Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. There are new developments tonight in several big Trump cases, and I have a lawyer on hand who is breaking some news.

The video you may have already seen glimpses of, although it broke just today, is Donald Trump under oath, this never-before-seen video, new today in a clash that came from a legal case where, and it's important remember the context for all the cliches we hear about Donald Trump's delay tactics and strategy, Donald Trump fought this and lost this.

The video you see on your television screen is something that he spent a long time trying to avoid.

But he lost and cooperated with this New York Attorney General probe.

And here's what he said at the start.

Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool.

I respectfully declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded

to every citizen under the United

States Constitution.

This will be my answer to any further questions.

As for the second part of what he said there, fact check true.

This is a right afforded to people.

We will get into that.

A.G. James drew these answers from him in what

is a civil probe into his finances. This tape is from August. Trump had infamously, memorably,

and now hypocritically attacked others who availed himself of this same right of pleading the fifth.

He went from that to himself pleading the fifth over 400 times

across apparently four frustrating hours. I declined to answer the question. The 2019 statement of

financial condition contained false and misleading valuations and statements. Is that correct?

Same answer.

You knew at the time it was finalized that the year 2019 statement of financial condition

contained false and misleading statements. Is that correct?

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