their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the grand juro
appearance. the sudden scheduling of the hearing suggests she will tell more than during her previous four taped depositions, clips of which were played last week, including the revelation that after the riot, a number of republican congress members had sought pardons from the white house. s had sought pardons from the white house. her boss, mark meadows, appears to be a central figure for the committee s investigation. first turning over his text messages, including the ones he received during the january 6 insurrection from top republican lawmakers, media figures and trump family members, like donald trump junior, marjorie taylor greene and a text chain between top trump white house officials including jared kushner. earlier this month, the department of justice declined to charge meadows on a context referral from the full house. it was made in december on the grounds that meadows abruptly changed course and refused to cooperate with the committee. andrea, this is a surp
if hee1 has to appear atxd an arraignment, for instance? do they bring in change what would normally be done?e1 of course, the court building is very heavily protected and handles the worst criminals in the world down there. that s where they have terroris1 trials. 100 center street, a state court, is heavily populated. it s where they hear criminal cases in state court in new york county here.q i believe i don t recall offhand whether therexd are mag magnatometers there. the nypd is probably in the lead in this discussion. we have caps ájt @&h(lc% gearing up.t( it s potentially because they don t knowlp anything but becau the former president called for protests. the last time he did that was before january 6th.çóe1
then they can march to the capitol. photos provided by the national archives showing the president in the off stage tent, you re in some of those photos as well. and i just want to confirm that that is when you heard the president say that the people with weapons weren t there to hurt him and he wanted the secret service to remove the mag magnatometers. that s correct. we were standing in the tent close where he would walk out to go on to the stage. these conversations happened two to three minutes before he took the stage that morning. let s reflect on that for a moment. president trump was aware that a number of the individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor, and here is what president trump instructed the crowd to do. we re going to walk down, i ll be there with you, anyone