welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
school and someone other than her father moved her. validity of which was never shown. and all the while ms. willis facing these have been able to do the work unrelated to this case which has shown in the fact that the murder right in atlanta and crime rates decreased while she s been in office. what was shown through the witnesses and the testimony that your honor heard there was no conflict in relation to i guess the relationship that transpired from, the relationship between her and mr. wade and that there was actually no evidence of a financial benefit that she gained as relates to the prosecution of this case and the ultimate outcome of the case. the corroboration of all of that is the things that your honor is very much aware that she could have, i guess, financially benefited from, stretching out the case for lack of better words by the special grand jury recommended the 39 individuals be indicted. through her sifting through the special grand jury s report and all t
charges brought by special counsel jack smith in the classified documents case. filed multiple motions last night, seven in total. one of them argues that the appointment of jack smith was unconstitutional. another one says that trump had the right to claim that the documents were personal, and therefore, they no longer belonged to the government. worth remembering that the documents we re talking about contain some of the most sensitive national security secrets imaginable. trump kept them in a bathroom, in a basement, in a ballroom even. but arguably, the most brazen of the arguments the ex-president is making and trying to dismiss the classified documents case is this. attorneys claim that donald trump is immune from prosecution because he moved the documents from the white house to mar-a-lago while he was president. they say, president trump s decision to designate records as personal and cause them to be removed from the white house plainly constitutes an official act w
welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand, they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to lone donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical president for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city, and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company or. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cashed himself as a winner. now, he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks loved h
who as a trump administration official, anonymously revealed the danger of trump s abuses of power is back with a new book and a new warning about the next trump. he joins me tonight. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the walls of justice closing in on a twice-impeached, twice-indicted, liable for sexual abuse former president. ours. two and a half years after spearheading a month s long effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, one that ended in a violent insurrection at the united states capitol, donald trump is now almost certain to face criminal repercussions for his actions on and leading up to the january 6th, 2021. and new details suggest that this potential third indictment could be the most damning case against trump yet. nbc news has learned that the target letter trump received sunday night from special counsel jack smith, mentions three federal statutes. three. conspiracy to defraud the united states. tampering with a witness. and