this time next tuesday night if the schedule holds donald john trump child and product of new york will officially be defendant in a new york criminal matter. in our exclusive interview last hour with former vice president pence here s somebody told cnn s wolf blitzer about today s historic indictment. when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness who believe in equal treatment before the law, and this appears to be just one more example. wolf. of the kind of two tiered justice system that the american people have had enough of it. that s the former vice president in our last hour in this hour of our live breaking historic coverage, a conversation with the one figure who has been key to first the scandal, then the investigation and now the charges against former president donald trump, his old bos
that focus on the fact that george soros is jewish. there s a lot of nasty stuff began to swirl here against this d a against its prosecutor, and he needs to be defended and protected. want to thank my job. we find out what s actually going on. he needs to be defended the project. i think of my panel. our coverage continues right now. just about 10 p.m. here in manhattan, where the by this time next tuesday night if the schedule holds donald john trump child and product of new york will officially be defendant in a new york criminal matter. in our exclusive interview last hour with former vice president pence here s somebody told cnn s wolf blitzer about today s historic indictment. when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness, who believe in equal treatment before the law, and this appears to be
talking if he s gonna be testifying. absolutely not. this is the last thing prosecutors want, and it doesn t help that michael cohen s lawyer, lanny davis, is out there doing the same thing. michael cohen is going to be a central witness in this case, every word he says, is fair game for cross examination and one of the points that s going to be made. is that michael cohen has a major, deep, seething hatred for donald trump, and we could see it in that interview. right there. you could list some of the worst words in the world. michael cohen has used them to talk about donald trump. now, people say it may say i understand why he feels that way , given what he went through for donald trump, but still it s going to be open season for the defense lawyer to paint michael cohen as a biased witness with a personal ax to grind, and every one of these media appearances gives the defense more ammunition on that. he also repeated during that interview. his denial that he is guilty of some of the
for donald trump, but still it s going to be open season for the defense lawyer to paint michael cohen as a biased witness with a personal ax to grind, and every one of these media appearances gives the defense more ammunition on that. he also repeated during that interview. his denial that he is guilty of some of the crimes you already pled guilty to, and the southern district of new york at some of the tax fraud crimes in particular, and so it just shocks me that we have somebody who is going to be an important witness for the government, in this case brought by the manhattan district attorney s office who is now saying that he under oath, pled guilty to crimes that he now says he didn t plead guilty to. so that s just on top of the bias. a huge problem karen macdougal aspect. of the story. she was somebody who said she had a relationship with the former president before he was before he was president, and that the national enquirer david pecker, uh, caught and killed her story. um i
sides. this is going to be a trickier trial for prosecutors, and these three defendants have to be two different trials which is extraordinarily hard to do. we could see plea talks, if so they re going to have to happen soon because these trials are right around the corner. they are right around the corner. but we also had this series of ongoing justice department investigations. so what should we be looking for as we approach the new year? yeah, kaitlan, three very high profile doj investigations with potential political ramifications. matt gaetz, the congressman from florida, under investigation for potential sex trafficking crimes. we know they flipped his associate joe greenburg, but that was seven months ago. we have not heard anything since then. hunter biden announced he was under investigation for potential tax fraud crimes in delaware. if he s charged, that will create an unprecedented situation, imagine the son of the sitting president being prosecuted by doj. and rudy gi