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manhattan, prosecutors have spoken to stormy daniels in the hush money investigation her lawyer says she s willing to be a witness if needed it also appears michael cohen is finished with his time in front of the grand jury. he told reporters yesterday that he has not been subpoenaed for additional testimony or documents. and that it appears to him that a charging decision could come soon so how is donald trump and his team reacting? we have details on that as well. joining me from atlanta is blayne alexander and in west palm beach to the former president s former home is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard blayne, i ll start with you. talk to me about this call well, katie, this is a major development. before yesterday we didn t know that a recording existed and we didn t know that it was one of the pieces of evidence considered and put before the body investigating the former president for potentially meddling in the 2020 election. we know this came to light beca ....
Having conversations about governor desantis role in this, the state attorney s office here, local sheriff s office that sort of becomes a little messy. so far, though, i think it s important to note that trump and his legal counsel have not suggested that he would not comply, despite the fact that they say this is what they believe to be a politicized prosecutal effort. michael cohen is ntexting me right now. he says they believe everything i have said is truthful but they don t believe that i have told them everything. vaughn hillyard, blayne alexander, thank you much. joining me now is legal analyst charles coleman. i want to start with the extradition question first i don t want to get ahead of ourselves because he has not been indicted, charged. sure. and we don t know if he will. right. and that s important to put out there. but if he does and, say, he does not show up to either georgia or manhattan, desantis would have ....
Acquittal. there s no chance in america of this not being seen as double jeopardy. you can t try someone for the same crime twice. they call that the way their appeals system works. paul, before we get to that, that will be the crucial question on the extradition question. i want to ask this. it seems so many people assume it s a bad justice system, they didn t do it right. still, reasonable doubt is a very difficult thing to prove and it has never been you know, that s a matter of a subjective comment. it s not as if everyone knows what happened that night. they don t. how can we say their system is bad because she got convicted? i don t think you can say that and i don t think it s fair to say that. with the italian system it s different than ours. it s a sort of combined judge and jury system. you have a judge and sometimes two judges and then laypeople who sit on the court and hear the evidence. that s on the lower court, the trial court. it s in the middle level court and ....
Extradition. then, once that happens, she is going to get a chance to fight it in the united states if that s the case. lisa, they would have to appeal to the obama administration my understanding for this, would it be a good or bad idea for the obama administration to take her side? look. first much all, i have to get the supreme court in italy to affirm the conviction. they have already dismissed it once. i think there is a strong likelihood they could dismiss it again and avoid this whole extradition question. if it should come to the point that the italian government asks for extradition, the u.s. in italy have a very strong extradition policy. it s built on years of cases they have worked together. organized crime. we currently work with them with heroin trafficking. it would be difficult for the u.s. to look to italy and say we think that your laws are flawed and we don t believe that your judiciary made the right call. anna, i disagree with that. here is the thing though ....