impatient, i know the audience, i know i speak for them when i say, i have been waiting all day for you to explain to me what is going on on the calendar of the manhattan grand jury? i ll tell you, lawrence, this delay as you said in the intro as was playing for a while. also two things. first of all, the da s office wants to be careful and deliberate before they actually have the grand jury vote. so, to the extent, as we ve talked about, as you ve talked about tonight, one tactic that the president has used successfully, although what neal is saying is becoming increasingly thin with judges, is delay. he s the one who asked the grand jury about bob castella. to the extent that, maybe there is some sand thrown in the gears to throw things down, that s one thing. it is not uncommon for the district attorney s office to
to clean up the mess that bob castella made at the beginning of the week? what is happening is that basically a mini trial in the grand jury, which is unusual. grand jury proceedings are usually on their own, much smaller amounts of evidence that that type of the trial. there s no opening statements, no cross examinations, they re just putting on a bare bones case to get over the hurdle of an indictment, which is a much lower standard than a trial when you have to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. but here you re having a little bit of a new trial going on because the grand jury heard from a defense witness, which the defense had a right to request that. the grand jury heard it, and so it s kaavan for a situation where you would want to put on that rebuttal, at least consider putting on rebuttal witnesses if there is some doubt on the information given that the prosecution wants to
think there is a chance. it is a prosecutor doesn t thorough investigation. and decided not to prosecute he has not failed and its obligations and i think that bob costello s testimony if nothing else should cause mr. perez to pause and think, is this the right case. if there are the facts of law. donald trump should be held accountable. and frankly, i don t think this is the case. and beyond a reasonable doubt bob castella s testimony gives the scale in favor of not bringing this case john, thank you very much i appreciate your time. and the context that we bring to this which is so important. out front now ryan goodman, basil smikle, and scott jennings. thank you very much to all of. you karyn, you worked in the manhattan da s office you re very familiar with all of. this you know obviously were there when there was a decision not to go ahead and indict another issues related to donald trump. how much do you think costello could impact the decision on whether or not to indict t
represented steve bannon how do you see - impacting this case in new york? i think, going back to what glenn said, if our prosecutor, and i got the opportunity to take bob castella s testimon tomorrow, i would certainl exploit the fact that bo costello is enmeshed in trum world eight ways from sunday he s a longtime associate firm rudy giuliani. as we mentioned, he represented giuliani not onl in the ongoing fulton county investigation, but als represented him in the souther district of new york s ukraine investigation. that s the investigation tha and slow, his involvement with trump world, we haven t even gotten the bannon it s just so deep an long-standing that his credibility could be easil tarnished to so for donald trump to take to truth social today and call bo costello the most importan witness in this case i borderline laughable, give
him for an interview, again, i m not sure but yes, i was asked to make myself available so, the witness, michae cohen, is rebutting. it - bob castella will testify on monday looking into the hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels trump s attorneys asked the da late last night, after trump s surprise social media post protecting his tuesday arrest, we learned that manhattan da - sent a message - assuring them that efforts t intimidate them would not be tolerated. it s not every day about suc an important law enforcement officer feels compelled to ask wage the fears of his staffers republicans continue to defend donald trump and attack alvi bragg, despite there being n charges filed and no indicatio that charges will be filed