indictment looms, trump s rhetoric grows more extreme thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system. will be defeated. threats are made against the district attorney. we will not be intimidated by threats, fears rising over what could happen next dangerous he s going to get someone killed. the republican party closes ranks looking to defend trump from possible prosecution. we believe this is a political stunt jeopardy mounts. is this a turning point cnn primetime inside the trump investigations starts now. good evening. i m pamela brown will the force testimony of his own vice president lead to charges against former president donald trump? that is the big question tonight as a federal judge today ruled that mike pence must appear before a grand jury and reveal his conversations with trump in the run up to the capital attack, despite pence s efforts to avoid doing so, and moments, we have new reporting on pence s next step, and you ll hear with the former vice pre
other two. you may need binoculars i m told or telescope. mercury and jupiter dipped below the horizon about 30 minutes after sunset. so you might want to be quick about it tonight is peak viewing for the entire show. luckily if you missed it here in the eastern time zone, astronomers say there will be other chances this friday and also over the coming weeks. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigations starts right now. tonight investigations, closing it evaluating the court s decision . i have nothing to hide. federal judge decides former vice president mike pence must testify in the january 6th investigation. people are pleading with the prosecutor. don t do it. don t do it. it s wrong. manhattan grand jury investigating former president trump and the stormy daniels case here is from new witnesses . mr pecker corroborates what the federal prosecutors said about donald trump. shadow of indictment looms, trump s rhetoric grows more extreme thugs and criminals who ar
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to endorse him, California Republican Duncan Hunter was also indicted for Campaign Finance violations. Noticeably did not mention Michael Cohen by name. I feel badly for both. I must tell you that Paul Manafort is a good man. He was with ronald reagan. He was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that. It doesnt involve me, but i still feel, you know, it is a very sad thing that happened. Nothing to do with russian collusion. Had nothing to do with russian collusion. We continue the witch hunt. Thank you very much. Mr. President , what about
months about who should look at the evidence that was seized from Michael Cohen and how should that process go through and a tremendous amount of media attention, Stormy Daniels was in line. It fel
laura, there s a lot we don t know. but you can bet on this. if this case gets indicted, they re gonna go after michael cohen with a passion. let s take a look. it was legal fees. i was invoiced by my michael cohen, who arranged this on his own with his own money initially took out a loan literally resolve this without the president, knowing so obviously he s trying to say look, it s just going to worry about. it s only him. he was kind of a lone wolf in this. he is no longer affiliated anyway with donald trump. but remember, this is a tactic that is trying to use to give that 10 ft pole. it may not be successful, though, ellie because, of course, they were very tied at the time of this actually happening. it s really important to remember the crime here is not the payment of hush money crime in how they booked that. and so they re going to blame michael cohen. the other thing that we know they re going to do. laura is attack michael cohen s credibility so you want to attack michael co
you can bet on this. if this case gets indicted, they re gonna go after michael cohen with a passion. let s take a look. it was legal fees. i was invoiced by my michael cohen, who arranged this on his own with his own money initially took out a loan literally resolve this without the president, knowing so obviously he s trying to say look, it s just going to worry about. it s only him. he was kind of a lone wolf in this. he is no longer affiliated anyway with donald trump. but remember, this is a tactic that is trying to use to give that 10 ft pole. it may not be successful, ellie because, of course, they were very tied at the time of this actually happening. it s really important to remember the crime here is not the payment of hush money crime in how they booked that. and so they re going to blame michael cohen. the other thing that we know they re going to do. laura is attack michael cohen s credibility so you want to attack michael cohen s credibility. you want to defend michael cu