judge in trump s new york fraud trial, just deciding trump must pay 300 good, 54 million to be exact. and then there s interest on top of that that he s also now liable to pay that could add another
court case. may and june, he is in another. he s already said he s going to spend most of this year in a courtroom, not on a campaign trail. that s not a way you win. but then you go and look at the fact, we lost a vote on mayorkas. we lost a vote on israel. the rnc chair lost her job. and trump had his fingerprints on all of it. everything he touches, we lose! nikki haley laying out all of the issues with donald trump s candidacy and his grip on the republican party. as she mentioned, we now know the former president will stand trial on criminal charges in six weeks after a judge in new york dismissed delay tactics from trump s legal team. meanwhile, donald trump is facing another ruling today that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars and put an end to his business empire in new york. we ll get expert legal analysis on both of those cases. as well as the fiery testimony yesterday from fulton county district attorney fani willis. her appearance on the witness
i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source and it is also a judgment day for donald trump and his wallet. judge, arthur engoron leveling trump and his businesses with a mind-blowing order to pay up to the tune of $355 million plus interest for being fraudsters and don t sleep on the interest here because the new york attorney general, letitia james, says that it could bring the total payment closer to $450 million the judge found that the trumps engaged in a years-long scheme to trick banks and to thinking that they re assets were worth far more than they actually work for eric and donald trump jr. were both order to pay $4 million apiece. so when you look at it tonight, $300,400 million, obviously a big deal even for a billionaire. but he should be able to pay it, right? we ve seen what trump is testified about, how much money he has but there are a lot of questions tonight about whether or not he even he has this or if we ll have to start selling assets. here s the forme
for us. the news continues to source with kaitlan collins starts now see tomorrow and tonight, straight from the source, donald trump s emergency appeal to the supreme court could be his best and last shot to wash his trial i ll till after the election or forever is argument to the justices. is that without absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, the presidency, as we know what we ll see he s to exist. what is his former attorney make of that? will ask him and just a moment. plus sent shockwaves from washington to warsaw tonight, as the former president is deriving a 75-year-old security alliance with us allies. instead, trump says, russia can do whatever the hell it wants. our guest tonight knows firsthand just how close he came to pulling out of nato before we re also learning new, unsettling information about the woman who walked into so osteons mega church with our son at her side, opening fire with an ar 15. what authority say they found written on that as