hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
or in the media.e1 that swáá)r g you deal with in court. what do you make of that defense there? we re hearing husband attorneys are going to echo their client s argument that it nd he client s argument that it did nothing wrong. we can hear he was clearly pressuring the secretary of state and an investigator from the of&ree1 and another recordig and ;r p+e evidence of a third recording. grand jurors heard donald trump callq the late house speaker an session of the georgia legislature to potentially t( overturn his election defeat. i think that all builds a narrative. the third recording could be important for prosecutors because it helps build the narrative by what donald trump was doing was not ane1 isolated incident. it was happening throughout the upperk reallyq quickly, the fact tht there are three recordings that suggest there s a concert issed