also doesn t want to create so much distance that he turns of trump s base, talk to me wha you heard. and if you think it s a sign that things are shifting on th trail? 100 percent, elise, yeah we know what it looks like we know that in order t stay well within the trump circle and for trump supporter to back republicans. they need to tell a line o making sure they can - denounce any wrongdoin especially as it relates t january six. at the same, time they can bac up and call this a witch hunt. even earlier this week when we heard from marjorie taylor greene, see any republicans wh support this prosecution o trump, or do not make it clear that they stand with him, will be punished. words exactly used mike pence is a response, it s an exact example of a lot of reactions we got this week it isn t necessarily everyon pushing to say, trump was wron on january six and he s gonna be wrong fo whatever happens after the indictment, if there is one. the same time, they need to say,
breaking news we ve gotten fro our colleague, john ovett wnbc the security preparation happening in around new york city ahead of this week. he reports that there is a agency police and security meeting planned for tomorrow monday in the case of a trump indictment is possibly hande down this week he also reports that two nyp official says the nypd had meetings today to discuss th possible security plans in cas an indictment is handed down of course, in case being the important word he says that any plan woul involve security around th perimeter of the courthouse, and several hundreds o additional officers availabl to help manage protest, no just right there in th courthouse, but other hotspots they call them around new york city, including trump tower. which is always a hotbed for protests because all eyes are gonna be new york city starting tomorro as you mentioned, robert costello the legal adviser former legal adviser to michae cohen, he s not a househol
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,
jeffries says that won t stand in the way of bipartisanship take a listen. we ve had a positive, forward-looking relationship that doesn t mean that w aren t gonna strongly disagree with each other. as we have with respect to the former twice impeached president of united states o america. but we can agree to disagree without being disagreeable and always try to find commo ground here s the thing, kadia this is the republican party who s most interested in their weaponization of governmen committee. casting doubts on a federa government agency. it does feel like it actuall does complicate things, a trum indictment, as it relates to congress trying to get done there lon list of to do s. we re thinking about all th resources that will be put behind this we knew that when - election happened. the question was what ar
it s gonna descend all o america into further chaos not what we need at all. alvin bragg is doing is wrong, he should be going after donal trump, period. a viable question for the american people. as whether or not you have a progressive prosecutor using the justice system to go out political enemies. for a political splash and that seems to be the cas here with the manhattan da. that repeats what we hear from trump, it repeats what we heard from mccarthy, it and they re repeating th talking point. i wonder how you think a possible indictment landin with the gop vase given there s an ongoin conversation about his electability i think it s important fo us to mention that you canno indict someone for crimes. because you are worried that i will help them that s political too i think it s important to poin this out [inaudible