Banfield

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Banfield episodes

  • Should Trump worry after his family business, CFO are indicted on fraud charges? Experts weigh in
    Federal officials announced multiple felony charges made against the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, who was walked out in handcuffs Thursday. While it does not include the name "Donald J. Trump on the indictment," the array of charges unsealed in a Manhattan court strikes very close to home. Weisselberg and the Trump family business both pleaded “not guilty” to multiple counts of fraud, and grand larceny in Weisselberg's case, stemming from what the Manhattan D.A.'s office calls a "sweeping and audacious" scheme to avoid paying taxes on bonuses and company perks. The former president calls the charges a “political witch hunt.” But what could come next?
    A panel of experts weighs in, from Jennifer Weisselberg, the CFO’s former daughter-in-law, as well as criminal defense and criminal lawyer Mark O'Mara, Judge Glenda Hatchett, and former U.S. Attorney and current podcast host Harry Litman.
    Plus, the latest on the release of Bill Cosby and the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida.
    44 min
  • Why Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned; Larry Wilmore on Cosby and the Constitution
    The ruling that seemed to come out of nowhere today, throwing-out Bill Cosby's conviction on three counts of sexual assault and sending him home a free man, boils down to one simple point: the prosecutor used Cosby's own words against him, after the previous prosecutor promised Cosby he wouldn't. And so after three years in a maximum-security prison near Philadelphia, the entertainer once considered as wholesome as Jello pudding stepped into the sunshine looking every bit his 83 years and not saying a word, even while surrounded by jubilant lawyers. An expert panel explains the ruling, including: Tom Mesereau, a criminal defense attorney whose former clients include Michael Jackson, Robert Blake and Bill Cosby; Tanya Acker. a former litigator who now appears on TV's Hot Bench; and Lisa Bloom, a lawyer and legal commentator who represented one of Cosby's accusers in a defamation case.
    And later, comedian Larry Wilmore looks at the history of Cosby's case and the importance of the constitutional protections which ultimately led to his release.
    41 min
  • Samantha Bee on comedy in post-Trump era
    A hero to some and an annoyance to others, when Samantha Bee gets you in her sights: watch out. For five years on her show “Full Frontal” and another 12 on “The Daily Show,” Bee has been comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. She looks back at her career and shares why she took her show from the backyard (thanks to Covid) to Rwanda.
    23 min
  • Son of woman missing in condo collapse speaks out
    It’s day six and hope is dimming for the families with a loved one still missing in the Surfside condo collapse The son of a woman still missing after the collapse shares her story. Then, a professor who testified before Congress after 9/11 weighs in on what could have caused the collapse.
    22 min
  • A 9/11 survivor's story of being rescued from the rubble
    After nearly two days of painstaking searches of the pancaked rubble that was once a Surfside, Florida condo complex, it’s hard not to compare the scene to Ground Zero in New York after the 9/11 attacks. A trapped survivor shares the experience of waiting for his rescue.
    28 min

About Banfield

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Award-winning veteran journalist Ashleigh Banfield hosts of a new hourlong news and talk show, “Banfield.” Airing weeknights at 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT on NewsNation, the show offers in-depth coverage…