quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. it s the first time in american history the bureau has searched the home of a former president. sources say agents removed boxes of items and trump s attorney confirmed papers were taken. cnn has learned the warrant is tied to an investigation about how presidential documents were handled, including ones that were deemed classified. the former president, while at trump tower in new york, confirmed the fbi was in his home and he says broke into his safe. top republicans are rallying behind the former president after the search, which likely was approved by leaders of the justice department, including trump appointed director of the fbi christopher wray. joining us now, cnn s gabby orr, and katelyn polantz, unprecedented, as we said, what do we know about the search. this was a search that began in the morning yesterday, and as far as we know lasted quite some time. law enforcement went in to mar-a-lago. they were focused on trump s
unfairly and being politically persecuted. he said the big thing is not just the valuations of the building, which you can argue are subjective to a degree, the actually square footage of trump tower in particular, which is a math issue. it s not subjective. either the ruler says it or doesn t. trump tower was stated as a 30,000 square foot penthouse. his condo. his condo in these valuations. it s 10,000 square feet. they call it a triple, they multiply it by three. if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you. this is insane. he knew exactly what he was doing. but the ag doesn t even have to prove intent. the standard under 6312 that new york court have had for decades and decades is whether or not it has a tendency to mislead. that s the bar they have to
the ag doesn t do that, but the department typically doesn t execution search warrants on former presidents homes either. do you think he should speak out? i think there will probably be limited public comments, consistent with standard practice. the standard practice is he goes up to the hill, and in confidential hearings or confidential conversations prvrs provides an explanation about what s happened here. that s the standard practice of the department of justice. but given the reaction, i suspect that attorney general garland will probably go up to the hill, and have private conversations, perhaps if it involved classified information, those will be classified conversations as well. but, you know, i think there needs to be some level of explanation from the department to congress about the need for the information and why it was done at this time.
suggest. we have will cain who is a columnist for the blaze. i like the tweed. thank you. the actual professor though is next to you and that would be the former virginia congressman tom davis is back with us. i said a long good-bye to you yesterday and i m like, oh, he s back. we loved having you. he is also the former chair of the republican house campaign committee. and he teaches political science now. and ron brownstein is the editorial director of the national journal and he is with us as well. let s move on to the state of nevada because the state of florida is over. it is next. the state caucuses are this weekend. mitt romney is going to head west with new momentum after this big win in florida. he won 46% of the vote. newt gingrich was at 32% of the vote. second place sfin anybody. 13% for rick santorum. 7% for ron paul. rick tyler joins us this morning, senior adviser to winning our future pac and former gingrich spokesman. nice to see you, sir. good morni