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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s arrival to the first day of the New York Attorney General fraud trial where Trump is a civil defendant. Trump held a press conference where he admitted to the fraud he has been accused of in the lawsuit.

The trial comes after the judge ruled that former President Donald Trump committed fraud by repeatedly inflating the value of some of his properties and exaggerating his net worth by billions.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump arrives for trial in New York calling it 'a scam' and 'an attempt to hurt me in an election.'

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins Jen Psaki to discuss the start of Trump's New York civil fraud trial. Cohen, on AG Tish James' witness list, will attend the opening of the trial. Cohen tells Psaki that the civil fraud trial is a "deathblow to Donald." He adds, "I can tell you this has always been his biggest fear. That he would lose all of his money and he would no longer be considered the mega-billionare that he tried to portray himself as."

The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went to trial Monday, with New York state lawyers vowing to hold him accountable while he denounced the case as a politically motivated "scam." Story

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House Republicans began hearings for the controversial impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), a member of the Oversight Committee and former Lead Counsel during the first Trump impeachment inquiry, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss Biden’s impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill. “This is so clearly part of a pattern directed by Donald Trump to distract from his own criminal indictments to even the score against his future political opponent,” Goldman says. “We are wasting our time on a sham impeachment when the House Republicans are barreling us down a rabbit hole into a government shutdown where millions and millions of Americans will be negatively affected.”

Donald Trump and his sons Don Jr. and Eric will be among the witnesses in next week's $250 million civil fraud trial against the former president and his companies, new court filings show. Trump and his two oldest sons were named on witness lists filed Thursday by lawyers for the Trumps and New York Attorney General Letitia James' office, which alleges the Trumps have been wildly exaggerating their business assets for years.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Democrats expertly exposed that Republicans were acted as puppets of Donald Trump during the impeachment hearing of President Biden.

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Tensions erupted as House Republicans met behind closed doors, the latest sign of deep divisions and infighting as the House GOP conference has failed to coalesce around a plan to avert a shutdown. GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz and Speaker Kevin McCarthy got into a testy exchange during the meeting, according to a source in the room.

Lawmakers remain deeply divided on a spending bill to fund the government with a shutdown just three days away. Right-wing Republicans in the House have pledged to oust Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker if he brings bipartisan legislation to the floor, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he should do it anyway. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has more.

Jonathan Turley, a GOP witness at the House's first impeachment inquiry hearing, said he did not believe the current evidence against President Biden would warrant articles of impeachment but believed an inquiry was needed. NBC News' Ken Dilanian reports on the hearing and the line of questioning from both parties.

The rivals of Donald Trump took direct aim at the former U.S. president at the second Republican presidential debate for not attending the event on Wednesday. Trump has skipped both Republican primary debates and has chosen instead to campaign.

Donald Trump weighed heavy on a chaotic second Republican presidential debate with his rivals hitting out at his absence and clashing with each other, while the former president was far away in a battleground state wooing blue collar voters. Trump thinks he is so far ahead in the race that he does not need to debate it out. Is this strategy working out for him? Palki Sharma tells you.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s opposition to Donald Trump’s latest motion seeking to delay the proceedings before Judge Aileen Cannon.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a brilliant legal mind, who conducts some of the best cross-examinations of the Republican nonsense.

Seven presidential hopefuls took the stage at the Reagan Presidential Library, going after each other without former President Donald Trump present.