testify in an investigation into a hush money scheme involving stormy daniels. that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. potential defendants are required to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury weigh anything charges. it charged, trump would become the first former president to be indicted. but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based opt this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story with the national inquirer. but the tabloid s publisher was a trump friend who instead h helped broker a deal with the lawyer. i long thought it was the weakness of the trump investigations. first the events of january 6th. the mishandling of documents, the election interference including the so-called perfect phone call to secretary of state and fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland a
stormy daniels that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. they re required by law to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury. if charged, trump would be the first former president to be indicted, but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based on this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story of an affair with trump, but the publisher was a trump friend, who instead helped broker a deal with michael cohen, in which she was paid for silence. i ve thought it was the weakest of the trump investigations which generally fall into four buckets. first, the events of january 6th. second, the mishandling of government documents. third, the fulton county da investigation, including the phone call to brad raffensperger. fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland appointed jack smith to loo
u.s. believes that china may give the go-ahead on lethal aid to vladimir putin. taking a question from our own peter doocy about how biden is viewed by xi and putin. specific to these two leaders, you think putin and xi fear president biden? you d have to ask them whether they fear or not. it is not about fear. it s about president biden advancing our foreign policy goals around the world. it s about president biden revi revitalizing partnerships. that s what we re focused on. martha: with that, we bring in republican senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. she s traveled to taiwan in the past. she was there in the past. always a bold move for a u.s. lawmaker to travel to taiwan. your thoughts on what we watched in this briefing and john kirby s explanation as these two meet. perception is reality. when they look at joe biden, they see someone who is weak, who i think they believe is compromised. he is not going after them. he doesn t go after them on great power com
a.m. out we i m lipid see riser at msnbc headquarters in new york heightened anticipation as we watch for a potentially unprecedented decision from a new york grand jury about whether to indict trump. his former fixer, michael cohen, could head back to the grand jury today as a rebuttal witness. that s because they re about to hear from a different unexpected witness today, robert costello, michael cohen s former legal adviser. looming over the decision, the former president s statement over the weekend that he expects to be arrested tomorrow. with uncertainly swirling, prominent republicans including the speaker of the house are coming to his defense. it doesn t matter what side of the issue you re on it doesn t matter if this was president trump or if this was a democrat there should be equal justice in america, and stop going after people because you have political differences. also this hour, a high-stakes meeting in moscow between chinese leader xi jinping and russia
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