and he makes the case that it was an effort to silence a defamatory story against him the question here is what has the grand jury heard from witnesses and what evidence have they seen? what does this all signal about where the manhattan d.a. s investigation currently stands it signals they re at the end of the road with respect to the grand jury investigation a couple of data points on that, first of all, michael cohen is obviously the most important witness. he is in a very real sense a coconspirator with donald trump in these hush money payments to stormy daniels we heard a lot about stormy daniels. she in my smestimation is a less important witness. it s about the criminal deal michael cohen and donald trump struck together and that michael cohen then implemented at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. the other important data point is the prosecutors invited donald trump to appear before the grand jury they couldn t subpoena him
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classified documents at his home. there s only conjecture and various competing claims. but trump s former attorney and so-called fixer michael cohen says he thinks he knows why. donald had no right to take those documents. those documents don t belong to him, they belong to the american people, and they belong with the national archive. every president over the last 50, 60 years has complied with exactly the national archive request for old documents to be stored there, not at their private residence. now, i m not talking about the love letters from kim jong-un or the love letters from vladimir putin or erdogan or any of the other dictate there s donald trump decided befriend. i m talking about sensitive, classified information. and really the question is not so much what the documents are, but why donald had them there? and i ve been very forthright when i turn around and say, i believe donald was going to use this as a get out of jail free
card. i think he was going to look to ultimately extort america in order to prevent them from incarcerating him, or at least indicting him. cohen worked closely with trump for more than a decade and said he absolutely 100% believes trump was capable of using top secret documents as a shield from prosecution. new york city is seeing an influx of migrants as the new school year is set to begin. many of them spanish speaking. this as the governor of texas sends migrants to the big apple in a bid to criticize white house immigration policies. cnn s jean casarez looks at what the city is doing to welcome the new arrivals and what it s calling project open arms. reporter: the project is called open arms and we want to explain to everyone exactly what is happening. as the buses arrive to port authority in new york city, which is really the bus terminal, they are met as they get off the bus and they are taken to the first station where they can get clothes, anything they may need.
into trump s businesses. trump s former person attorney and so-called fixer michael cohen said the manhattan d.a. returned documents he submitted as documents. here s how he explains it to katie phang this morning. the fact they returned this box of documents that i had provided, which in and of itself is a road map to an absolute indictment and prosecution of not just donald but the children, the organization, allen weisselberg as well, the fact they returned it to me is to me a clear indication that the case is not going to go forward. all right, let s talk about this. a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney joining me now. thank you so much for joining us on this. give me what that says to you. tell me what that says to you if in fact they have returned this box of evidence now to michael cohen. well, i can definitely see why there s an argument to be made at the d.a. alvin bragg is no longer interested in pursuing