authorities ramp up security. then, republicans quick to defend the twice impeached trump but some want to have their cake and eat it too. how will it all shake out in the 2024 race? and vladimir putin s visit with china s president just days after a warrant was issued for putin s arrest. what this relationship signals for the war in ukraine as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening. i am mehdi hasan in for stephanie ruhle. we are in the midst of an extraordinary moment in our nation s history. the people of america are watching, waiting to find out whether manhattan district attorney alvin bragg will bring criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, related to a hush money payment related to stormy daniels. it would mark the first indictment of a former president in u.s. history. the grand jury in the case heard from another witness today, attorney bob costello, robert costello, the new york times describing him as appearing, quote,
criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, related to a hush money payment related to stormy daniels. it would mark the first indictment of a former president in u.s. history. the grand jury in the case heard from another witness today, attorney bob costello, robert costello, the new york times describing him as appearing, quote, at the request of the former president s lawyers providing testimony aimed at attacking the credibility of the prosecution style witness. that star witness is former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. the times as that costello was once a legal adviser to cohen when he was facing a federal investigation into the hush money payment following his appearance. castilla s book about what he told of the grand jury. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer. stormy daniels had negative information that she wanted to put in a lawsuit against trump. michael cohen decided, on his own, that s what he told us
Get away from the glass [background sounds] neil how would you like to be in the middle of all of that . Fox on top of texas after a destructive and deadly storm touch down. Thiess seven confirmed dead in the houston area after wind gusts reached more than 100 mileperhour. Hundreds of thousands still without power, and were tracking the legal storms as well from the fixation over Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial to the folk on Hunter Bidens two upcoming trials. Will any of it matter to voters in november . And then the storm over my, shall we say, chat with the white house economic adviser Jared Bernstein after President Biden continues to say inflation was 9 percent when he took office. The facts see otherwise, it got nasty, and youll get to see for yourself. Neil good morning, everybody. Happy to have you, im neil cavuto. Lets get right to it with the latest in houston and the fallout from a storm that ended up being a lot worse than earlier thought. Lets get the latest from f
All, trump let the legal system sorted out. the problem is, the democrats, find no choice, just by happenstance, they are leading with their weakest case, that is a gift to trump. accounting misdemeanors, and he is a democratic elected senator, from their state or city, it s easy for the republican primary voters, to be like, wait a minute, even though i want to move beyond trump, they re going after him for accounting because he paid off a point, star did anybody indict bill clinton for a sex scandal? it doesn t have the power of georgia who tried to steal the election by leading on the republican secretary of state or the special counsel. so, what you want to do if you re running post trump, is not be a trump surrogate, but wait for the main course not this appetizer which is the lightest and weakest of charges against trump.
Only speaks to what is right now and just a baseless absence of any intellectual, ethical, or moral foundation on the part of the republican party right now. i think this is only the beginning of the story, in the presidential election. so let s keep talking about this presidential election, because trump is not just the former president, is a front runner in the gop presidential race right now. or this hypothetical trump alternative to may come later down the track, what would you say they should be saying right now, tonight. i think they should be the, saying it s time to move beyond all, trump let the legal system sorted out. the problem is, the democrats, find no choice, just by happenstance, they are leading with their weakest case, that is a gift to trump. accounting misdemeanors, and he is a democratic elected senator,