right now, our top story right here out of new york, alvin bragg is sweating even more than usual tonight. now, his pathetically weak case against former president trump has totally imploded. let s be very clear here, the case died this very week. it is very obvious, it is very clear, it s transparent, alvin bragg had every intention of indicting john all j trump this week, second day, grand jury proceedings canceled. telling reuters, it was former president donald trump that created false expectation of arrest. it was never actually going to happen according to bragg, it seems. really? after multiyear investigation, the formation of a grand jury, the da s meeting with law enforcement to create an impending arrest of a former president, and we re supposed to believe that somehow, donald trump created the false expectation of arrest. now the new york times, they reported, of course pulitzer prize reporting, they reported that criminal charges against trump were likely on mar
money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.
Michael cohen testifying. I watched him inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss just a few feet away. Defense started their Cross Examination. We have been reporting on that along with our colleagues here. How it has been going. Asanother pivotal day. Michael cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the anstand. It is a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment we have been waiting for. The crossexamination. Will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination . It has been an explosive last hour of testimony. It is getting testy. Michael cohen is about 45 minutes now into todd blanches crossexamination. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the credibility of the star witness. That is some of what went down. Prosecutors have you confirmed something new. Cohen is their last witness which means they are on track to rest their case here because there will just be this Cross Examination i told yo
he didn t intend to kill the guy but intended to protect himself and so i m really hoping that the court system takes all this into consideration and acts justly. rachel: yeah, he was trying to protect his girlfriend as he should. by the way, the da s charging him, they don t ride the subway probably. they don t have to deal with this. we live in a backwards situation and people like jordan williams are bearing the burden for the up tick in crime, the issues with housing, mental health, we all live in new york city and pay millions in taxes. where is it going and why does jordan williams have the be the one that defends himself and don t want to have this situation begin with and it does and my client is arrested. it s a bit backwards right now and being charged and we re going to get the case dismissed and even in this situation, i would hope that gets fixed at some point. pete: seeing on the bottom of
to be arraigned on tuesday at 2 15 pm in that manhattan criminal court also knew today, the same manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, who indicted donald trump with some very strong pushback against house republicans and their investigation of him in a new letter to the three gop house committee chairs, the da s office writes, attempted interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation and now prosecution is an unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on new york s sovereign interests, and it slams their their cooperation with trump in attempts to vilify the prosecutors in that case. cnn s chief political correspondent, manu raju, joins us now from capitol hill. so manu, what are you hearing from republicans over there? in the wake of all of these developments? there s been a lot of reaction, and there s also some division among the top republicans about exactly how to respond or whether to respond, but the house gop leadership has