isolated time for him during this period. his detention has been given until the very end of may. so he is probably not going to have very much access to any o his family, friends. he s not going to be able to get any phone calls. and his lawyer is going to hav to go through a lot of red tap just to be able to fil documents to be able to see hi client and of course, what is ver scary about this, alex, is tha it sends a very ominous messag to other western journalists i russia that, if we don t like you reporting, you could be next t be holed up in front of a cour and face a lengthy priso sentence so, very precarious time for western journalists working in russia, and a very undetermine future for mr. gershkovich absolutely, a difficult couple of months ahead a minimum. look, let me ask you, do you know efforts on behalf of th white house. what are they doing to try t get up english coach back home we , well there are effort
pressed after that, asked abou his thoughts on what this woul mean for the rule of law i this country, and again he declined to comment but th white house didn t have an heads up of what the indictmen was coming as you would expect as well. there are multiple investigations and probes into president trump. some of which are bein overseen by the department o justice, and president biden has been very clear that h wants no remain completely independent of his attorne general, merrick garland and the special counsel jack smith. as those investigation continue but i am told that the white house is going to continue t urge calm when it comes to any of these potential protests. and that they will continue to send the message to anybod that is considering protesting in either new york around th country, around the former presidents suspected surrender to remain as peaceful as possible, so again i don t think that this white house is really going to change their strategy, they re going to cont
declined to comment on the indictment of his 2020 rival when asked by reporters to d so let s bring in nbc s washingto correspondent amy shelf than door from the white house, and julián castro, former secretary of housing in herman in th element. good to see both of. you let start with you at th white house, walk us through why the president at thi moment is saying no commente being silent, at least in term of response and opinion upon the case that it is about to really hit a high point on tuesday. well, as we are continuin to learn more details abou this historic indictment, of former president trump president biden has been consistent and saying he doe not want to comment. this is a white house that doe not want to be seen as meddlin in any sort of legal case that might come before any sort o judge. they really want to make sur that this doesn t look political are politicized. that being said, of course president biden is continuin to face questions. just take a listen to what h
same well alex, this white house this biden administration is being very careful in no commenting on the lega problems in the indictment o former president trump president biden has been asked about this repeatedly, and s far, he s continuing to say he has no comment take a listen to him on th white house blog jus yesterday. what s your reaction to the president trump indictment i m not going to talk about trump s indictment so, you see that th president really - we know that his administratio saying that they wanted to mak sure the justice department an the legal department, and loca da, is that they were all goin to be able to act independentl and without politica influence. so, you really have the bide administration sticking to that i think privately, when i talking to sources, they r also sticking to that. in some ways, on the political and it reminds me of 2020 an the election, where presiden biden, then candidate biden, was really sinking back an watching is former pr
denied directly to michael cohen, to make that 130,00 dollar payment before the 2016 election, but what michael cohen has yet to directl answer, is when he knew that that stormy daniels arraignmen was waved because he was writing persona checks all the way from th white house, all the way u until december 2017, when asked him two times he faile to provide a timeline and then i asked him, well what did you think you are making those payments for? and, quote, well, i don t know exactly what the status or rug actually what the question i as to how much but he did work for us but he did not do very muc work for us. he then went on to talk abou the weaponization and ended hi remarks by saying that i had n more questions again, donald trump ha declined, repeatedly, to giv his own version of events. and that is why you could gues that he is likely to - undergo before a jury, chris yeah, i think we will not expect his testimony shoul this come to trial i want to ask one more question bec