former president trump s social media post calling on followers to protest after he suggested that he could be indicted and arrested tomorrow. and at the head of this whole investigation is the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. so who exactly is he? cnn s brynn gingras is out front. reporter: manhattan district attorney alvin bragg cowl uld ae he s recently had reasons to brag. he s the first black person to lead that office. he won a major tax fraud case brought against the trump organization last year. this was a case about lying and cheating. reporter: but now in just his second year of holding office, he may become the first prosecutor to indict a u.s. president. bragg always remained mum on the possibility of criminal charges against donald trump for his role in a hush money scheme. the last thing i want to do is run afoul of any rules or in any way negatively impact our
after putin makes a surprise trip inside ukraine. why some are questioning whether the entire thing was staged. and the surviving son of double murderer alex murdaugh speaking out denying he had anything to do with the mysterious death of former classmate as this formerly cold case is busting open tonight. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett, out front tonight, if donald trump s very public prediction comes true, this would be the eve of his impending arrest, but cnn is learning tonight from sources that any arrest would not happen until next week, if trump should be indicted this week. over a hush money scheme involving a porn star when he first ran for president. now, this is a live look outside the new york city courthouse. we do know there was a last ditch attempt today by trump s legal team to keep the former president from being criminally charged. if that charge happens it would be an historic attempt. that person is robert costello, an attorney who s previously
is that this was not on force. we saw all weekend long trump allies and advisers essentially goading desantis into s responding. trump s super pac was sending out a tracker showing all the republicans rallies behind trump and signaling out desantis for not commenting at this time. when desantis got up there, he said that the d.a. was politicized and he vowed not to get involved if this somehow trickled down into florida where they both live. however, he didn t fully support trump and he seemed to take a jab at him when he said this. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. i just i can t speak to that. i have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some soros d.a., okay? he s trying to do a political spectacle, he s trying to virtue
mr. trump has the right to have the grand jury hear exculpatory evidence, let them be an independent body, weigh it all, and vote, and apply the law equally to him the way they would to anybody else. but let me say, erin, if you re going to compare the credibility of michael cohen and bob costello, that s not even worth a discussion. but you know, michael cohen is a defense lawyer s dream as a witness. i mean, a first year law student could destroy him on cross examination, and there s not a camera he doesn t love. he s on every tv show in the world, and i don t criticize the media or the public for wanting to hear it, but when i was a prosecutor, if i had a cooperator and they went on every tv show, i would pull their cooperation deal. so let me ask you the bottom line as you see it then, do you think there s any chance that alvin bragg does not indict
including steve bannon and rudy giuliani. he also happens to be a former legal tiadviser to michael cohe who admitted po pto paying out $130,000 to stormy daniels. they appeared at a manhattan county courthouse where a grand jury is neinvestigating that scheme. he appeared at the request of trump s team. he was there for nearly three hours. cohen was available for a rebuttal but ended up not being needed according to his lawyer. the big question is did costello say anything today that would prevent trump from being charged in the scheme. he told the grand jury that trump once told him specifically that trump flat out did not know about the payment. that s what he said at the time, is it true? i don t know. did you tell the grand jury that? yes, i did, but i had to force that into an answer. now, cohen blasted costello for making quote, false statements about him during his