knew something about a child that donald trump had fathered out of wedlock the door man had taken a payment of $30,000 it turns out that stories been debunked, but that payment was made the day that pecker is in the center of all of this. he was a figure when michael cohen went to jail, and no proceeding, and he has appeare before the grand jury in the case now against the peopl versus donald trump. he has immunity. i think he is going to be fron and center at this trial, expected to go trial at this trial. it is really fastening to see, because we ve been so focuse on michael cohen but it s going to be both of one. that s a really good point. jennifer, we ve been talking a lot and looking at how republicans have responded t this, as i just outlined i this ultimately gets to tria on schedule, it ll probably be at some point in the primary you said that the gop primar is basically becoming a race t see which of his opponents are going to defend donald trump what are your concerns as w
doing that i do expect them to make a request for a bill particular, essentially get more detail, i think that will be granted they certainly will be raising some legal arguments, becaus this would be the first case that s litigated that migh involve a federal election prime, bringing up or bumpin up the misdemeanor to a felony i could see emotion on that, but in new york, you don t hav a right to appeal. any appeal would come later. i think as a practical matter, they re unlikely to get this case thrown out. usually the cases that do ou very unusual, and so the certainly have some chance o doing so here, but based on my looking at this or my research talking to a lot of manhatta practitioners, former assistan district attorney s, i think the da s on very solid groun legally. suzanne, i think the genera public, certainly a lot of u in the media, we are familia with stormy daniels and he story of what happened but, david pecker is a nam that a lot of people may not b familiar with. ho
according to the new york times, people close to trump say that his bravado both online and on the campaign trail maybe a act. insiders said they believe the ex president putting up controlled front to mask his anxiety, because it sure i hard to project you are strong and big lead when you ve gon from president to criminal defendant. joining me now to discuss this and more renato mariotti former federal prosecutor an little affair legal affair columnist and an msnbc contributor, an barbara leee jennifer horn a - republican party it s great to have you with us we re not oh, i ll start wit you and taking a look at the case here. we ve got our first look at th actual case and the indictment specifically against trump he is not charged with 3 counts of falsifying busines records with the intent to
cohen, and how does he fit int this david pecker is an incredibl character in this, and i think he is going to be, i don t wan to say the star, but he is going to be a star of this shouldn t go to trial. the reason is that he is the former editor of the enquire and he was involved in these catch and kill payments. he was involved in the storm daniels ones that didn t actually go to a catch and kil and there was a private paymen that was facilitated from trum to her, but he was als involved in the karen mcdougal case where there was a catch and kill a catch and kill, most peopl know it, but it s where yo take a story and instead o publishing it you pay for it you kill it. he s been in the center of all these, and there s a third cas that s lesser known about this door man at trump s building where there was a payment made that this dorman claimed h knew something about a child that donald trump had fathered out of wedlock the door man had taken a payment of $30,000 it turns out that sto
the stand, i - it s going to give his bas more ammunition to say these people are to get trump, they re out to get us, and frankly, what i said just second ago, there s nothin that s happened so far that see that will make his opponents or anyone else in th party actually speak up and sa gee, maybe we shouldn t be defending this guy susan, let me get you thoughts on another legal case in the pipeline. fulton county da - expected to announce if sh will file charges against trum in the coming weeks. this is obviously in connectio with trump and his allies, and their efforts to overturn th 2020 presidential election as these charges might pile up if it does happen in georgia a well fulton county specifically, how do you see trump navigatin these cases and the 2024 presidential campaign? i think we have to pull bac what we think about even jus the manhattan da case. i think in a year from now we re going to be looking at these as specifically the on in new york, a piece of all th stuff