i m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump. so,
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Spending years in prison. Convicted on seven counts this evening. Eyewitness News Reporter josh einiger with the new details and reaction from silver. In a courtroom in a building behind me today Shelly Silver sat silently, as the foreperson said the word guilty seven different times. A man who once ruled albany facing a potential sentence of decades in prison. Reporter after almost four decades of public service, more than 20 years as speaker of the silvers storied political career came to a definitive and most undignified end. After three days of deliberations the jury convicted him on federal corruption charges, guilty, they said, on every single count. Just disappointed right now. After we file the legal challenges well have a different result. Reporter during the fiveweek trial, prosecutors laid out a pattern, silver they said profited 4 million after using his position to benefit two Real Estate Developers and a cancer researcher. Whats been so upsetting about all this is hes bee