it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. and we re so glad you re with us, hi, everyone, i m jessica dean. and i m boris sanchez. jessica, great to share an afternoon with you, albeit a busy one, right? the nation is bracing to see if an american president is going to be indicted in coming days. that s never happened in u.s. history. it s unprecedented. and the outcome hinges on what happens outside of this courthouse in manhattan. just a short time ago, a man who may be one of the final grand jury witnesses in a case against former president donald trump arrived at the courthouse. this car transporting robert costello, he s appearing at the request of trump s attorneys and he is there, essentially to contradict michael cohen, trump s former fixer. of course, cohen is a key witness as the new york district attorney investigates trump s alleged role in a hush money scheme to cover up a $130,000 payment in 2016 to adult film star stormy daniels. it was to keep her quiet
about how your words or actions or strategy will move the ball forward in that case, you have to as consider how all of those words and actions are going to impact your strategy and position in all of these other cases at the same time. so, you know, trump is really in a hard mode kind of situation here where his attorneys are going to-, unfortunately, for hm face a war at multiple fronts much like r. kelly or michael avenatti. we should point out that his attorney s attempted to get the entire fulton county case dismissed. so we ll have an update for viewers later in the other. renato marinatti, we appreciate you. let s talk to ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. and juliette kayyem, a national security analyst and a former assistant secretary in the
services which, of course, they were not if it was done in furtherance of a second crime. and here the crime, at least reportedly would be a campaign finance obligation with the d.a. arguing that the funding was done with to fund the campaign because the payments were made in the late stages of the 2016 election. that would be a pretty novel argument, potentially unprecedented, and i would expect some significant legal challenges. and if you zoom out for a second, renato, you ve got the other case in georgia against former president trump trump. we ve got federal cases. how do you think this impacts those, if at all? or what do you see playing out? great questions, so those cases are going to go forward and i actually think this ups the difficulty for the defense. once thing that is always hard on the defense side is fighting the war on multiple fronts where your client is facing charges in different courtrooms. and instead of thinking solely
another intermediary as stone has identified, is joerome cors. here s what corsi had to say on cnn s state of the union today. i ll be happy to testify. i suspect to be subpoenaed. i ll let the testimony fall wherever it falls. i m going to tell the truth to the best of my ability. even that s hard given the amount of information and the fact that i ve said from the beginning i m not a human tape recorder. you can t push a button and i can t recall precisely in detail granularly conversations, e-mails, events from 2016, but i m going to do my best to tell the truth without calculation of whom it benefits or whom it detracts. renato, what s your take on what corsi had to say today and his significance to stone s legal woes? well, that s the first smart thing that jerome corsi has said in many weeks, ana. in what way? i have followed i have followed corsi on twitter for a
from the beginning? quickly, if you will, renato, do you think that mueller s close to the end and will we get those answers about why they re lying? he certainly is going to start getting some of the answers unless there s pardons that go flying from president trump. whether he s near the end of not, it s not clear to me. we ve seen some reports on that, but other than those press reports, i haven t seen anything that indicates he s ready to slow down. renato marinatti, jared zelizer, jessica schneider. steve king stunned in washington, losing committeeships and even facing pressure to resign after his latest racist remarks defending white supremacy. but in his iowa district, the response is surprisingly mixed we ll take you there ahead.