Organization. The probe is focused on whether the organization misled lenders and Insurance Companies possible financial crimes. The manhattan d. A. Has had a separate investigation going into trumps finances, this including the former president s tax returns. Lets get to the very latest. Cnns Kara Scannell is joining me now. Can you break this down for us . Sure, kate. As you know, the new York Attorney general has had this on going civil investigation into the Trump Organization where theyre Looking into whether they inflated the value of certain assets, whether they misled lenders and other related activities. This investigation has up until this point been purely civil. The new York Attorney Generals Office had informed the Trump Organization theres a criminal component to this, theyre working with the Manhattan District Attorneys Office on that investigation. The manhattan d. A. s investigation is also criminal. Theyre Looking at a lot of the same materials which is why theres a s
What do we know about this . Its 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 Generals Office in New York is saying, we have moved from Civil To Criminal Territory at this point. We dont know why that is necessarily. We cant 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 thats listen, in laymans terms here and from talking with legal experts, it doesnt seem to be good news for the former president. We dont have a response from him
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come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.