the highest number of rent ales in manhattan, a record more than 9,000. and rental prices down 21%, with landlords offering on average two months free rent many are seizing on that as an opportunity to both live in the city and save some money at the same time. cnbc's robert frank has their story. >> reporter: when the pandemic caused many new yorkers to move out, new jersey native robbie ledove moved in. >> i kind of spent my whole life drooling at the sky line and dreaming of the day i could finally live here. >> reporter: after graduating during the pandemic, robbie landed a job in real estate and started scouring the web for rentals in a pricey section of manhattan. >> so when i walked into this unit, the 19th apartment that i saw, i just thought the deal was too good to pass up. >> reporter: pre-pandemic, the two-bedroom apartment went for $7,500 a month robbie and his roommate got it for $5,500 saving $2,000 a month. >> i was able to move into manhattan and get an amazing apartment for a great deal >> reporter: when chicago native greg franklin scor

"the washington post" is reporting the manhattan da investigating donald trump's company has convened a grand jury for the first time to weigh possible charges. this grand jury would be expected to decide whether to indict any individuals at the trump organization that could include potentially considering whether to indict its founder and chief owner donald trump. other executives, as i was just discussing with nicole wallace, also face potential exposure. cy vance has an investigation that according to "the washington post" as well as according to any basic standard legal representation has reached an advance stage. advanced is how the post put it. we have experts standing by that will walk us through what it means when you get to this grand jury stage. let me tell you exactly what we know from the post and what nicole was covering on our msnbc special reporting tonight. this grand jury will meet three days a week for six months to weigh the potential evidence. that alone is significant because it's different and broader than some other new york grand juries would typically operate.

the manhattan district attorney's office would be examining whether they evaded taxes with a tuition payment arrangement. my question to you is if we're down to examining an ex-daughter-in-law and the son's finances, where the tuition came from, the following the money appears extremely mature, extremely advanced. what is your sense of where that investigation is right now? >> well, i do think it is very advanced. and it's a multifaceted financial fraud investigation. i think it includes tax fraud, accounting fraud and a number of other illegalities. you know, the compensating for tuition and not reporting it to the irs, compensating for free apartments and not reporting it to the irs, that's tax fraud and probably among the minor things that i think they could possibly get trump for. and i think it shows -- you know, if there is an indictment of donald trump, they can serve those papers on him wherever he is. i think it will be -- you know, it is extraordinary that we're talking about extradition because andrew can speak to that process more directly than i can. but i think they can

lourdes: la fiscalÍa del distrito de manhattan siga avanzando. esa semana convocÓ juradopara considerar la prueba de una investigaciÓn criminal sobre los negocios del expresidente donald trump. las acusaciones pueden extenderse a los ejecutivos de la organizaciÓn trump o a la propia empresa si se presentan cargos penales. >> se le presenta la evidencia a una agrupaciÓn de —— de 23 ciudadanos y tienen que terminar por una mayorÍa de lo que estÉn convocados en ese dÍa. si hay suficiente evidencia para incautar a un acusado o varios. >> el gran jurado se reunirÁ tres dÍas a la semana durante seis meses. sÓlo hace falta que 12 de ellos estÉn de acuerdo. sin referirse especÍficamente la noticia de la convocatoria del gran jurado, el expresidente reaccionÓ. " esta es la continuaciÓn de la mayor cacerÍa de brujas de la historia de estados unidos. comenzÓ el dÍa en que baje por la escalera mecÁnica de la torre turmp y nunca se ha detenido". el procurador de nueva york se lanzÓ basÁndose en testimonio del ex abogado personal de don

we have the new york attorney general joining forces with the manhattan's d.a.'s office. what does this mean? how does this change the investigation? >> this is a relatively rare sort of partnership particularly in new york where the state attorney general has limited jurisdiction to engage on a criminal investigation on her own. we know, willie, latitia james has been conducting civil investigations for at least two years. some piece of evidence or some coordinated evidence in her investigation has led her to cross that rubicon into a criminal case. and it's important to never underestimate the value of bringing two prosecutors together. it puts more pieces of the puzzle on the table. people who have been investigating from different directions may sometimes reach better conclusions when they work together. the focus here has -- appears to have always been on the manipulation of property values to achieve tax advantages. and that could be serious criminal trouble for at least in this case trump organization but perhaps for some of its principles and employees personally

the manhattan in new york district attorney say that there cooperating on this case. it's donald trump has always denied any wrong doing . he issued a statement today saying that there was nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a cry on a pulling. now mr. nick ackerman, he's a former us federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york where when a trans investigations are taking place. mister archman was also a member of the watergate prosecution team. it's good to see you again. good to have you back on the program working. so we're going from a civil now. now we've got a criminal investigation. what does that really mean or what is changing about the investigation? and i guess people want to know was donald trump now in real jeopardy of maybe having to go to prison? well, i think what's changing is that this has been going on for a while. they've had the attorney general new york investigating on the civil side, the manhattan district attorney's office investigating the criminal side, but they've always been cooperating. the

he was already facing an investigation into his tax affairs by the manhattan strict attorney, so taking those two things in conjunction, and he is facing an extremely sticky legal situation. he already has been, in a sense, since he left office, but things up quite a lot. —— but this definitely ramp things up quite a lot. in this definitely ramp things up quite a lot-— quite a lot. in terms of his political — quite a lot. in terms of his political ambitions, - quite a lot. in terms of his political ambitions, this i quite a lot. in terms of his - political ambitions, this would have severe ramifications? yes. have severe ramifications? yes, ou have severe ramifications? yes, you would _ have severe ramifications? yes, you would think _ have severe ramifications? yes, you would think so. _ have severe ramifications? yes, you would think so. you - have severe ramifications? yes, you would think so. you are - you would think so. you are right. we are waiting for an official response, but i think we can safely say, you know, we can imagine what some of the content would be of some o

the manhattan in new york district attorney say that there cooperating on this case, donald trump, has always denied any wrong doing. he issued a statement today saying that there was nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. when pulling now mister nick ackerman, he's a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york where when a trans investigations are taking place. mister archman was also a member of the watergate prosecution team. it's good to see you again. good to have you back on the program working. so we're going from a civil now and now we've got a criminal investigation. what does that really mean or what is changing about the investigation? and i guess people want to know was donald trump now in real jeopardy of maybe having to go to prison? well, i think what's changing is that this has been going on for a while. they've had the attorney general new york investigating on the civil side, the manhattan district attorney's office investigating the criminal side, but they've always been cooperating. they've been doing th

manhattan d.a. has been invest good faithing trump since 2018 and is scrutinizing whether his company misrepresented the value of his assets for tax or insurance purposes. that's also known as fraud. no president of the united states has ever been charged with that or any other crime. just the potential of that is a very big deal. last week we learned that cy vance team joined forces with investigators with the office of new york attorney general whose civil probe has become a criminal investigation. joining me now, two former federal prosecutors, paul butler and cynthia. i'll start with you paul. the attitude we learn is they were there to indict folks. when you hear that a grand jury has been impanelled, what does that tell you as a former prosecutor? how likely is an actual indictment here? >> when i was a public prosecutor, i spent way more time in front of the grand jury than in court. prosecutors don't get grand juries for fishing expeditions. prosecutors think they have probable cause. he bel

susan: we have the photograph of your first view of manhattan. after all this time. what was your emotion? neil: i was coming at the bayonne bridge, and i was not anticipating it being there. i was just walking up the pedestrian ramp and when i saw it, i was totally overwhelmed. i sat there for 20 minutes taking it in. you can see the shimmer of the harbor. it brings to mind these captains rouse quotes about ever renewing nature of new york, its beauty. this is a city that has been through so much, through the covid period, when you see it there it is so unscathed. susan: another river you had to cross? this is kevin murray. what was his role? neil: kevin was a fantastic -- he took that picture. i tracked him down at a place called urban paddle, kayak aberration. -- kayak operation. we were going to go across the river. it got windy, and the end he borrowed a boston whaler and took me across. kevin is a fantastic person, one of many i thanks to. he me across to a marina. susan: did you pass the statue of liberty? neil: off to the right, we did. then became into the m

i am james senior fellow and director of legal policy for the manhattan institute for policy research and today i am joined by my friend and colleague manhattan institute visiting scholar richard epstein who is a professor of law at the nyu school of law where he is also the director of the class of liberal institute. he is also the peter and kiersten fellow at the hoover institution. thank you sori much for joininge here today. both of us wrote books that were published last year. yours was pre-published by the manhattan institute and fall of 2019 and published by littlefield last spring and mine came out in september of last year. both involving this subject. my book was entitled the unelected. how a an u unaccountable elite s governing america. richards is entitled the dubious morality at administrative law. this offers a detailed account of the current state of the american regulatory apparatus and the problems with it. we use that it is at odds with principles that we hold dear. how the administrative state undermines a rule of law itself. i explore principally how the administra

what does it tell you where the manhattan's d.a. investigation is at given they said to prepare for grand jury testimony. >> the district attorney believes there is evidence of a crime. you know, it would be responsible for any prosecutor's office to have reached this point and not believe that there is at least some suggestion there is a crime. look, in the grand jury the prosecution has a relatively low bar to clear, it's probable cause to believe that a crime has be committed which means in plain language it's more likely than not a crime was committed. it seems based on the fact they are calling evidence and where they are, they probably know more than that and are calling witnesses to establish that. so this is beyond the point where they're just poking around and looking for documents and i think they're in all likelihood on to something. >> couldn't it be possible they want a witness to explain complex documents that the grand jury will be looking at? >> it could be. you know, witnesses can come in to sort of help authenticat

"the washington post" reported that manhattan district attorney cy vance has convened a special grand jury to help decide whether there is enough evidence to bring an indictment against the former president, his company, or others involved. the grand jury will be made up as many as 23 randomly selected citizens. their work will be done in secret and reportedly, they will be meeting three times a week for at least the next six months. prosecutors have already used a grand jury to issue subpoenas for documents and will be able to present charges which would only require a majority of jurors to deliver an indictment. the wide-ranging investigation includes whether the trump organization improperly valued assets in financial filings. something former trump attorney michael cohen testified to. >> it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in "forbes." and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. >> reporter: cohen met with investigators several times but legal analysts say

according to voting patterns in manhattan closer to 100% of the grand jurors who will be considering the evidence against donald trump do not want him to run for president again. but they will take an oath not to let politics in anyway effect their decision about giving donald trump a new title. criminal defendant donald trump. today michael cohen confessed to committing federal crimes with and at the direction of donald trump in a conspiracy to help him win the 2016 presidential election said this about the possibility of donald trump running for president in 2024. >> 2024 is three years away. and it's a very long time especially when you have the district attorney and the attorney general's office breathing down your neck. they don't just have the document that they got from the tax returns, they now have rudy guiliani documents as well. this is a multi-facetted investigation. there's many tenticles that are going to be grabbing at trump, at don jr., ivanka, eric, the kushner's you name it and a host of other people. i really believe they need to come down, come back to reality. >>

to hallie's point, we know the manhattan d.a. investigating the trump organization. now you have two separate investigations. now they are working together on a criminal investigation. how much worse did the legal problems just get? >> much, much worse. while no one is diminishing a civil probe, it can be costly, onerous, get into your private life, depositions under oath. with a criminal probe, people can wind up in jail. we don't know who the probe would target. we don't know if it will end with a finding that there isn't enough to charge or they charge one or more people. the fact that jail would be on the table changes everything for anyone involved, for anyone worried they have exposure. this is triggered by the fact that people who are under this kind of review do have rights. the investigation reached a point where, as reported, they are informing those involved. that would be presumably here donald trump, the head of the organization, but others involved. they need to know this is a criminal probe and could reach potentially the kind of charges that carry jai

and many of these institutions prisons lunatic asylums hospitals all were erected created outside manhattan on these islands in the east river. there was welfare island there were the corn tina islands and of course ellis island and these were all various processing stations hard island was the terminal island. and 890 s. early 1970 spraying the police department have to fish out scores and scores of bodies that floated to the. surface in the harbor or in the rivers what do you do with these bodies most of those totally anonymous these folks want a hard island. this is a place that new york has to have to service the reality of death. i think new yorkers understand that there are always going to be inequalities in the city huge inequalities and they are in very sharp focus. but. in death. we're equal. we all die alone. in today's world you have so many families who are a strange to or just last week each other by distance by misfortune. and yet to know that someone you once loved or that you hoped loved to you is buried in a mass grave on hard island that resonates. trevor. we got married i

. >>> well, what does a manhattan prosecutor think about the businesses -- or know, i should say, about the businesses of former president donald trump? well, a group of citizens may soon be able to answer that question. this week, manhattan district attorney reportedly convened a grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation against the former president and members of the trump organization. this news was first reported by "the washington post" and has not been confirmed by the district attorney's office. it has been confirmed, however, that investigators have obtained access to the former president's tax records. let's dig deeper with the state attorney for palm beach county, dave aaronberg. dave, how significant is this grand jury development? >> good evening, pamela. it is significant. keep in mind, this investigation started in 2018. the time for further investigation is really over. the time for indictment is now. and i think that's what's laying ahead. this grand jury is a special grand jury that's going to meet for six months, which is longer than the typical grand

. >>> here's what we're learning, the manhattan district attorney convened a grand jury in its criminal investigation of the trump organization according to "the washington post." the grand jury is expected to consider whether to indict the former president, trump org executives or the company itself. it took five days. house g.o.p. leaders condemning marjorie taylor greene for comparing rules requiring that masks be worn in congress to the holocaust. and tonight growing calls from heavy hitters like dr. fauci to investigate the origins of the coronavirus to determine if it occurred naturally or if it leaked out of a laboratory in china. i want to bring in cnn's legal analysts, carrie cordero and elie horn ig. good so see you. elie, starting with you, the manhattan d.a. is convening this grand jury according to "the post." what does this tell you about his investigation into trump and his company? has he found evidence of a crime? >> i think the short answer is yes, don, some evidence. this is obviously significant. this is important. if donald trump is to be indicted, and that's far fr

joining the manhattan d.a. and the investigation into the trump organization. we'll debate the political fallout there. nancy pelosi doubling down today, still demanding the how the wear masks inside even though the cdc said you don't have if you're vaccinated. house republicans defiant, asking what happened to follow the science? dr. fauci blaming americans today for quote, misinterpreting the cdc's confusing mask guidance after dr. fauci confused the country with flip-flops, taking every side on masks and more. we'll break it all down. plus there is more evidence surfacing that the nih-backed u.s. funding of super virus research overseas. we're digging into the government documents. this despite dr. fauci's heated denials. all this after dr. fauci also being bad funding for quote, creating dangerous super viruses in laboratories to create vaccines. we have the documents. woke corporate america called out in a new ad campaign by a conservative group accusing big-name companies of exploiting politics and potentially forced slave labor in china. and new governme

cyrus vance jr., they have no more comments on that the manhattan d.a. has a separate probe going on coming out of allegations of michael cohen's testimony of 2019, that the trump administration incorrectly misstated some of its assets that would be inflated executive eric trump was deposed over this back in october, millions of pages that long prosecutors are poring through, including some of the trump ax returns. no comment on the trump foundation a different group, dissolved in 2018 after a year-long investigation of that organization so it's breaking this morning, brian, as we await some reaction from either the trump organization or the former president himself. >> big breaking news there on former president trump nbc's tracie potts, nbc, tracie, good morning and thank you for that >>> all right. we come back, it is back to business and much more on the crypto crash and china's latest crackdown on the sector. we'll get a live report from eunice yoon in new york. >>> plus, high hopes for retail, t.j. maxx and more >>> the big apple is back. the city

take this one for example, lower manhattan, wall street is just a few blocks away. many businesses here depend heavily on office workers but they are not coming backin workers but they are not coming back in droves. and that will have a direct impact on all of the businesses that operate within the neighbourhood. i caught up with a few of the businesses around here and have a listen to what had to say blue if we do not have the officers, we do not have work and we are slow. figs officers, we do not have work and we are slow.— and we are slow. as you can see, and we are slow. as you can see. and — and we are slow. as you can see. and we _ and we are slow. as you can see, and we used _ and we are slow. as you can see, and we used to - and we are slow. as you can see, and we used to be - and we are slow. as you can see, and we used to be very busy, — see, and we used to be very busy, i— see, and we used to be very busy, i would see, and we used to be very busy, iwould be see, and we used to be very busy, i would be able to talk to you — busy, i would be able

la que lleva dos aÑos investigando a la organizaciÓn trump, junto la fiscalÍa de manhattan. el cambio sugiere que los fiscales pueden presentar cargos criminales. reportera: es sÓlo un imitador de trump hoy en la puerta de trump tower. pero lo que sÍ es verdadera es la investigaciÓn criminal en su contra. segÚn el portavoz de la fiscalÍa, hemos informado a la organizaciÓn trump que nuestra investigaciÓn ya no es de naturaleza puramente civil. ahora investigamos de forma activa la organizaciÓn, con carÁcter penal, junto con la oficina del fiscal del tristito de manhattan. >> es un caso mucho mÁs fuerte, porque antes el fiscal buscaba multas al ex presidente trump. reportera: una especie de cerco judicial para determinar si trump incurriÓ en fraude y engaÑÓ a prestamistas y compaÑÍas de seguros sobre el valor de sus propiedades. >> es un caso criminal, por supuesto podrÍa resultar tiempo en la cÁrcel. reportera: empezÓ en el congreso en febrero del 2019. con esta declaraciÓn del ex abogado del entonces presidente trump. [habla en inglÉs] reportera: el ex pr

manhattan office where the two raids were conducted this week. he's calling the raids illegal. in the previous days, he said they were unnecessary. he would work with the fbi. now he's said his constitutional rights were infringed upon because they seized attorney/clinic privilege on the 8 to 10 devices. what could be found remains to be seen. legal experts said the warrants are a significant step. they indicate the problem cause and show the investigation into giuliani's ukraine affairs are ramping up. as you mentioned, his former attorney, michael cohen, weighed in on all of this and the relationship between giuliani and trump. whether or not he thinks giuliani will remain local -- loyal. >> do i think rudy will flip on him? look, rudy looked like he lost his mind several times. i don't think he's gone that far that he's going to stay loyal to somebody who is going to throw him under the bus. >> reporter: and i want to be clear, rudy has denied any wrong doing and he has not been charged with any crimes. a source that is familiar with the inves

who is buying manhattan? who is buying the real estate in the land and our communities? that should be public information not hidden behind some show company. so disclosure corporate disclosure is important. third step sous chef down, outlaw some of these tax dodges some of these trusts. senator bernie sanders introducing his new estate tax bill, her really good reform bill but also puts these things to shut down the hidden wealth system. and then once we kind of get our u.s. house in order, stopping the weak link in a go to the uk we go to the eu and say okay let's together form a treaty and require these rules and disclosures across the system. and again gallant recently said we should have a global corporate minimum tax. that would require disclosure from all the participating countries to create a floor that everybody knows what amazon, google, apple, every counter with her taking tax breaks we all kind of know what they're doing they cannot pick countries against each other anymore. that's totally doable. you can start to see some of those changes are starting to ha

>> well, from what we've been told the manhattan d.a. would certainly like him to turn states evidence. allen weisselberg in the rear of that photo there, he's almost the human equivalent of trump's taxes. he's the guy through which almost all of trump's financial transactions big and small have passed through for 30 years, so he would be a valuable asset if you thought there were financial crimes and if you thought you could prove intent you could ask him. mr. weisselberg, what did donald trump tell you to do as far as we know allen weisselberg has not flipped, not given damaging testimony of mr. trump. so it might be possible he might be the ones a target of the grand jury investigation rather than a witness >> technically speaking a grand jury decides whether to indict you can't get an indictment without a grand jury in a case like this. however, what matters is how the prosecutor presents the case to the grand jury so often in these cases the vast majority of cases if the prosecutor says here is the evidence please indict a, b and c

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his former daughter-in-law has met with the manhattan d.a. multiple times. listen to what she told cnn. >> will allen weisselberg flip on trump? >> yes. >> attorneys for both weisselberg and the trump organization have declined to comment. trump, you'll be shocked to learn, calls the investigation politically motivated, calling it an investigation in search of a crime. i'm joined by andrew weissman, he was the lead prosecutor for robert mueller and he was the former chief of the fraud section at the department of justice. andrew, good evening to you. let's talk first about the new york attorney general's announcement that her investigation has shifted from a civil one to a criminal one. what would it take for that to happen, andrew? what's that say about what her office and the d.a.'s office now has in their possession? >> what's interesting is that the new york attorney general has limited criminal authority. in other words, they pry maybely do civil cases. for them to transfer the case from essentially being partially civil to partially criminal means that

okay, the new york office is teaming one the manhattan office. we can't find an instance when this happened before to get a sense of the comparison. in response, trump released a rambling denial but it is not clear what it mean for trump or the trump board. this is a former federal prosecutor from the southern district of new york and a former state deputy attorney general who worked out of the very office who released the statement yesterday. this is "washington post" reporter covering the trump family and his business interests. he was awarded the pulitzer prize. all right, let's start with you, as someone who works in that office. i tend to think of attorneys general offices as largely civil investigations. so what was your reaction when you saw that? what is your understanding of the meaning and implications there of? >> i think it is a real bombshell. as you say, the the sweet spot for the attorney general's office is really a complex, on the civil side. so this matter, we know, has been humming along for well over a year and it seems they w

you have the manhattan district attorney. you have the new york attorney general, letitia james and she's sharing some of her lawyers with the manhattan d.a. right now. can you help us understand the state of play? >> sure, it is complicated and there are two separate investigations. the new york attorney general had been running a civil investigation, an investigation that would end with a lawsuit and she has told us a little bit about what she's interested in and she's interested in five or six different transactions where trump misstated his assets to lower his taxes or to convince a lender he's a better credit risk. she hasn't given us the evidence she has, but that's what she's focused on. the cy vance criminal inquiry whose scope is much larger and it's trump's finances going to 2011 and we don't know what he seized on. >> let me ask you about cy vance, the manhattan d.a. obviously, his term expires at the end of this year. what do you make of that in terms of the timeframe that we're playing here for the possibility of

i think one of the things is that the manhattan district attorney's office has facts. remember cy vance went up to the supreme court and back and up again. under grand jury secrecy rule, you cannot share them. if you are working with another authority, you can do that. i think that's one reason. another thing is to avoid conflicts and turf battle. you would think this actually happens more often, that you would conflict with one another, but it doesn't. it's important in a case like this for the two sides to work together. we don't want to give one witness immunity that's going to be prosecuted by the other authority. you know, it is unusual, but there's nothing about this case that is usual because, you know, you probably need more resources to deal with this. we're talking about an unprecedented criminal case in american history, which would be the prosecution of a former u.s. president. >> yes. totally, totally unprecedented. what do you think -- why do you think the attorney general in new york state, leticia james, is publicly, publicly announcing this criminal in

manhattan district attorney cy vance has convened a grand jury that, should prosecutors bring charges, will in turn decide whether to indict trump executives, including, of course, donald trump himself. that's according to two familiar with the department and one of the washington reporters who broke that story will join me in a minute. some context here is important. the manhattan da's office has been investigatingimpropriety, and that could include falsifying business records as well as tax insurance fraud. a grand jury doesn't necessarily mean that indictments are forthcoming and the trump organization has denied any wrongdoing. trump called this a politically motivated witch hunt. joining us now, "washington post" reporter, david ferenthal, one of the reporters who broke this story and cy vance. david, we'll start with you. help us to put the area of focus on this case and how cy vance, the manhattan d.a., are using millions of documents in his possession as a road map to build this case. >> there has been a lot of secrecy around this investigation, the parts we know and the parts

we know from the manhattan d.a. he said that the statute of limitations on this he thought was effectively the course for a short period of time. he said it would expire soon and he's going to be leaving his post at the end of this year. so in term it is of when next moves may take place here, if either or both of the prosecutors in this case find something that they believe is worthy of charging the former president, his family members and his associates and of the company itself and it is likely that that will happen before the end of this year and we already know that the d.a. had had access to his taxes, that they've been looking into potential tax or bank-related fraud here. so the fact that they are partnering up and that the a.g. may have found something to go from civil to criminal is a significant change. >> he most likely wants to get something done on his watch. katie, we just laid it out. we know what the manhattan d.a. were looking into fraud. do we know what exactly the new york attorney general is loo

elliot, what -- what does it tell you about where manhattan d.a.'s investigation is at? given its office has told one witness to prepare for grand jury testimony? >> they have reached a point in their investigation, that the district attorney believes there is evidence of a crime. you know, it would be responsible for any prosecutor's office to have reached this point, and not believe that there was at least some suggestion that there had been a crime. now, look. in the grand jury, the prosecution has a relatively low bar to clear. it's probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed. which basically, means, in plain language, that it's more likely, than not, that a crime was committed. now, it seems, based on the fact that they are calling evidence and where they are, they probably know more than that. and -- and are calling witnesses to establish that. so, this is beyond the point where they're just poking around, and looking for documents. and i think they're, in all likelihood, on to something. >> couldn't it be possible, though, they just want a witness to

s office is teaming up with the manhattan da's office. now, as far as we can tell, we can't find an instance of when this happened before to get a sense of what the comparison is. in response, trump released a rambling incoherent denial. but it's not clear exactly what the a.g.'s announcement means for trump work. danya perry is both a former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york and it former new york state deputy attorney general who worked out of the very office that released a statement yesterday. david fahrenheit, of course, is the washington post reporter coming from the trump family and his business interest. he was awarded the pulitzer prize for his coverage of donald trump's false charity creams that ultimately led to trump agreeing to shut down his foundation. all right, diet let's start with you as someone who worked in the office. i tend to think of attorney generals offices, or i guess attorney generals offices as largely civil investigations. so what was your reaction when you saw that? what is your unders

it is working with the manhattan district attorney who has been conducting a criminal probe into mr. trump and his company for two years. the state investigation is looking into whether the trump organization falsely reported property values to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits. so far, no comment from the trump organization. >>> our other top story now -- the deadly shooting of andrew brown jr. a north carolina prosecutor will not charge sheriff's deputies who opened fire on the 42-year-old black man. for the first time, the public saw portions of body camera footage showing what happened last month. brown's family called it an execution, and there are calls for the justice department to get involved. jeff pegues has more, but a warning, some of the video might be tough to watch. >> reporter: as they pulled up on the scene, the officers were heavily armed and sitting in the back of a pickup truck. >> go, go, go! >> reporter: andrew brown jr. is behind the wheel of the blue sedan that officers are closing in on. investigators later conclude that brown was not armed. t

the manhattan d.a. has also been moving closer, we know to trump's inner circle including the money man allen weisselberg. he knows a lot about everything donald trump did and wanted done through this trump organization. prosecutors are pressing hard to get him to cooperate. they even subpoenaed a private school where half a million dollars of his grandchildren's tuition was paid for, signed by weisselberg which might seem pretty ordinary, or donald trump himself, which is not. michael cohen definitely turned a lot of people's interest to weisselberg and the way the money worked when he gave that infamous or famous, depending on who you ask, testimony to congress in 2019 before he went to trial saying trump deliberately provided misleading or false valuations in official documents. remember, lying in day-to-day life is not technically a crime. lying to the government, to tax authorities, to anyone in the new york government about what you have and what you paid, that can be criminal. so keep that in min

to me, it signals the manhattan district attorney's office has not yet flipped weisselberg. he really will be an important witness if you are going to make a case. on donald trump. i would say it's a good step, but it's a step to the cooperating witness. and in your florida story about matt gates, that, jimmy, is one where they are even further along. because there, there is clearly going to be a person flipping. that was the other hand of matt gates. that will be a bad day next week for him. that's a prosecutorial move to flip somebody and have them testify the inner workings of a criminal conspiracy. >> i never in my life had possibility of someone not being extradited from one state to another among the 50 states. we run and of time for it tonight and we will carry that one. that case is going to be continued to next week. thank you very much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> you are welcome. >> coming up, i was on the steps of the capital today. and i'm still alive because they were no trump tourists there today. that's where a republican member of congress is now cal

. >> welcome to the manhattan institute of and cast. the state of the administrative state. i am james, senior fellow and director of legal policy for the manhattan institute for policy research and today i am joined by my friend and colleague visiting scholar, richard epstein who, in his day job, professor of law at the nyu school of law where he is the director of the liberal institute and the peter fellow at the hoover institution so richard, thank you for joining me today. both of us wrote book published last year. yours was pre-published in published in littlefield last spring and find came out in september last year, both involving subject. regulation and administrative state. my book was entitled on elected, how unaccountable elites is governing america and richards is entitled morality of administrative law in each of these books offer a detailed account of the evolution of the current state of the american regulatory apparatus and problems with it. together, both argued the administrative state is at odds with other principles we hold dear. professor epstein focuses

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. >>> manhattan's district attorney who is leading the criminal probe into former president trump's business dealings has reportedly convened a grand jury that could decide whether to indict him. the investigation centers on whether the trump organization manipulated its real estate portfolio to defraud banks or obtain illegal tax benefits. sa"ttinuion leased a statement of the greatest witch hunt in american history. this is purely political and an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported me in the presidential election." >>> republican leaders are condemning one of their own.07tb her latest comments comparing j& mask wearing to the treatment of nikole killion has the latest.ia ve marjoriçwaylor greene caused anx uproar by outrageously comparing covid safety rules to the vaccated employees get a ote, vaccination logo like the nazis forced jewish people to wear a gold star. the georgia congresswoman doubled down after these comments last week about mask mandates in the house that she violated. >> we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star,