and former legal adviser to michael cohen is expected to testify that cohen is not the guy you want to rely on. a source familiar with jonathan dienst says costello is prepared to say that cohen is a liar, a convicted perjure, an embellisher who s out for revenge, that he s furious with donald trump and blames him for all of his troubles, that the hush money payments were made because cohen felt it was important to keep the stormy daniels matter a secret from melania trump in order to protect their marriage. we are keeping an eye on that courtroom in case costello comes out to speak with reporters, he could. we re also watching for michael cohen who says he s been asked to rebut costello to the grand jury if need be. here s some of what cohen would likely say from his own attorney who just spoke with wnbc. donald trump must be treated like any other citizen, and there aren t two systems of justice. no person is above the law. that s what we re facing now. we have indisputab
the move on as they launched this counter offensive in the halls of congress, leveraging their house republican majority to bring bragg before them. this is just an ask at this point. it s not a subpoena. but when you see three of the most powerful committee chairmen going at this request, it gives a sense of how republicans could be trying to counter this even in the early phases before any kind of indictment has happened. so you have all of that messaging, and this idea that they ve got to get out ahead of this and get the d.a. in there to answer questions. is there any consternation, concern about going out and defending donald trump, and then potentially being indirectly, directly involved in another version of what we saw on january 6th, helping to inspire another violent incident ahead of donald trump facing consequences? yeah, i think january 6th looms over all of this, and that s the question i asked the speaker last night about trump s rhetoric around telling people not ju
new york times story breaks. i m sitting there thinking, yeah, i m sure jeb s a little bit more upset now than he was this morning. that s why every day feels like a year. christina, you could make an argument that jeb bush feels much more of a custodial sense, a sense of stewardship over his party than the president elected under the banner of the republican party in office. talk about the concern level you are sensing perhaps just among california republicans but among all those republicans who are going to be on a ballot in 2018 who may not be who may be more encumbered against free speech to say how they re feeling. we just did the ucs/ los angeles times poll that came out last friday, republican versus democrats, the democrats have an 11-point advantage and there s one reason and his name is president trump. so the party is definitely worried about this.
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mueller, donald mcgahn refused to ask the justice department to dismiss the special counsel saying he would quit instead. it s not the first time the people around this president have stepped in to stop something that could cause great damage to him or the presidency, but while the president s staff tries to control the message, president trump made it quite clear he sees himself as his own spokesman. i presented to the president my concerns and those of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about the on going leadership issues about the fbi as state in my letter recommending the removal of mr. comey. what i did is i was going to fire comey, my decision. you made the decision before they came in the room. i was going to fire comey. he was very definitely attitudes and even the wall once we briefed him when i was at