points and said he does no think it is what americans want the manhattan district attorney s office whic investigated trump s role in lunch money payments made to stormy daniels back in 201 declined to comment yesterda on trump s claims, or his cros through protest. nbc news, late last night, obtained his email sent by the da, alvin bragg, in which sh assured his staff that their safety is his top priority in part it reads, we do no tolerate attempts to intimidat our office or threaten the rul of law in new york there has been no official wor yet whether or not bright take to take the unprecedented move of indicting former president. the grand jury in this case ha not finished their work. the group is expected to reconvene tomorrow joining me now from palm beach florida. capitol correspondent, garrett hague. hague, great to see you again. you are near mar-a-lago. give us the insight into trump world. how are lawmakers reacting t trump s claim here well, other than the trut
biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
dot the noise. we need to focus on the fact o the law. we need to make a judgment tha we believe is in the bes interest of justice. i imagine that that is what th leaders of these organizations are doing today. if anything i think that seein this reaction is motivating to prosecutors who care of th rule of law. they are gonna let people know that they are not going to b silenced or intimidated by tough words or even th possibility of violence. if we allow that to stop u from filing charges and th rule of law has been killed. absolutely that is very important point. we are country of a rule of law, not mob rule cynthia, i want to go back t something he said really quickly here for a moment. you said we don t know what th specific counts might be and where the investigation ha advance and where it left of several years ago. there are some analysts wh have said that, of all the ongoing trump investigations the stormy daniels hush paymen case might be the weakest, perhaps even the hardes
it s far from the only investigation into the forme president. in fact the potential charge looming in both new york and georgia. we may be at a point where all of these investigations into trump are finally coming to head joining us now are danya perry former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan donna and barbara, thanks fo being with me this evening and i ll start with yo donna, in terms of what seem to be unusual to me at least and on its face. is this notion that the person that is under investigation ha his affiliates, paying for the council of other people who ma be important witnesses in that very same investigation. is that unusual, and if so what does it suggest to you? it s not a typical, and it not inherently nefarious you see third parties paying all the time legal fees for witnesses o defendants