today, costello issued a statement in which he advised the manhattan da to call a timeout and decidedly can go forward to this case and this witness. meanwhile, people who have recently been to mar-a-lago say there is a war room mentality with a possible indictment looming. with that, let s bring in our lead off panel. yamiche alcindor, nbc correspondent and moderator of washing week on pbs. josh harrison, as senior political affairs commentator for political. former u.s. attorney joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. and harry lippman, also former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. thank you all on this busy night. let me start with you, josh. the post reports that trump s lawyer will have to hand over documents. but what about giving testimony? where do things stand on, that josh? but, while we do believe that he s going to have to give testimony. usually the two things go hand in hand, mehdi. we do think that powell, when she issued this
had hope and costello would undercut michael cohen s testimony. today, costello issued a statement in which he advised the manhattan da to call a timeout and decidedly can go forward to this case and this witness. meanwhile, people who have recently been to mar-a-lago say there is a war room mentality with a possible indictment looming. with that, let s bring in our lead off panel. yamiche alcindor, nbc correspondent and moderator of washing week on pbs. josh harrison, as senior political affairs commentator for political. former u.s. attorney joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. and harry lippman, also former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general.
they won t vote for the indictment to move forward. are they could clear it off at the beginning of next week. really, anything as possible. yamiche, we know there is intense, quote unquote, war room mentality at mar-a-lago right now. what do we know about trump going on politically behind the scene? well, in this case, i feel like we know about what s going on. it s a lot about what president, former president trump is saying a loud. which is he s pointing videos,, against entering himself as the victim. he s against sort of having this team of allies g.o.a.t. and say this is all about a politically motivated issue and it isn t about the fact that he may or may not have broken the law. we also know just based on nbc news reporting that he is, of course, talking to lawyers, very closely monitoring this, possibly getting ready to possibly have to make arrangements to come to new york. i think what is interesting is you had lawyers that are publicly saying it s an all out war. so it
nbc news he is focused on the economy and bolstering budget proposals while his team monitors trump s calls for protests. the other side of all of this is vastly different. trump has falsely publicly claimed he was going to be arrested two days ago while reporting by nbc tells us he is trying to benefit politically by creating a media spectacle with a, quote, war room mentality. now permeating his mar-a-lago home and nerve center of his 2024 campaign. let s bring in cornell belcher and research and msnbc contributor matt dowd is still with us. speak to what biden s silence means in the manhattan d.a. case and in the work of the broader justice department. such a contrast to somebody like trump who never hesitates to pressure officials to get his way even as a former president and as a president he would weigh in on things that people would have preferred him to stay out of. right. well, there is two problems
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