rebuttal witness on monday now, this morning i receive a whole slew of phone calls, from journalists asking me i i m going to be back to th da s office tomorrow, as a rebuttal witness to whoever it is that they re bringing they re tomorrow whether it before the grand jury or it just to meet with them for a interview i m not sure but, ye i was asked to make myself available. the witness michael cohen s rebutting, nbc news ha confirmed that attorney, bob costello, who was once a legal adviser to michael cohen wil testify on monday before the grand jury looking into th 2016 hush money payments, made to adult them star, stormy daniels. trump s attorney is, asked the da for bob costello, t testify. late last night after trump surprise social media post predicted his tuesday arrest we learned that manhattan da alvin bragg, sent a message to his offices employee assuring, them that efforts to intimidate them would not be tolerated. it s not every day that such a important log
rebuttal witness on monday now, this morning i receive a whole slew of phone calls, from journalists asking me i i m going to be back to th da s office tomorrow, as a rebuttal witness to whoever it is that they re bringing they re tomorrow whether it before the grand jury or it just to meet with them for a interview i m not sure but, ye i was asked to make myself available. the witness michael cohen s rebutting, nbc news ha confirmed that attorney, bob costello, who was once a legal adviser to michael cohen wil testify on monday before the grand jury looking into th 2016 hush money payments, made to adult them star, stormy daniels. trump s attorney is, asked the da for bob costello, t testify. late last night after trump surprise social media post predicted his tuesday arrest
alvin bragg is simply followin legal procedure here in trump case bob costello reportedly i coming in tomorrow, not at the request of the manhattan da office but at the request of trump attorney, there is a provision of new york s criminal procedure law, that allows defendants not only to ask for notice when they might becom the subject of an indictment and to appear themselves, bu to also make a similar request when they are the subject of the criminal, charge are they re about to become th subject of criminal charges. they can make that request t have a witness on their behalf come in. in terms of what mike pence is saying, that this is politically, charged, again al go back to what you said in th introduction this is politically-charged in part because of donald trump s own making not because of what he s saying on social media. but because he and his legal team inserted bob costello int the grand jury proceedings tha
lisa rubin, and msnbc lega honest, david cay johnston visiting lecturer at college o law, and glenn kirschner former federal prosecutor an msnbc legal analyst. great to have all three of you with us. glenn, let start with you. first, let me get your reactio to this news we got today. about tomorrow s grandeu schedule, michael cohe standing as a rebuttal witness for bob costello who s also cohen s forme lawyer how do you see that playing out? what s at play here? it doesn t surprise me, ayman, that they may b inviting michael cohen back to shed some light on what bo costello said. at one point in time whe michael cohen was thinking about basically flipping breaking away from donald trump, beginning to tell the trut about his own crimes, th crimes of donald trump bob costello was dispatched, t try to keep michael cohen back into the fold. all tell, you if i were prosecutor and i got to di into a guy like bob costello i the grand jury, boy, i have
nowhere. and muddy the water. he wants to have a very clea case, i ve watched cases particularly when i wrote abou great lane theories, ago in th l.a. times or the failure of police t interview every witness, at car crash, or a little boy was killed, resulted in acquittal. because witnesses came forward with - da wasn t prepared for , so pointed out tha costello also represents rud giuliani in the fall and count investigation, and he s also representing steve bannon, how do you see costello involvement in trump s legal troubles impacting this case i new york i think going back to wha glenn, said if i were prosecutor and i got the opportunity to take bob this tell us testimony tomorrow, i certainly exploit the fact tha bob costello is a message an trump, world eight ways from sunday he s a longtime associate of rudy giuliani, as you, mentioned he s representin giuliani not only in the ongoing fulton count investigation, but als