it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. and we re so glad you re with us, hi, everyone, i m jessica dean. and i m boris sanchez. jessica, great to share an afternoon with you, albeit a busy one, right? the nation is bracing to see if an american president is going to be indicted in coming days. that s never happened in u.s. history. it s unprecedented. and the outcome hinges on what happens outside of this courthouse in manhattan. just a short time ago, a man who may be one of the final grand jury witnesses in a case against former president donald trump arrived at the courthouse. this car transporting robert costello, he s appearing at the request of trump s attorneys and he is there, essentially to contradict michael cohen, trump s former fixer. of course, cohen is a key witness as the new york district attorney investigates trump s alleged role in a hush money scheme to cover up a $130,000 payment in 2016 to adult film star stormy daniels. it was to keep her quiet
about how your words or actions or strategy will move the ball forward in that case, you have to as consider how all of those words and actions are going to impact your strategy and position in all of these other cases at the same time. so, you know, trump is really in a hard mode kind of situation here where his attorneys are going to-, unfortunately, for hm face a war at multiple fronts much like r. kelly or michael avenatti. we should point out that his attorney s attempted to get the entire fulton county case dismissed. so we ll have an update for viewers later in the other. renato marinatti, we appreciate you. let s talk to ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. and juliette kayyem, a national security analyst and a former assistant secretary in the
because we doll see there s a substantial portion of the gop electorate now that questions whether trump can win again. certainly for the most ardent supporters, is this going to be they re going safer me because they want to silence you. the question whether he can win again, can i think there s more reason to be concerned and we ve seen evidence in that in our new cnn polling that came out last week. juliette, to ron s point about potential attempt from members of trump s party to intimidate d.a.s or investigators looking into the former president, do you really think that might have a chilling effect on their work? no, i mean, i think i worry more about the physical well-being of people involved with this case, the judge, jurors, of course, the d.a. and the district attorney s office, we ve already seen brad come out. so what you re worried about is
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. and we re so glad you re with us, hi, everyone, i m jessica dean. and i m boris sanchez. jessica, great to share an afternoon with you, albeit a busy one, right? the nation is bracing to see if an american president is going to be indicted in coming days. that s never happened in u.s. history. it s unprecedented. and the outcome hinges on what happens outside of this courthouse in manhattan. just a short time ago, a man who may be one of the final grand jury witnesses in a case against former president donald trump arrived at the courthouse. this car transporting robert costello, he s appearing at the request of trump s attorneys and he is there, essentially to contradict michael cohen, trump s former fixer. of course, cohen is a key witness as the new york district attorney investigates trump s alleged role in a hush money scheme to cover up a $130,000
and leave. and we re done, right? the variable is, of course, will trump want that and use this as a mean of fund rraising and oth aspects. i wrote for the atlantic, the court system has control over that, and the hoopla to make sure this doesn t turn out to be fundraising for trump. the scary part of it, if no one calls insurrection and no one shows up is he still donald trump? his calls for rally, you re getting pushback from mccarthy, i should say protest, he s not saying violence. and also on social media, you re just not seeing the kind of galvanizing that you saw january 6. there s too many people in jail, people have moved on. and they also worry about, if they show up, whether it s a false flag and that they ll get arrested by the fbi. so in a weird way, trump s