remains under seal. trump says it is all political persecution. republican lawmakers say it is simple and wrong. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has had it out for trump all along. i said from day one this is a political stunt. what s behind all this? hatred. this is absolutely a political witch hunt through and through. this is the kind of witch hunt that can only serve to tell people in the future if it works, you should try to indict people to keep them from winning elections. you are talking about a misdemeanor that gets bootstrapped onto election law in a way i ve never seen. democrats know it has nothing to do with the laws. they are sending a message. harris: kevin mccarthy is vowing the house will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power accountable. and we have live pictures outside mar-a-lago, florida, where former president trump s sporters are gathering. that s his home in that town. national correspondent bryan llenas, how a
Going on now. Former president Donald Trumps New York Criminal Trial we have covered. At this moment Michael Cohen is back on the stand. Another day of the defenses cross examination. Cohen is the prosecutions star witness and weve learned he will be their final one. I mean, what would you say after whatever it is you would call what he has done on that stand . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Team trump is laser focused on shredding cohens credibility. Shouldnt be too hard. He is a convicted liar and he has been profiting off of the former president s legal journey now. On tuesday Michael Cohen even admitted he wants to see trump convicted. A former Legal Advisor to cohen shredded his testimony and his character actually for the defense. He did their job for them. Robert costello, who also worked in new yorks Southern District said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to Stormy Daniels in return for stayi
and over again. harris: focus now matt whitaker, former acting attorney general under former president trump. great to have you on the mezz. hope won t be enough. you have to have strategy. how do you get this important witness, devon archer, former best friend of hunter biden and worked together on the burisma energy company? how do you get him to come? he is under subpoena and he could be prosecuted for that crime. recently especially. and, you know, once you do that, once you play that final card of holding somebody in contempt, then no longer are they a witness. i think this witness in particular has a lot of information he can verify these calls with then vice president biden happened and that s a big deal. harris: well, there are purportedly 17 recordings that
militarily bullying us. harris: republican congressman michael mccaul of the great state of texas, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee member of the homeland security committee live with me on the mezz here in new york city. you saw the mixed reaction from republicans on whether or not we should sit down with china. what is your take? diplomacy is important. if you sit down, sit down from strength not from weakness. you need to have leverage in these talks to achieve something. what they did before this meeting, they made concessions on export controls and removing sanctions on human rights violations just to get for china. harris: and they re torturing uighurs. just to get in the room to talk to them. harris: it s not leverage. what would have been? it would have been to condemn the spy balloon very strongly.
now. harris: senator marshall. what keeps you up at night on this issue. safety and security every day across america 300 young adults are dying from fentanyl poisoning. my own father, a police officer, is more concerned about their safety and security than they are about inflation. inflation is absolutely numbing it is so high. groceries up 25%. my parents and any hometown. a former police officer doesn t feel safe anymore. harris: senator marshall, come back any time. glad to have you on the mezz. the biden administration is coming after your children s wait for it chocolate milk. they want to ban it. what do they have against chocolate? should i take that personally? the claim it s all in the name of your good health. the backlash is fierce. kat timpf in focus next.