district attorney s office tomorrow cohen spoken to prosecutor almost two dozen times and he says that will be going in - testimony. whether it s before the grand jury, or it s just t meet with them for an interview, again, i m not sure. but yes, i was asked to make myself available and to be at the da s office tomorrow, as a rebutta witness. and nbc s learned the witness counting michael cornice as former legal adviser, robert costello. stella previously represente steve bannon and rudy giuliani costello says the trump s lega team asked him to testify. the manhattan da has decline to comment, the office i already preparing for unrest making sure staff, after trump s call for protests, and an internal email obtained by nbc the district attorney writin quote, please know that your safety is our top priority we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office, o threaten the rule of law new york federal authorities are also o alert to specially as trum repeats the rhetori
plus, an update on the other investigations he s facing and were economic for 2024 then, an arrest warrant good evening, i am alici menendez in for stephani ruhle. we may be days away, but we re finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusively that local state and federal law enforcement is preparing for a possible indictment as early as nex week five senior officials to nbc that they ve conducted preliminary security assessments and assess the potential security plan. here is more no charges have bee announced, but behind th scenes, officials are focusing on how to secure the are around the criminal cour building in norman and for wha could be an unprecedente moment, a former president i court arranged before a judge. nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved, all hav declined to comment. the crux of the grand jury investigation, it 130,00 dollar payment that cohen made to stormy daniels bef
he d have as mugshot taken he d have his cheek swab for dna. because it s a felony charge and put into a database. he then appear in court, where the charges would be read, he be apprized of the potential penalty, he d be asked as an initial plea, he can alway change it later. and there be the matter of detention or bond. people are detained if there are a risk of flight, or a danger to harm physically, individuals in the community i seems unlikely that donald trump would be found to either of those things you might be a danger but not that kind of danger. and likely released on bon with the requirement that he come back as required for cour dates. a lot of questioning whethe or not this is true, a lot o questions about timeline kadia, the thing we know, th thing we can wrap our arms around is actual factual happenings the way that republicans are responding to. this you reference speaker mccarthy he s attacked the manhatta investigation as quote political vengeance agains trump s.
jury doing a summation presenting a propose indictment, and allowing the with - elaborate. i guess all that could happe tomorrow, but it seems mor likely that they would need an additional day i think i ve seen reports of the surrender even sitting o mondays and wednesdays it might be that this doesn happen on tuesday. but later in the week barr - not at all if donald trump is charged, my guess is what would happen because this is not a violen case, it s not a case wher there is a serious concern, don t think about risk o flight outside of the united states what s likely to happen is tha the prosecutors would call donald trump s lawyer, say he been indicted, he needs to appear in court. and his first opportunity, house tomorrow and we can t appear by our deadline, will come arrest him is he willing to self surrender? i m sure his lawyer will say yes, please don t run arrest him on the day you asked whatever day that happens to be, tuesday, wednesday, whatever day that is. he d self
team is acting robert costello to take the stand at the last-minute? it s an interesting strategy, isn t it, alicia donald trump had an opportunit to come testify, they declined that opportunity of, course anything he sai there could be used agains him. but having someone else anothe third party come in and testif to things might be able to kee some distance from trump unselfish. i don t know whether he s gonn say. it sounds like perhaps he gonna say things that migh discredit michael cohen. which i based on the fact that michael cohen says that he i going to testify also in a rebuttal this may be at the heart of th case it may be a peripheral matter. and ultimately the grand jur make a decision whether they think this changes their vie as to probable cause whe they re asked to side whethe to issue an indictment barbed, to, questions wha will it mean for cohen to ac as a rebuttal witness walk u through that and there was somethin interesting that cohen sai earlier today with alex,