hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
30 criminal charges over alleged hush money payments. w pe wait to see the indictment. former president is expectedarra to be arraigned next tuesday. sources telling fox heg shot will have his mug shot and fingerprints taken but will not be handcuffed. trump s attorney vowinotg to fight back .w you know, when you stretch o the law to get someone you don t like or is a political opponent in this case, it s ver tevery hard to ey get that law to comean back to its original shape.ally today s proof that you could not actually pick a target and then try and find a crime, even a beo crime. ime. that s not a crime because fac there is no crime here. thd i m telling you, theretsknow is no crime.is i know the facts and the law, g and i really want to see where this is going to go. m aj i don t know. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg is facing major backlash for bringing this case in the first place by being criticized for using untested legal theory c to bring state charges inas a feder
neighbors wandering around this neighborhood that was so so hard hit, really just in disbelief. they can t believe what has happened to the place that they call home. you can see behind me trees uprooted, the roofs of houses that have been torn apart. and over here you can see this power pole snapped into multiple pieces, just incredible behind this power pole you can see the wall of this garage torn apart. all the con ends inside visible [audio difficulty] on the street to see. now, this tornado hit around 2:30 in the afternoon. even the national weather service s little rock office had to shelter in place so that they could be safe. they had to change over the duties to the memphis office while they took shelter, essentially. you know, after the tornado hit, there were, you know, first responders out in the streets, you know, rescuing folks, just a harrowing scene here in little rock. arkansas governor, sarah huckabee sanders, declaring a state of emergency here. she is
off from his mar-a-lago home sometime on monday on there for the formal arraignment on this 30-plus indictment that has been handed down. he would be the first former president to have to deal with something like this. it will be historic, and we re told that plans have been made to make it as unzoo-like, if you can use such a term, as possible by closing off traffic in lower manhattan and making sure that the former president can get safely into and out of that building. he will have to be the fingerprinted, he will have to be given a mug shot. there will be no handcuffing going on here, and he will be likely field on his own reconnaissance to the head back to florida. so we re keeping track of all of those storms. let s get the ones impacting a lot of folks who in some cases are dealing with this all off again. will nunley in wynne, arkansas, with more on that. reporter: nile, many a lot of cases absolutely total losses of their homes. and in the case of wynne, loss of li
afternoon. that come after manhattan grand jury voted thursday to indict him in order to believe thousands of business fraud charges related to hush money payments to stormy daniels that were made during the 2016 campaign for president. we do not know what is in this indictment. we will see it tuesday when it is released after the arraignment. i fully expect that one of the things we will see us each a transaction, each falsification that is alleged is going into a separate account. the question is are each of those enhanced by the federal election campaign violation? or is it just one felony and 29 misdemeanors? what s has been said the attorney the district attorney has brought 117 of these cases for more on this nate foy at standing outside the supreme court in lower manh manhattan. hey eric, it s pretty quiet outside the manhattan criminal courthouse you can certainly expect that to change the coming days as for her president trump is expected to fly to new york cit