two outcry witnesses, outcry witnesses in my business are the first people a rape victim speaks to. and they can come forward. they re an exception to the heresy rule. and then you have this frame of the case, which is the access hollywood tape, which is i can take whatever i want because i m a star that fits the other two women who were coming forward, who he also sexually assaulted, and then if you add that he is so disrespectful to the jury that he s not even coming, and then one little thing that i don t think people realize that s a real problem in this case for him, and that is there isn t anybody to do the cross-examinations you know, i m not of the belief that joe tacopina is dumb. a lot of people make fun of him. i think he s smart, but he is a bully. the last thing that is needed in this case for trump is a bully cross-examining these three women. i think that s a big liability, and trump s going to be in trouble here there s another thing that seems to be a liability. so
is do some rewriting of history. and one of the things they re trying to do is run their committees in a way that were as effective as the way the january 6th committee did. but it s going to be almost impossible to replicate. one of the big mistakes that they made, and i think most of them would acknowledge in retrospect is by boycotting the january 6th committee, they have they took themselves out of the game so to speak. so they could not interrupt the proceedings or do cross-examinations of witnesses live on television or anything like that. and so now they re trying to run their own investigative hearings, you can see democrats crossing the witnesses when they have the chance to do so, or, you know, making their point of view known and it s not having to date the same success that the january 6th committee did. and frankly, they haven t even come close to any of the investigative steps, the number of witnesses brought in, the
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
moving on to a vote on a possible indictment. they clearly feel whatever, costello said monday. change the dynamic here and they need to do a little repair. alright paula reid, stay with us. i want to bring in cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor lee hoenig. his newest book is untouchable. how powerful people get away with it. also cnn senior political commentator scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush so elliot, the grand jury didn t meet today. in his paula reported that diaz way in bringing michael cohen back. what does that tell you about where this may be going? this is a warning sign for prosecutors. and here s why, for the past many weeks, this has been a completely one side. do you show? that s how grand juries work. this has been the prosecutors putting their witnesses in front of the grand jurors asking their questions. no defense lawyers, no cross examinations. now there s a unique feature of new york state law that says a defe
elliot, the grand jury didn t meet today. in his paula reported the ds wain bringing michael cohen back. what does that tell you about where this may be going? this is a warning sign for prosecutors. and here s why, for the past many weeks, this has been a completely one side. do you show? that s how grand juries work. this has been the prosecutors putting their witnesses in front of the grand jurors asking their questions. no defense lawyers, no cross examinations. now there s a unique feature of new york state law that says a defendant potential defendant can offer his own evidence trump s team took that they put in one witness this robert costello and all of sudden prosecutors are backtracking. and they re wondering, do we need to report this guy? if they believe costello did no damage to their case, they d say we re good. we don t need to rebut him and the fact that they re considering this is a real problem. was the grand jury is the easy part. grand juries cakewalk for prosecutor