Losing: See Trump under oath after caving to New York A.G.

There are new developments tonight and several important Trump cases and I have a lawyer available who is breaking some news. The video you may have already seen, although it was released today, is Donald Trump under

oath

. This video never seen before, new today. in a confrontation that arose from a legal case where, and it's important to remember the context of all the clichés we hear about Donald Trump's delaying tactics and strategies, Donald Trump fought this and lost, the video you see on the screen of your television is something you spent. For a long time I tried to avoid him, but he lost and cooperated with this investigation by the New York attorney general and this is what he said at the beginning.

Anyone in my position who did not accept the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool who respectfully refused to answer the following questions. the rights and privileges given to every citizen under the Constitution of the United States this will be my answer to any further questions as to the second part of what you said, please check that the facts are true, this is a right given to the people in those of us who will go into that AG James Dre These answers were extracted from him in what is a civil investigation into his finances.

This tape is from August. Trump had infamously, memorably, and now hypocritically attacked others who take advantage of this same right to plead the fifth. He went from that to himself claiming the fifth out of 400. times for apparently four frustrating hours I refused to answer the question did the 2019 statement of financial position contain false and misleading assessments and statements is the same correct answer you knew at the time It was concluded that the 2019 statement of financial position contained false and misleading statements are the same correct answer in preparing the 2019 statement of financial position. Mr. Weisselberg and Mr.

McConnie worked under his direction and followed his instructions to inflate asset valuations in the statement of financial position using false and misleading assumptions. It's the same correct answer. On and on and on for four hours, we could have taken a quarter of that 25 percent by tonight's time and just played it endlessly, but we're not going to subject them to what the former president was subjected to in other words, Whatever one thinks about the process and the way some people around Donald Trump, including Donald Trump, have overused the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions, it's still the rule of law, it's still something he fought against. , was fined and finally had to do it.

That's not the only thing you have to show up for right now there's a flurry of legal headaches criminal investigations into coup in classified documents signs in Georgia that the district attorney is saying directly that more indictments are coming, Whether it's against him or someone else, we can't tell you, but we know that the Prosecutor's Office, which has spent more than a year there investigating a Trump-related investigation with a special Grand Jury, has discussed the idea of ​​announcing new indictments imminently and use that as a reason why he couldn't No more information is released in New York, the district attorney is now convening a grand jury that will look into Trump's campaign finances and whether he broke the law in a case that was thought Long dormant, hush money payments to Stormy Daniels were wagered during the 2016 campaign, prosecutors have reportedly begun bringing that case, the New York Times broke that story, and two employees at Trump's company, as well as campaign officials and a former National Enquirer official, testified: You take it all together and, on the one hand, you could say Ari, I feel like 'I've seen and heard this before, okay, you had to testify a little bit, but he really didn't answer the questions and Stormy Daniels, that's an old question and we hear a lot about classified documents everywhere and you could say just wake me up when it's over.

Me when something happens and that would be nice, in fact, it could be a state of mind. A vibe, it's like watching a movie and you say I could fast forward to the end. Sometimes you can feel like that. Then there is the reality of our system of State and law. and the rule of law requires evidence, it requires a process, it requires fact-finding, it deliberately uses a very high bar and that's half the process we're in, whether all of these things eventually lead to more accusations or not. I'm not telling you that, but I can tell you that just as Donald Trump ultimately failed to evade cooperation with the New York attorney general, and just as many other people, like Lindsey Graham, failed to evade cooperation with the Georgia investigation, there is many things that are emerging.

Now, as promised, we turn to a very special guest that we haven't had in a long time and who is the legal man of the moment right now. Former federal prosecutor Ellie Honing is the author of a new book Untouchable, How Powerful People Get Away With Murder and he is one of those authors who has kept some information on the barrel long enough for news articles to be written. about what was in your book, that's why you're here right now. Welcome back, it's a pleasure to see you, Ari, thank you very much for having me. We have nothing to talk about, nothing is happening in the legal world here.

I want to get into what's in your book, but first the point about the fact that James won that round and lost. That matters? What do you say to that guy? of the cynic that I imagined or challenged channeled here who says well show me the money it does matter Ari I think I think you hit the nail on the head this is the result of our process Leticia James the attorney general served as a subpoena to Donald Trump he fought in court he lost and now You know why he came into that room he sat in front of the camera and testified as he should now he took the fifth and you are absolutely right anyone has the constitutional right to take the attack it was humiliating I think it's clear you can see the way that the former president is reacting, but he has that right and I think he is also right when he says at the beginning that his quote is something like that in my position only a fool would not accept the fifth one, he is right because he has several criminal investigations revolving around him around and legally it's important to know that taking the fifth there has some consequences for him, of course, that can't be used against him in a criminal case which is standard Fifth Amendment, but under New York.

Under the law, those invocations of the fifth can be used against him in a civil suit where the jury can ultimately assume the worst and Leticia James, you know, will use that to her advantage, yeah, and that's where when she says, oh, only a fool wouldn't accept the fifth. here the question then is: oh, are you the person who knows what you did? You've done so much that you think it's better to take the shame as you call it a potential humiliation than to tell the truth. We have another moment that we want to play from the deposition, take a look, everything you say in this exam can be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding over a criminal action, you understand?

I think so, I don't know what I did wrong, but the answer is yes, I understand that's to your point and what the many different procedures are. I mentioned a few. You've also explored this idea that some prosecutors looked at Trump on what might be called lower-level crimes, including the Stormy Daniels case, and said, oh. he's going to get in trouble for more important things so we should leave him yeah so first of all I can't believe we're going back to the funny silent payments when you and I met four or five years ago this was the main threat and now it's back because we're learning that the Manhattan district attorney, who is the county level prosecutor here in Manhattan.

I should say that Alvin Bragg is a friend of mine or former colleague who is now the Manhattan District Attorney and is now presenting evidence about these hush money payments to a grand jury and Ari, as you know, if you're a prosecutor who present evidence to a grand jury, you are nine-tenths of the way to a foreign indictment.