john: great to be back. i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the possible arrest related to a hush money payment made to stormy daniels, it happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. the manhattan district attorney s office has been investigating the case for years. a grand jury is reportedly on the verge of bringing charges. dana: jury still has to hear from one more witness. that will be a one-time legal advisor to president trump s former attorney michael cohen expected to rebut cohen who has been a key witness against trump. john: calling into question the timing of the arrest. republicans arguing the whole thing is political. it s the weakest case out there. trying to make a miss demeanor a felony. timeline doesn t work. too long past and doing it after a person for political purposes. somebody putting their thumb on the scale simply because they don t agree with somebody else s political view. that s what s wrong and that s what infuriates people. t
private while i cope with their deaths and my father s incarceration. he pushed back on speculation regarding the smith case saying these baseless rumors of my involvement with steven and his death are false. my heart goes out to the smith family. through an online fundraise than campaign relatives of smith are doing an autopsy. she writes thank you for not allowing steven s story to be swept under a rug. we ll provide updates along the way. dana, skeptics of the initial hit and run theory say there was no clear evidence of any vehicle impact. no obvious debris. the victim s clothes were intact suggesting he wasn t dragged but did have a massive head injury which they believe was caused by something other than a vehicle impact. dana. dana: fascinating.