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i m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump ....
So this is right now a live and supersized edition of the beat. i m ari melber. we are watching all the fallout from donald trump saying this weekend that he ll be arrested. that means he could become the first president ever arrested and indicted. the d.a. of new york appears to be poised to wrap up this probe. and that means either they reach a declination, they don t charge him, or when the probe ends they do. an indictment of trump would be significant and literally historic. here s how the new york times puts it. he would be fingerprinted. he would be photographed. and based on the truth social posts over the past few days, the threat clearly has trump rattled. i ve told you if you ve been watching earlier, or you re just joining us now at the top of the 5:00 p.m., mr. michael cohen, who was down on the premises today where the grand jury was meeting, joins me live. that s in our next hour. so you may be interested to stick around for that. but we have a lot going on now. maya ....
This is an image right here from the filing itself, where they say that this cartoon you see sort of in black and white courtesy of one of her campaign twitter accounts depicts her, the d.a., fishing. a recently subpoenaed witness out of a swamp. and they say that kind of cartoon, a political cartoon, could influence witnesses, it s not appropriate in this kind of investigation of this significance and that it undercuts the idea that this is an independent and apolitical probe. they also take aim at public comments that you may recall by the grand jury foreperson and comments five other juries have made in the local press and which have been made nationally. the filing saying, collectively those juror statements reveal a tainted process incapable of producing valuable evidentiary material and throughout that foreperson s media tour and subsequent statements of additional grand jurors it became apparent this grand jury was improperly supervised or worse, improperly instructed from the ....
I m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump. so, this would ....
We ll be with you and anchoring through 7:00 p.m. we have a lot coming up including mr. cohen s appearance with me assuming he is available and free in the 6:00 p.m. hour. we also have bombshell news out of a different probe. down in georgia, today is the day that trump s lawyers came through with an attack not only on the grand jury report but any potential future indictment so we ve read through that motion. it s brand new and explain why that s new and look at why is this happening right now? meanwhile, congress is now jumping into this all of a sudden, republicans saying they want the d.a. from new york to testify and some are echoing donald trump s attack on the rule of law while others are urging calm. we have that entire story for you including who is actually being careful and who is not with some of our politics and lawyers ahead. stay with us. ....