here tonight with reaction. but first, rule and ruin, that s the focus of tonight s angle. of course radical new york prosecutor is trying to take down trump before 2024, duh. this apparent move toward indicting the former president, biden stumbled climbing air force one. rather than focusing on putting away violent criminals, da alvin bragg wants to make a name for himself by squaring off with donald trump on a case that is as pathetic as it is political. bragg made a future trump prosecution the cornerstone as his campaign for da. has the experience with donald trump, i was the chief deputy in the attorney general s office, we sued the trump administration over 100 times. i know how to litigate with him. laura: one little problem for alvin nothing to bragg about, his only path of admission into the trump haters hall of fame is through a sleezeee lawyer and stormy daniels. well today the grand jury got to hear from a man who new michael cohen very well. his adviser, robe
Good morning. It is 10 00 eastern. Im ana cabrera alongside my colleague jose diazbalart with special coverage of Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. And right now, court is back in session with the witness who has already clashed with the judge, returning to the stand. The prosecution just completed its Cross Examination of veteran new york lawyer Robert Costello and so now hes facing questions on redirect from the Defense Attorney. And all this after the judge cleared the courtroom yesterday to Admonish Costello for making comments under his breath, rolling his eyes and staring down the judge. It is already tense in that courtroom today. Lets bring in Yasmin Vossoughian who is outside the courthouse. Also with us, Defense Attorney misty maris. And so, yasmin, so far today, this has been another intense day. What has been going on . Reporter in the last 30 minutes, a lot of intensity to say the least as ana mentioned. Were now in redirect from the defense here on their own witnes
it off until next week, it seems like they are enjoying this drag out of this, more distraction from biden s failures across the board. but the statutes themselves, if i could go to the statutes. sure. laura: perhaps they would be leaning on here. can you explain why these are absurd in this case. 75.05 first. absolutely absurd. 175.05. falsify business records. i don t believe business records will falsified. defraud, what they want to do here is use a novel theory, not just to bring an indictment against an ordinary person, against a president of the united states, unprecedented. makes it a felony under 175.10, the new york penal law, if you committed the falsified business records with the intent to fraud and you did it to try to conceal or commit another crime, which they say here is, we ll did it to conceal a campaign contribution, he did it to effect the campaign. to hillary clinton did hillary
president trump is going to be arraigned tomorrow or indicted tomorrow. now, t week pushing it off till next week. it seems like they re enjoying this. yoout of more u the drag out of. again, more distraction from biden s failures across the board. but the statutes themselves, if i could just go to the statutes . leanin here. that perhaps they would c be leaning on hereanxplain. can you explain why these are absurd in this case? case. 75.05 first. a one seventy five point five first. absolutely absurd. one seventy absuy five point five makes it a misdemeanor with the intent to defraud. 175s to falsify business records. first of all, i don t believe that business records weres use falsified, but secondly, with the intent to defraud and what they want to do here is useavel theo novel theory, na to bring an indictment against presy person, but against the president of the united states . unprecedented makes it a felony under one seventy five point ten .u the new york penalcomm law. to