washington. bill and dana are off. good morning to you. nice to be with you today i m gillian turner. former president trump said he would be arrested today as part of a hush money investigation. the manhattan grand jury is still as of now hearing from witnesses. law enforcement source tells fox news not to expect an indictment and arraignment until next week. preparation for the hearing underway at the courthouse in lower manhattan. nypd shutting down streets and building barriers in response to numerous safety concerns. dana: zbloo the potential arraignment of a former president is a logistical nightmare. alvin bragg has ruled out the possibility of a virtual hearing. the case centers on a 130,000 hush money payment made by trump s former attorney cohen to storm daniels in 2016. cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. he is a key witness in the case against trump. yesterday the jury heard from one of cohen s former legal advisors who called hi
here is that if donald trump could pick one of these torpedoes to hit, this would be the one because he has been arguing that they are politicizing the criminal justice system and alvin bragg gave him proof positive that narrative is correct at least in this case. more substantive threats exist in things like mar-a-lago. those are conventional crimes, well established theories of culpability. so if you had to choose, of course this would be the one that trump would decide to go forward with first. what bragg has done is he is now going to paint all those other cases if they end up in indictment with the same brush. so bragg has undermined these other cases while he has empowered donald trump in a significant way. john: let s talk for a second about robert costello s testimony yesterday. he painted cohen who is a serial
digital cohen who pled guilty to lying to congress called costello s comments fantastic. he said the hush money payment to daniels was at the direction of and coordination and for the benefit of trump. the district attorney has the documentation in order to validate every single statement that i ve made. and to basically dispel anything that bob costello has to say, which is probably again why they didn t need me for rebuttal. last night on truth social the former president continued to deny any wrongdoing. whether the mar-a-lago raid or committee host. the perfect georgia phone call, absolutely perfect, or the stormy horse face daniels extortion plot, they were all sick and it s fake news.