we all knew about when he lost. we all knew about the military career he lost as a result of bravely crossing donald trump. but to hear where he s headed was so encouraging and that in itself was inspiring. that he is turning what s happening to him into a positive direction in his own life. he has never doubted, even though it cost him heavily. he never doubted the decision to do the right thing. it was heartening. thank you ali. have a good shell. thank you. very bad things happen to donald trump when people see his tax returns and donald trump knows that which is why he always tries to prevent anyone from seeing his tax returns. donald trump has suffered another big loss in his lifelong campaign to hide his tax returns. the trump treasury department in the trump justice department violated the law and lied about the law by refusing to allow the irs to handle her donald trump s tax returns to the chairman of the house, richard neil. the law on this couldn t be simpl
i m chris hayes. the case against the trump organization has chief financial officer allen weisselberg has charges and indictment and allegations. obviously, it s not the sum total of what prosecutors know, and we haven t read the defense. but if the allegations in the indictment are true in the context they are presented it sure seems like a pretty black and white picture of tax fraud. not some incidental bookkeeping ever but a plan that was systematically engineered over the years to create an alternate hidden means of composition that evaded taxes. historically, the smoking gun of tax fraud, any fraud, is the two sets of books, right? anytime a business or has different financial records you ve likely found fraud, right? because why would you need to? it s telling one set of people like tax collectors lies about your finances while you are keeping another accurate set of records hidden and in order to keep those lies straight you need to sell some books and that is exactly
financial officer allen weisselberg at this point just charges and indictment. they re allegations. it s not the sum total of what prosecutors know and we haven t read the defense response. but if the allegations are true in the context they are presented, it sure seems look a pretty black and white picture of tax fraud, not some incidental bookkeeping error, but a plan that was systematically engineered over the years to create a means of evading taxes. the smoking gun of tax fraud is the classic two sets of books, right? any time a business or individual has financial records you have found fraud because why would you need two. the cornerstone of fraud is telling one set of people like tax collectors lies about your finances while you were keeping an accurate set of records hidden. and you need to two sets of books. that is what prosecutors allege they have evidence of here, just one example of many. prosecutors say, quote, the payment of tuition expenses for weisselberg s
do you have to does anybody know the answer to that stuff? okay? but they indict people for that. we hear a lot about using the company apartment. company apartment. his family was lying about the case and lied it was sympathetic quotes on trump tv. fringe employment benefits? is that really what the d.a. is focused on? they ll go after a corporate vehicle and a corporate apartment? they want to go after the cfo of the trump organization for free parking or something like that. the best they could come up with is a corporate car for the cfo of the trump organization. they spent millions of dollars. they reviewed 3 million documents, countless number of witnesses and they got a guy because he got a corporate cash and didn t declare it on his tax return. keep in mind amidst all this, they re not saying you have it all wrong at all. how dare you prosecute someone who s evading taxes on millions of particulars of income. that s nothing to us. people get prosecute
people remain unaccounted for. this is multiple buildings in the miami area have been evacuated over the past several days over new safety concerns, cnn s natasha chen is in surfside, florida, with the latest. natasha, this opens up really the entire site now for these rescue and recovery workers. are they already working there now in the wake of this demolition, and how much of a difference is it expected to make? well, jim, there is a bit of activity now. we do know that the search and rescue mission is back on after they temporarily paused for this demolition. you can see there s a crane in the background between the buildings. that s where we saw the rest of the standing champlain towers south up until 10:30 last night when that controlled blast brought it down. as you mentioned, they really wanted this to happen before the storm potentially comes through creating wind gusts and then picking up that concrete and debris threat potentially making that unstable structure f