payments. in particular, and as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with, and at the direction of, individual donald trump. that sentencing memo also said, cohen s crimes are particularly serious because they were committed on the eve of a presidential election, and they were intended to affect that election. leading off our discussion is former chief of the criminal division and the district of new york, he s a professor of practice at nyu law school and msnbc legal analyst, also with us, charles coleman, former federal prosecutor and former senior assistant district attorney for brooklyn new york is now a civil rights attorney at msnbc legal analyst. andrew weizmann what do you make of what we have learned from attorney costello? you know it is hard to know exactly what happened in the grand jury but you sort of know for a fact that this wasn t something that bothered the manhattan district attorneys because they, at least toda
at the direction of, individual donald trump. that sentencing memo also said, cohen s crimes are particularly serious because they were committed on the eve of a presidential election, and they were intended to affect that election. leading off our discussion is former chief of the criminal division and the district of new york, he s a professor of practice at nyu law school and msnbc legal analyst, also with us, charles coleman, former federal prosecutor and former senior assistant district attorney for brooklyn new york is now a civil rights attorney at msnbc legal analyst. andrew weizmann what do you make of what we have learned from attorney costello? you know it is hard to know exactly what happened in the grand jury but you sort of know for a fact that this wasn t
monday. what is the latest on where this case stands? reporter: cohen says that he was asked to appear as a rebuttal witness if the grand jury hears from his former attorney costello. cohen served three years in prison for his role in this case and in vocal opposition of the former president since. jericka? thank you. now to the latest bank crisis. today swiss banking giant ubs agreed to a deal to credit suisse. president vladimir putin made surprise visits to two russian occupied parts of ukraine this weekend, including the city of mare mariupol.
everything you need to kno about the radical left in this country. it feels like politically-charged prosecutio here, and for my part, i jus feel like it s not what th american people want to see. that s where we begin wit former u.s. attorney joyce vance, co-host of the hashtag sisters in law podcast. and charlie savage, washington correspondent for the new york times. they are both msnb contributors i want to start with you joyce. you have trump continuing with a social media tirade this afternoon, predicted the testimony tomorrow with bo costello will, quote, be conclusive and irrefutable let s walk through, who is costello, what can we expect i court tomorrow interestingly enough, bob costello represented michael cohen briefly at one point i time and you ll recall and w discussed in the past that there was this moment wher there was a conversation about
whether costello saw a pardo on behalf of michael cohen but they had a parting of th ways and apparently the reason that the trump team wants to have costello in front of this grand jury before they vote on an indictment is because the think he can test that o michael cohen s credibility. this suggests that michael cohen is a key witness for the manhattan da s case, n surprise there, and new york has this relatively unusua procedure where someone who is under consideration for charge can testify trump decided no to, but now he s found someone to testify for him apparently, his goal is to keep the gran jury from indicting this suggests that he believes it s a serious prospect i was on earlier with their co-host, barb mcquade, and w were talking through the possibility of the talent yo have donald trump withou evidence saying that tuesday i the day she argued that did no even work out by her