hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
today s summary judgment hearing to conclude, this is often the point in a lawsuit where one side or the other side gets a preview of what a jury trial would look like and then seeks to settle accordingly. is there any indication fox is ready to step back from this fight? are you aware of how perhaps fox s top brass is feeling about how this case is developing so far? some people have expressed surprise that it has even gotten to this point in front of this judge. sure. i mean, i think that any company would try to avoid this kind of embarrassment and what one of the things i ve learned in my reporting about the mood inside fox is that or at least what was leading up to this point because fox paid out so many settlements to so many women over the course of, you know, 2016 and 17 and then, you know, even in later years that there was a certain point that fox felt like that people were coming to them like they were a