and former legal adviser to michael cohen is expected to testify that cohen is not the guy you want to rely on. a source familiar with jonathan dienst says costello is prepared to say that cohen is a liar, a convicted perjure, an embellisher who s out for revenge, that he s furious with donald trump and blames him for all of his troubles, that the hush money payments were made because cohen felt it was important to keep the stormy daniels matter a secret from melania trump in order to protect their marriage. we are keeping an eye on that courtroom in case costello comes out to speak with reporters, he could. we re also watching for michael cohen who says he s been asked to rebut costello to the grand jury if need be. here s some of what cohen would likely say from his own attorney who just spoke with wnbc. donald trump must be treated like any other citizen, and there aren t two systems of justice. no person is above the law. that s what we re facing now. we have indisputab
president donald trump s mar-a-lago home. how is robert costello, i was going to say corcoran, so many c names. robert costello, relevant? the idea is we expect him to attack cohen s credibility. you might wonder why is that necessary given that cohen pled guilty. the credibility issues there are basically well known at this point. they have been talking about it in court papers repeatedly. exactly. and you would think that the prosecution has laid that out for the grand jury, and cohen has probably already sort of previewed the issues of why his story has changed. it doesn t stop costello from providing that context for the jury, but the grand jury can decide what weight to give that if any at all, and so it s interesting to see why do it this late in the game. train may have left the station. is that at the request of donald trump s team?