Tonight on 360, new reporting that the President is asking the Justice Department to pay

him nearly a quarter billion dollars in taxpayer money for prosecuting him.

One catch, though, top justice officials have to sign off on it.

The good news for the President, he appointed them, and won his former defense attorney in the case.

Also breaking news, the top presidential pick to lead the

office of special counsel who allegedly privately admitted having a, quote, Nazi streak,

has just backed out of a Senate confirmation hearing after racist and offensive messages,

including that Nazi one, surfaced. And later, Epstein survivor, Virginia Jeffreys,

harrowing story of abuse at the hands of Jeffrey

Epstein and Galane Maxwell, in my conversation with the author who helped her tell it.

Good evening.

Thanks for joining us.

There is a fortune to be made in cutting out the middleman, and tonight the President of the United

States has discovered perhaps the ultimate way to do just that.

The New York Times was the first to report it. The headline reads,

Trump said to demand Justice Department pay him $230 million for past cases. He wants nearly a quarter

billion dollars in taxpayer money. According to the Times report, the president is trying to get it

through a pair of administrative claims seeking damages from the government for purported

violations of his rights, first during the Robert Mueller Russian election interference

investigation, and then the search and subsequent prosecution of him over classified documents

he kept at Mar-Lago, most notably in a bathroom and a ballroom.

Now, according to the Times, he's accusing the FBI of violating his privacy in the search

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