From New York Times, I'm Michael Bolarro. This is the Daily.

Today, of the many charges and lawsuits filed against former President Trump,

perhaps the most personal is playing out in a courtroom in New York City

in a case that could end in him losing control of his best-known buildings and paying

hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. Over the past few days my colleague Joan Abramwich has been inside the courtroom

watching as Trump's children and Trump himself have taken the stand.

It's Wednesday, November 8th.

Jonah, thank you for taking a break in your busy schedule of being in the courtroom.

I'm very happy to be here.

So, Jonah, you spent the past several days in a New York City courtroom where for the first time the adult

sons of Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself have all taken the stand and testified.

And we're going to get to their testimony. But I want to start by asking you to just describe this case because there are so many cases against Donald Trump. This is one of many and it's a civil case, which is probably why I think it's gotten a lot less attention than all the criminal cases against Trump's.

Just tell us about this case.

So this case was brought by New York's attorney general, Letitia James.

James ran for office in 2018 and she ran for office talking about Donald Trump a

lot of the time. Right, she's a Democrat and she made clear he was in her sights.

That's exactly right.

And so she takes office in 2019 and shortly thereafter Michael Cohen, who's a former fixer for Trump he

testifies in front of Congress and I don't know if you remember this kind of from

the fog of the Trump presidency I do but he testifies about some of the conduct that Donald Trump has

undertaken that might be of interest to Congress and that includes

manipulating the values of his property to get favorable loans from banks from insurers.

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