new developments tonight in a campaign finance case that sent one-time trump fixer and lawyer michael cohen to prison. a new court filing revealed that the southern district of new york, that s the fed s office in manhattan, has wrapped up its investigation into the hush money payments and critical evidence related to the raid on cohen s home and office will be unsealed tomorrow morning. we don t know what kind of a day we re facing tomorrow. we do know this. judge william pauley gave the reason for ordering the materials to be released despite the government s request that they remain put away, sealed. and please pay very close attention to this wording, as we did. the weighty public ramifications of the conduct described in the campaign finance portions warrant disclosure. the involvement of most of the relevant third-party actors is now public knowledge,
in the normal prosecutorial world we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve got the goods, they re going to detain him, they re going to go at him hard, maybe consider bringing him on as a cooperator so he can expose everybody else who is involved in his ugly unseemly sex ring. but bill barr is over the top of and has command and control over the southern district of new york. and that injects so much uncertainty and so much potentially nefarious conduct. mieke, can you believe we re living in an era where we have to discuss the a.g., as mr. kirschner did, as the president s potential personal lawyer stepping in to something like this? it s really unfortunate, but we ve seen over and over again that that is what this president is looking for in an attorney general. when you read through the mueller report and his complaints to don mcgahn that he
the question is will that include such things as who decided to make the payments for hush money? did foreign entities get involved in supplying the money? did they know where the money was going? did president trump direct it? or did he just acquiesce to cohen s suggestion? what is it we re going to learn that goes toward high crimes and misdemeanors potentially against the president of the united states? and mieke, we really wanted to hear you tonight on the following topic, and that is bail for mr. epstein, the sexual predator. he is facing that decision by a federal judge and then today at the same hour 4:00 eastern we heard glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, say this about the specter of the attorney general. a little reminder that these federal offices all report to him. we ll talk about it on the other side. in the normal prosecutorial world we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve
counterintelligence, and mieke eoyang. welcome to you both. frank, all of us around here watched nicolle wallace, 4:00 eastern time. that s where we first saw you react to this story today. what do words national importance mean to you? what kind of thing are we expecting tomorrow? federal judges cheese their words very carefully. so for a federal judge to say this material has national importance means this to me. he s focused on the material the government has that got them in the door with a search warrant of cohen s offices, residence. what does that mean? that means this isn t going to be a nothing burger tomorrow. you don t gather material to establish probable cause and have nothing. you convince the judge that there s evidence of a crime inside that place and i need to get in there. so we re going to see that. the question is will that
potentially nefarious conduct. mieke, can you believe we re living in an era where we have to discuss the a.g., as mr. kirschner did, as the president s potential personal lawyer stepping in to something like this? it s really unfortunate, but we ve seen over and over again that that is what this president is looking for in an attorney general. when you read through the mueller report and his complaints to don mcgahn that he wants his own roy cohn, that he wants someone who s going to protect him, and that was the case that barr was going to make to him in applying for the job. i think there are a lot of questions about whether or not the prosecution of justice in this justice department will be evenhanded or whether or not the president will put his thumb on the scale. especially given his close relationship with epstein. frank, there was also this new video that came out this morning. it s been airing all day. this dates back to 1992. jeffrey epstein on the left there in the de