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
stopping that interview. deadline: white house which has a lot more about this starts right now. hi there, everyone, we come on the air with a whopper of a breaking news story for you. a settlement has been reached in that massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news it was that kind of day. everyone waiting for a vatican-like puff of smoke a lot of delays. a lot of pontificating and a lot of wondering what might be happening and now, we know nick confessori, the judge in this case, at 3:57 as we sat waiting to come on the air, quote, the parties have resolved the case do you have anything to say about that look, this is a very big deal it surprised many people, today was going to be the opening day of arguments there was a two-hour delay after lunch. no one came back with the arguments. we saw the two parties in the courtroom, waiting in the courtroom, exchanging some paper. and before air time, we get the announcement f
which called the accurately and first, which in a normal world is something you re proud of it, is something they d like to see dismantled what do you believe just as someone who is very astute in the political arena as well as the legal one, what do you think the contribution of this case is to our understanding of the role fox plays in undermining our faith in democracy well, you know, a lot of great reporters i think we had have an opportunity thanks to our court system and excellent judge and special master who gave us the discovery to expose the reality at fox in a way that had never been done before i think that was important i think it helps hold fox accountable. i think it led to today. we re very proud of dominion for bringing this lawsuit and for standing up for itself to fox and hearing all the way through the end, all the way through discovery and all the way through today. how much of the legal team will remain intact to take on
institutions of this country have not served them well and we got to stop trying to look at, you know, these people, why don t we figure out why they do it. mccarthy and those folk, i agree with kim, that s all politics, but for the people that are in east palestine where, you know, he visited or the crowds he got in iowa, what is it? i don t think so much they love donald trump, they love the fact that he is shaking everything up. think in a negative way which is why i went to the democrat convention, in other words, with donald trump, he s a negative populist who says you don t have something because somebody else took it from you. as opposed to, yes, we have problems here, let s dig in and try to fix them. we have to see if a candidate on the republican side can emerge who can provide hope and rather than despair. that s what we got to watch. we certainly will be watching for that. former governor john kasich, always a pleasure, thank you so much for your time. kim atkins stohr. a
times political investigative reporter as well as sarah ellison who joins us now, a washington post media reporter. great to have you both. nick, before we get to those allegations by grossberg, about fox s workplace culture, tell us a little about what her lawsuit is about, what is it she s accusing fox specifically of doing or fox lawyers specifically of doing? well, two different thing, first of all most importantly for the dominion case she is alleging she was coached and pressured to give misleading testimony in her deposition in that case and specifically to downplay the role of senior executives in unleashing the torrent of misinformation and conspiracy theories about dominion and voting fraud more broadly that we saw on the air. pull back for a second. it s basically interest dominion s perspective fox knew what it was doing from the