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
general flynn. mainly, he had the connection with the people that were up on capitol hill, roger stone and the proud boys and the other groups that were organizing up there. he can really provide the glue that ties donald trump directly to the violence at the ; so this is extremely significant. and it opens up a whole5a■ new of worms for donald trump and is really nothing but more bad news this week for donald so let s think about this. we think we know a lot about what meadows and these others were involved with on january 6th. but we don t fully know because ñ executive privilege to not testify beforee1 this grd jury. th january 6th in many cases. the january 6th committee had documents, they had the other side of xdtexts. they knew what the communications were, but there s something different about having to testify under oath.çó totally, totally. they have to actually explain what s in these documents. at one point, mark meadows
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