and thank you for watching cnn newsnight . laura coates live starts right now. i like the way he said, that laura coates live i m going to have an italics on that now. have a great show. we thank you. donald trump s number one son story, eric and darren guess who he is blaming for a fraudulent financial statement. it s not anybody named trump. tonight, on laura coates live so, donald trump jr. with the opening act today in the trump family s quarter of a billion dollar new york courtroom drama. he testified today in that civil fraud case against the former presidents namesake business. and it went, well, maybe pretty much how you thought it would go. he testified that he was not involved in the preparation of his father s financial statements at any point in time. and you guessed it. he said, blame the accountants. quote, the accountants worked on it. that is what we pay them for. now, don jr. and his brother eric trump are accused of knowingly to
my advice for everyone is to go with golo. it will release your fat and it will release you. good to be with you, i m katy tur. breaking news out of new york city. donald trump jr. just took the witness stand here to testify about the trump organization and decisions to inflate or deflate assets to lower taxes or secure bigger loans. joining us now, nbc news senior legal correspondent and coanchor of saturday today on nbc, laura jarrett. don jr., a defendant and now a witness. what s the expectation? the first of his siblings to testify. it s interesting, part of the structure around here is that the dad, former president, was running the show. but at least in the attorney general s telling of this, all of the kids were actually intimately involved. those were their words, intimately involved in how the business was operating. and when it comes to don jr., he s the one signing off on financial statements. that s the hook for them here. they have all of these pages. al
and if they, including some critically injured, get out, more humanitarian aid is getting in. but neither development is altering the big picture inside the war zone where the already horrific situation is getting worse by the hour. plus, donald trump s eldest son and the head of his business empire expected to take the stand in their civil fraud trial in new york. his testimony potentially critical to the judge s decision on whether he or his father will ever be able to occupy a c suite in manhattan again. and a dramatic decision by a kansas city jury that could fundamentally change the way people sell their homes in america. realtors found guilty of conspiring to jack up their fees and ordered to pay nearly $2 billion in damages. the ultimately penalty could be triple that amount and more lawsuits impacting more states are already in the pipeline. but we start with that sign of hope today in gaza. for the first time since the start of this war, a handful of americans
a german-israeli woman kidnapped by hamas has been found dead. 23-year-old shani luke was at the music festival. her body was seen on video after the attack, seemingly unconscious in the back of a hamas truck, paraded around by the terrorists. we want to warn you, the video is graphic. we ll show you some of it with her body blurred out. shawni s mother gave cnn permission to show the video. a sort familiar with the confirmation says this is the way they did it. israelis found a fragment of a bone from the base of a skull. technically called the petros bone. it was a dna match from shawni s family. so experts that october 7th kidnapping left a team to concluding that she was in fact dead. today, any notion of a cease-fire has dispelled. benjamin netanyahu said, quote, this is a time for quarter, unquote. they re pushing at least two miles into the gaza strip. israel is claiming it s killed dozen of hamas fighters. new israeli leaf defend lets are warning people in the nor