welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. is it a when or if? a grand jury weighs to indict donald trump. law enforcement in new york and here in washington on alert now for possible protests. the former president s allies in congress are attacking the manhattan prosecutor. plus a handshake watched around the globe. highly choreographed moment by xi jinping and vladimir putin sends a defiant message to the united states and to the west, but so far, no public chinese commitment to help putin on the ukraine battlefield. and president biden takes out his veto pen for the first time. at issue, investment rules. woke capitalism is infecting banks and its government. up first for us, a law and order decision with history on the line. tomorrow the grand jury meets again in manhattan. that maybe the day new york prosecutors lay out charges against the former president of the united states. but the timing of everything her
this. this was cyrus vance. subpoenaing the trump organization. in 2021 cy vance said he would not run for election and alvin bragg was elected as the new manhattan district attorney. one year ago we were having a conversation because some prosecutors in that office resigned because they were unhappy with bragg in his early days believing he was not being aggressive enough, not prepared to move forward with an indeemt of trump. so where are we now one year later? well, albert bragg using a grand jury alvin bragg to look at this even more closely. he s the d.a. now. he worked in state and federal prosecuting jobs before that. he was also a private attorney representing among other clients eric garner s family in that big civil suit against new york city. he s a graduate of harvard law. he s 49 years old. he has had success both in his current job and in his state job working for the state attorney general in previous investigations of trump and the trump organization. a big charity fi
need to listen to him and put this sort of a plan in effect. the political stake of doing so are very high. karoun demirjian, thank you very much. joining us is josh green who wrote the book on steve bannon called devil s bargain and just got off the phone with bannon about this plan. josh, what did you learn? reporter: basically, i asked him, what made you change your mine? bannon has been in the camp up until now, don t fire people, you can t get rid of this investigation, he was against firing james comey. now he s flipped. he said what changed his mind is that mueller and his team crossed a red line, this is a quote from bannon, he said they crossed the red line by subpoenaing the trump organization records in doing the raid on michael cohen. he s in the dark territory now, he told me. and so he said, quote, rest make this political, let s shift this back to capitol hill, take the moral high ground, do some kind of delaying action and give voters an up or down vote on trump i
he used to when it came to being the person that was in the president s ear about everything. and that, of course, you know, goes back to last summer, the fire and fury book, bannon leaving the white house and all of the bad blood that still exists there, which potentially mitigates how much influence bannon can have over the president and his allies, who need to listen to him and put this sort of a plan in effect. the political stake of doing so are very high. karoun demirjian, thank you very much. joining us is josh green who wrote the book on steve bannon called devil s bargain and just got off the phone with bannon about this plan. josh, what did you learn? reporter: basically, i asked him, what made you change your mine? bannon has been in the camp up until now, don t fire people, you can t get rid of this investigation, he was against firing james comey. now he s flipped. he said what changed his mind is that mueller and his team crossed a red line, this is a quote from b
does the statement about the red line we re going to full will cooperate out of respect for the special counsel. we re not going to comment on any questions about the trump organization. to that, i d refer you there.