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
battle either they win or we wib. if they win, wev country. this is a person who people have tried to diminish his work saying it s rhetoric. as we saw on january 6th, it s way more than rhetoric. it s dangerous. how is law enforcement assessing the wordsñi and the listening w that the former president and t context?w3 ii] think it s clearg!auá) taking it very seriously. if you look at all the areas you cited from new york city to mar-a-lago and even washington, d.c., after january 6th, law enforcement is well e1aware of e impact that trump s statementst h5 notable in this case is he is calling for e1e1protests. as we all know, there s nothing wrong with protests. it s parking lot of a vibrant democracy. within the context of donald trump saying that we have ajf history ofq inciting the march n thefá toll and an insurrection. there s a lot of attention being a paid to this.