“A stunning reversal”

Deadline: White House

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News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the brand new video released by New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office showing the deposition of the former president, how House Republicans are holding the nation’s economy hostage while kicking investigations into their political enemies into gear, the latest on Congressman George Santos and more. Joined by: Andrew Weissmann, Harry Litman, David Fahrenthold, Katty Kay, Tim Miller, Ali Vitali, Pete Strzok, Miles Taylor, Antonia Hylton and Rep. Stacey Plaskett.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Forecock here in Washington.
0:07.4	It is a stunning reversal even by the standards of Donald Trump, a disgraced ex-president.
0:12.7	The man who once said that pleading the fifth was for the mob, an ass quote, if you're innocent,
0:18.2	why are you taking the fifth amendment?
0:19.6	Well, best forward six years.
0:21.8	He ended up telling investigators this, quote, anyone in my position not taking the fifth
0:26.9	would be an absolute fool.
0:28.5	Brand new video released by the New York Attorney General's office shows a scene team Trump
0:33.3	has worked for many years to avoid.
0:36.0	Video of his deposition shows Donald Trump under oath pleading the fifth more than 400 times
0:41.8	in the AG's probe into the business practices of the Trump org.
0:45.2	It begins with this exchange between Trump and AG-Tish James.
0:49.8	Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include
0:57.8	a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action.
1:01.2	Do you understand that?
1:03.2	I think.
1:04.2	Is that yes?
1:06.2	I don't know what I did wrong, but the answer is yes, I do understand.
1:12.8	I don't know what I did wrong.
1:14.8	Donald Trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats of the same
1:19.6	many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we've heard from him for years now that he's
1:25.7	the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor blah, blah.
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