Another story we're covering tonight. The Justice Department said today it's creating a nearly

$1.8 billion fund that could compensate Trump supporters who say they were wrongly investigated

or prosecuted by previous administrations. The announcement came as part of a settlement with President

Trump to drop a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns in 2019.

The news hours Liz Landers asked the president why taxpayers should foot the bill for the new fund.

This is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated.

It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been, in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been destroyed. And they turn out to be right.

Joining us now with more is our justice correspondent, Ali Rogan. So, Ali, let's start with that lawsuit the president had filed against the IRS. What was that about and how is it connected to this fund?

Yes, this was filed earlier this year.

President Trump and members of his family filed this lawsuit $10 billion against the IRS,

alleging that a leak of classified tax returns during his first administration called caused financial

and reputational harm to the Trump family and the Trump organization.

We should note that the leaker was a federal contractor who was currently serving a five-year

prison sentence.

This lawsuit set up an unprecedented situation where the president would

be suing an agency of the government that he leads. And since the DOJ also represents the federal

agencies in courts, this lawsuit would have pitted President Trump suing against, would have pitted President Trump against the Department of Justice

whose agenda the president obviously has helped steer.

And of course, that agenda has included punishing his political adversaries.

So was this announcement today? Was it entirely a surprise?

We had been hearing from Trump lawyers that they were signaling that they wanted to

settle this out of court. There were many open questions, though, about how that would take shape.

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