standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn t have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he s a convicted perjurer. that s robert costello after testifying in manhattan yesterday, and he could be the last witness the grand jury hears from before voting on an indictment for the former president. we ll break down what s next in the case in just a moment. meanwhile, more members of the oath keepers are held accountable for the violence on january 6th. and also ahead, what we re learning about the first face-to-face meeting between chinese president xi jinping and russia s vladimir putin since the invasion began. began good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning in new york city, and the manhattan district attorney s office ahead of a possible criminal indict
early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, i can t speak to that. right. ouch. left hook. yeah. you know, also, i can t answer any questions about playboy stars. i can t answer those questions. oh, and i know nothing about having businesses that go bankrupt after you inherit $400 million from your father. i can t speak to blowing that money that quickly. can t speak to being creepy. come on now. come on. boy, that was quite the defense, wasn t it, willie? it was. it actually was the first time really with any strength we ve seen governor desantis speak out. i guess that was indirect. and amid some other things. it quickly spun to an attack on the investigation, an attack on the manhattan district attorney, as a soros-backed leftist, everything you expect, but he dipped his toe in the trump criticism. i saw it. let s hear
cohen was discredited from his own legal adviser, robert cos costello. take a look. i just spent two hours or so testifying before the grand jury at downtown manhattan. i got my point across although it was clear to me that the manhattan da s office did not want to get to the truth. i need to explain that a little bit. i called them up after i saw michael cohen on tv, stating things he said he was going to tell the grand jury and had told the grand jury. it was contrary to what he told us when we represented him in april of 2018. so, i m siting at home watching these lies and i said i got to do something about it. i don t represent donald trump, but i do stand for justice. i have a legal obligation to inform both sides. that s what i did. so, what does this testimony actually means for the case going forward? in just a moment, we ll review the horrendous track record from new york s leftest sorrel funded and alvin brag. joining us now on more of what we can expect this we
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anti-semitic bile on social media. calling alvin bragg a soros-backed animal, who just doesn t care about right or wrong, no matter how many people are hurt. adding, this is no legal system, this is a gestapo, this is russia and china, but worse, because it s weird, because i thought trump loved russia. and calling a black district attorney an animal and invoking george soros, rooted in anti-semitism, trump accused bragg of doing the work of the devil, and in a nod to the kind of violence he s already tried to incite, by telling his supporters to protest. he shared a photo of him holding a baseball bat next to a photo of district attorney bragg. clear indication that the pressure is getting to him. trump called for the remoal of all of the officials behind all the investigations raining down on him. not just bragg, but letitia james investigating his business practices in a civil case. fulton county georgia district