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
for the manhattan s d.a. s office they should move to manhattan and run for office and when they re the district attorney they can decide what cases get indicted. until then it s up for voters in manhattan to decide whether they think bragg is doing a good job. congress has no business and as kim says, this violates federalism principles. congress has no reason to try to engage in oversight of the duly elected district attorney in a state. they have no authority. bragg knows that and i suspect that he will, you know, just let this one roll off his back and watch them make constitutional fools of themselves. starting to seem like that s what they re doing. charlie, talk to us about what we can expect in the next few days. there s still one more day of the grand jury tomorrow. walk us through what we can anticipate or expect. so one more witness, we think, has to go before the grand jury, the grand jury does meet tomorrow. so that means the if bragg
hi, it s 5:00 in new york.c with the ex-president bracingxd for a potent0■q historic ffice, concerns about possible outbreaks of violence are prevalent and troubling. manhattan criminal s court ando da s office. and new reporting from cbs finds that there has been a significant iífqpáq in threats andxd violent rhetoric onlinelp1 domestic violent extremists as donald trump claims he will bei indicted. that is according to intelligence sources, who also said they have not identified said they have n credible or dio a person÷ or property, but are continuing to monitor for credible specific threats. now domestic vie is lent extremists have warned that prosecutors from the manhattan district attorney s office would cross a red line if trump is
the new york times report, quote, alvin bragg, the emergency district attorney has insisted he does not pay attention to the politics when decides whether to charge someone with a crime. but mr. bragg stated reluctance to consider the political ramifications of his office s decisions has not quelled the storm brewing around him. he now appears poised to become the first prosecutor to indict a former president. the new york times washington here and joyce vance and kim atkins, senior opinion writer from the boston globe all msnbc contributors. charlie, i d like to start with you on this. where do things stand in the investigation as of today? what do you know? well, there needs to be one more witness coming before the grand jury at least, that can t happen until tomorrow. underscoring that when trump announced on saturday that this would all happen today and he d be arrested today, he was just making that up so things remain
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