deadly school shooting in nashville. we will have the latest for you on a story that has, of course, again brought up the gun crisis and public health epidemic we face in america. we begin to the top story out of the grand jury investigating donald trump who =uqestigating donald trump who owne1 predicted arrest whichfá didn t happen last week. he has addede1 it the possible criminal evidence against him by posting something that wew3 do t normalize here in the news or in america and that is violentfá imagery tempting furt)eu attacks, death threats, violence against the d.a. that is inve3(k the rule of law. the former president also lied over the weekend about this case which some evidence restatemñ that we re not airing tonight. from the public evidence we aren seeing a criminal probe thatfá continues to move steadily towards a finish line, whether it s indictments or not, no one knowse1 yet.e1 but they are progressing. final witnesses, key evidence. this probe is late
donald trump forever. they don t work at the samew3q company. grand jury busyjf today is testimony, if it s like mr. he can pecker s last round, will not be very helpful to donald trump. what comes next? i don t have any predictions for you. i can only tell the calendar under the rules of this grand jury the next day they can meet is wednesday. weather they will hear from another witness or hold to vote or take more time, i can t predict that. the former acting solicitor general for the obama his crystal ball, i am sure he will predict all kinds of-9■ evs like a veritable back to the future cameo. good to see you, ari. i know what a smart lawyer you are. f%áo based on the past, whatu/does i ■ faced the grand jury today? well, first of all, ari, it s soñr sordid, all of this.
cohen dealt directly with each other and, obviously, then mr. trump. in terms of the catch and kills, that was long term though. i would like to be very clear about this. you know, there were meetings going on from 2012, 2014, so i don t know necessarily if it was only for the campaign as well, but certainly at thatt( time during the campaign it did benefit the campaign. let me read7• the campaign clearly, i mean, they benefitted and show some of that collaboration whether that reaches a legal threshold is a difficult, iw3 think, ques without more evidence. final quest$ú to you, joyce, and sam has walked us through joyce, how do prosecutors try to sq[uild beyond only campaign finance? because then, as sam reminded everyone, it hangs or falls on the jury s view of the criminal intent orq motivation in that window, in that october window, else, joyce, i mean, business records, tax, otherq things tha
kilter. trump tried to upend this public pr about the case with what can be described as a very unusual perhapsqi unprecedented predictn by a former president of his own arrest. that was supposed to be last tuesday. it proved inaccurate. tonight we can see d.a. bragg is continuing the work, legal investigative work. today they brought to key fact witness before this grand jury. someone who has cut deals with trump over the years and involved in efforts to try to shape media coverage when donald trump was the underdog and flailing in 2016. with an outlet that youq can se right here many consider aok ki of o.g. purveyor of totally fake news. i m talking about the tabloids, the national enquirer, u for salacious and sometimes quite misleading stories. most people know of this its one quite powerful ceo david
&háhp &hc% is actually doing everything possible to buttonq up the case before bringing it. so, you know, sure, he could at the end of the day f so far i see no signs that s what s going on. yeah, and i appreciate your guiding us towards looking at what we have. we have confirmed information, ãcludingpy trump la■y rs, they were offered the chance to face the grand jury, donald trump himself, which would be something asw.(rpáed with a >9 then you have his own bluster. and then we have the witnesses that we know about, whichu show how close we are to thed potential end. you said the word sordid. there are many words one could attach to all of this. but in the legale1 criminal pros;)s, sordid of course is not indictable. unethical is often not indictable. you could have terrible ethics that may take you out of all sorts ofe1 situations, but that doesn t mean you will end up bev)s e1 bars.