But i think worth merited meriting a mention one. quick final point. lenny, you told dana bash my friend yesterday that both michael cohen and david pecker from the national enquirer provided evidence about a hush money payment that could be illegal made on trump s behalf to karen macdougal, a former playmate. play playboy model in the summer of 2016, so that would have been before the payment to stormy daniels. are you aware of any evidence on this that would implicate donald trump directly? well, i was you summarize what i said correctly , erin, but i was quoting from the wall street journal article. i can t reveal what i heard and saw in the room when michael was interviewed the documents and clearly there have been public reports that mr pecker was granted immunity and that michael cohen pled guilty to two crimes. one was the stormy daniels hush money paid. the other was his facilitation of an arrangement between mr pecker and mr trump for the buying of silence of karen mcdougal. s
They say these have been working . in fact, they say that they ve raised $7 million since trump was indicted. alright our team of reporters are standing by with the latest developments in these hours before trump s formal arraignment. i want to begin with kara scannell because she s outfront live in new york outside that courthouse and carol, we know the president obviously is in manhattan and huddling with his advisers. what more you learning about what s to come tonight and tomorrow? well erin, as you said, we re still waiting for the judge to rule on two motions by the media . cnn and other news organizations have asked for there to be cameras in the courtroom, saying that given the huge public interest in this the historical nature of it and then like just the moment monumental moment that we re going to experience here for the first time in our nation s history, we re asking for there to be cameras in the courtroom so the public can watch the arraignment unfold. trump s legal team
Going to see some of the security here tightened, and that s why more of these barriers tomorrow and obviously more police officers will be out here. through the day tomorrow. erin. all right, shimon. thank you very much. and shimon is there now and we ll be there tomorrow. and, of course, tonight we wait for that crucial decision on cameras in the courtroom as well as whether that indictment is unsealed in these next hours tonight. lanny davis is with me now. michael cohen s attorney, lanny, good to have you back. so obviously we re waiting tonight on judge merchants, so he s expected to make these these crucial decisions on cameras. ah there are security concerns for that team. trump opposes cameras, they say. for that reason, they say it will create a circus like atmosphere at the arraignment. where do you stand on this? what do you think the judge will decide? well i tend to favor transparency not only because the media deserves transparency under our system of justice, but also be
Whether to break charges. thank you very much, and i want to go now to ty cobb. the former trump white house lawyer. so ty evans reporting here he s talking about a vast amount of evidence in the mar-a-lago documents case that we didn t know about right and that this is, you know, text. this is this is photos. these are witnesses who have been questioned about what they saw in trump s private residential as well as his work areas. so what do you hear when you hear all these details? so let s let s remember erin. we knew that these these documents had been subpoenaed and or seized during the search warrant and that they got videos they got, um, host of additional documentation, and they have had access both prior to that, and subsequently to many of the employees and mar-a-lago to interview them about particular attention movements of documents what the president was doing with the boxes in which some of
York to protest control yourselves. york city is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger. if one is court participated in any act of violence, they will be arrested and held accountable. no matter who you are. prokupecz is outfront at the courthouse and shimon, what is the latest you re hearing tonight? well, erin, certainly this is the area we are going to see. the former president arrived and surrender . it s just up the block here in the middle of the street here, where the former president will be. coming to his motorcade arriving here sometime tomorrow are either late morning or early afternoon and here, let me just show you around there in the courthouse, the barricades that are already set up. we have officers who are usually not out here at this time, the court officers, but they are keeping security pretty tight. they re keeping watch all across the building. and then let me just