New York's AG will investigate Trump

She's New York's first black AG — and she just might be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.

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00:00I've got seven sisters and brothers, some made it and some who have not.

00:04The bottom line is what they taught and what they instilled in me each and every day is

00:08that hard work eventually pays off.

00:16He undermines our fundamental rights.

00:18He tramples on our rights and he tramples on the rights of vulnerable and marginalized

00:22populations in this state and in this country.

00:26And he's an illegitimate president.

00:30He's an illegitimate president.

01:00He's an illegitimate president.

01:16Let me be clear.

01:18You cannot pardon yourself out of corruption.

01:21I want to make sure that we close this pardon loophole so that this president doesn't

01:25pardon his friends for crimes committed in New York State.

01:29At a time when Special Prosecutor Mueller is under attack, when every day we read about

01:35scandals of corruption emanating from the tenant of the White House, the attorney general

01:40of the state of New York is uniquely positioned to be the leading force against the national

01:45threat to our fundamental rights.

01:53It's the attorney generals in this country who took down the Muslim ban.

01:57Muslim ban one, two, and three.

01:59It's the attorney generals in this country who took on this administration standing up

02:03for women and reproductive rights.

02:04It's the attorney generals who stood up against this administration on the environment, on

02:08the opioid crisis.

02:09And the list goes on and on and on.

02:11The law has been a tool for progress and inclusion in this nation.

02:15But every day we are reminded that there is no so much at stake and so much work left

02:21to do.

02:22Our crusade is incomplete.

02:24Our business is unfinished.

02:26We have a landscape yet to paint and a history of our own yet to create.