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york grand jury about hush money payments to stormy daniels and whether there s an indictable offense there. the new york times says criminal charges are likely, and the star witness testifying before the grand jury for over three hours today. yes, it s someone you probably recognize if you follow the news, michael cohen, who was a loyal trump lawyer until he wasn t, who served hard time for a related offense in the federal courts this is a grand jury presentation that the grand jury could be reaching its conclusion cohen expected to come back for more testimony wednesday if you re thinking a lot changed last week, that seems to be the case if you re thinking it is barrelling forward this week, that seems to be the case. and he also spoke outside of the grand jury proceeding. i feel fine i have been dealing with the same issues now for more than five years, so i feel fine this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. it s th ....
Msnbc audience might say, neal, ari, i ve heard this before. 2016, stormy daniels heard of that a long time ago. what can you point to in the public evidence that suggests perhaps the d.a. is going somewhere now? i think there are two possibilities, ari either the d.a. is making his last steps to just wrap up the investigation and close it or that he s doing it for the t launch an indictment against donald trump both are certainly possible at this point reading the tea leaves i do think an indictment is more likely, and i base that on a couple of things. one is they re bringing in michael cohen for, like, the 20th time before the prosecutors. cohen s now been before the prosecutors more times than donald trump lies on a sunday. it s an extraordinary amount and now before the grand jury, not just the prosecutors that s one sign. another fact is the manhattan d.a. investigated this a while ....