money fraud. and the house republicans now war-gaming to attack the prosecutor. plus china s xi jinping touches down in moscow for his face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. xi says china and russia share key goals. unclear, though, is whether putin gets the help he wants from china for his war in ukraine. and $3 billion. a swiss bank spends big to take over its struggling rival. financial markets are reacting positively, but what does this mean for your money? a first for us, though, a week that could bring history, criminal charges against donald trump. the former president predicts as much saying he expects to be arrested tomorrow. new developments underscore the tension an high stakes. the issue, the 2016 hush money paid to adult film star actress stormy daniels. longtime fixer michel cohen made that payment. trump says cohen falsified business records in the process. robert costello is a trump-connected attorney who once represented michael cohen. costello asked
allegation. you have michael cohen who is an admitted liar, prosecutor for life. now, he said he s telling the truth, he said he was paid to lie for donald trump and that s what he s doing now. and robert costello testified over the sweeblgd that he s handed over hundreds of documents to trump fixer michael cohen. so he once represented michael cohen, but he s in the trump orbit. i mean, who are you to believe in this cast of known liars? listen, you re already in an unusual situation by having either a witness go in that is providing essentially a defense for the former president and having michael kobe on stand-by to rebut that. that doesn t happen all the time. again, there have been issues of michael cohen s credibility. there have already been issues. the federal prosecutor has looked into this. what you have to remember, grand juries deal with this issues all the time. we were dealing with regular murder cases, regular drug cases. you re not dealing with the most pristine of fi