what i would say is the same team, working with the sam type of professionalism, the same type of team all thei active investigation nbc has news has learned tha he s meeting this weekend to discuss their strategy prosecutors in infected an testify before a grand jur next week but did not issue subpoena at one of trump s lawyer telling them the forme president had no plans to meet with the manhattan distric attorney s office. meantime, nbc also confirm trump s former personal lawyer michael cohen has to testify from the grand jury this monday cohen has says he gave storm daniels $130,000 on trump orders to keep her from coming forwar for the 2016 election. joining me now to discuss msnb legal analyst lisa reuben. lisa, alvin bragg also ver careful very cautious in terms of what he can and cannot say. your sense of what is happenin in an investigation like thi as it appears that things ar coming to a head i think you said it exactl right things are coming to a head michael co
there is a sense of urgency here literally, i think line forsman, prosecution, doj, it s in race the race has slowed this week. alicia, as you said. the judge and the proud boys seditious conspiracy case ha to hit the pause button. what happened was th government mistakenly provided the defense with spreadsheet that inadvertently contained information that they weren supposed to see. including information that might be classified from non related proud boys cases other cases beyond the proud boy investigations did rea error. it s called everybody to cal time out the judge told the defense don t look at this stuff we ll figure this out next week that s unfortunate, because th case was rolling along with very interesting legal theory. which is, the prosecutor said, we want to play thes videotapes of january 6t showing the crowd and th defense said no. you can t show the crowd that s not our guys.
they want to see california as an oasis you see the same kind of moves taking place in othe legislatures in colorado, in illinois, in michigan. i ve said it before on you show, alicia, this really is a new gym crow this is like a period back i american slavery i m not overstating it there it truly is where people are trying to get to free state, that recognize their humanity. and autonomy that wish to allow them to b free i appreciate that you alway remind us that abortion rights are fundamentally about th state of our democracy, as always, thank you for bein with us. coming up, it is the largest bank failure since 2008. how could this happen? what does it mean? with the latest on the silicon valley bank shut down from california but first, national security - frankel who see is here to discuss the latest in the tria in the rise of white sreupmacy across the country stay with us
about, alicia, aren t people that we previously understoo to try to spent serious time with the manhattan da s office during the period of time that this investigation was run b mark comrades who famously resigned and carrie dundee was a former general counsel the office of course you have nbc new reporting that michael cohen trump s turn personal your sense of how useful house substantial that has when yo could be look,, i think michael cohen i an extraordinary useful witnes because he s at the heart he davidson and he is the one who made tha payment, and then trum reimbursed him and discuss tha reimbursements on his record of the trump organization as legal expenses that having been, said the reason michael cohen has bee brought in 20 times is because he is a convicted felon. he pled guilty to federa crimes, he is a person who i not perceived as being the mos
on the advice of counsel meaning, trump is planning t argue, i didn t have an affair with stormy daniels. and, and paying her off i wa only do that michael cohen counseled me to do that is a very risky maneuve on trump s part but it may b one of the only cards he has t play, alicia lisa rubin, my friend, as always thank you for being take the time to be with us now to washington wher the contrast between two major political parties comes into sharp focus this week. well president biden unveile his goals for the upcoming federal budget, republicans on capitol hill double down o investigative chain police a new priority for the house gop, sympathizing with january six defendants congresswoman marjorie taylo greene now leading an effort t investigate the treatment of 1 defendants, being held at jail in washington meantime, house republicans ar pushing forward with their investigation and the so-calle investigation of the federal government a hearing so far, plunging dow our hall of far-