right here to cnn. new central. happening soon in charlottesville, two of these three men who carried tiki torches and march nearly six years ago at a white nationalist rally are scheduled to appear in court today. each has been indicted on a single felony charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. 2017 rally ultimately led to violent clashes with counter protesters in 32 year old heather higher, lost her life. cnn s brian todd is in charlottesville. brian i understand there are some new developments, what s going on there? well john. the hearing is slightly delayed because there s another unrelated hearing going on in this court behind me, but in a few minutes we do expect this hearing to take place where two of the three defendants in this case are expected to appear to set the scene for our viewers. we have to kind of differentiate this. these defendants are charged in the case that s related to that
Fixer. Back with us, yasmin vossoughian, Danny Cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst. Joining us this hour, maya wiley, former assistant u. S. Attorney who is now president of the Leadership Conference on civil and human right. And misty merits, a Defense Attorney. Good to see you. Welcome to the show. Yasmin, start us off. Whats happening now inside that courtroom . Reporter so this is all about the leadup to august 2018 in which Michael Cohen pleads guilty and then in a court of law, essentially points the finger at donald trump, the president at the time, and says he made me do it. Hence launching the inquiry by the manhattan d. A. s office, shifting to alvin bragg when cy vance retired. There was a conversation that happened. There was concern from david pecker, inquiries from the Wall Street Journal, specifically, when it came to involvements of ami, david pecker, dylan howard, Michael Cohen, and donald trump in the Stormy Daniels payoff. In addition to the i
holding. this is what the gun looked like. it sort of matched the description of the one that was used baldwin, as we know, was charged earlier this year in the deadly shooting of cinematographer helena hutchins. joining me now lovely to have you defense and trial attorney misty merits. um i remember the whole conversation where mr baldwin kept saying i didn t fire the gun. i didn t fire the gun. the fbi report comes forward, saying actually, it had to be fired. and now we re hearing that there s something different. what is going on here ? yes, sarah. i m so curious about when this modification was discovered and what investigation was done to get to this conclusion? because the prior district attorney now we have a special prosecutor hurts a sign. so look fresh eyes on the case, really in the speed lane to get to the preliminary hearing, which was scheduled for may 5th so in the course of that preparation, the special prosecutors have said they discovered this modification of the gun