what i would say is the same team, working with the sam type of professionalism, the same type of team all thei active investigation nbc has news has learned tha he s meeting this weekend to discuss their strategy prosecutors in infected an testify before a grand jur next week but did not issue subpoena at one of trump s lawyer telling them the forme president had no plans to meet with the manhattan distric attorney s office. meantime, nbc also confirm trump s former personal lawyer michael cohen has to testify from the grand jury this monday cohen has says he gave storm daniels $130,000 on trump orders to keep her from coming forwar for the 2016 election. joining me now to discuss msnb legal analyst lisa reuben. lisa, alvin bragg also ver careful very cautious in terms of what he can and cannot say. your sense of what is happenin in an investigation like thi as it appears that things ar coming to a head i think you said it exactl right things are coming to a head michael co
credible or desirable of cooperators in this case and that is why you see th manhattan da trying to cooperate cohen s story throug a variety of other people wh touched on what i woul characterize as a conspiracy t sideline stormy daniels. that velocity people from th inquiry that i mentioned, it involves keith davidson who wa the spaniels s lawyer. it involves kellyanne conway who might have had conversations both cohen and trump about what the understood, the purpose of tha payments to be all of that is an effort by th manhattan da s office i thin to shore up the chilea credibility of michael cohen asked the center of this criminal violation , disciple we got about 30 seconds left but i do want t ask you. we have reporting that trump i huddling with his lawyers in florida. your sense of what those conversations are likely t look like based on his traits or his truth or his untruths, a michael cohen said, i thin they are planning on characterizing this as relianc
one about this united states supreme court in the signa that has been set to the lower courts right? that s what makes this cas unique is that rather than having doctors or clinics bein the lena gates or plaintiffs here you have five women including both who wer literally nearly at deat before there was medical intervention now these women are fighting back we ve not seen a case like thi before because after casey, it was really the clinics tha were hard to get in. less so, directly the women. it was indirectly against th women. in this case, i wonder if you believe that it could se precedent for other states i also wonder with what we r watching out of california wit governor newsom, with the push back against walgreens, if tha is a move you think you can se replicated in other states sure. absolutely the government and media pus back against walgreens california lawmakers said that
in and give his side of th story to the grand jury are as clear as indications o anything that this is coming t add. lisa, it is my understandin that this is a legally complex case what are the challenges of pursuing this investigation as a possible felony case yeah, the problem here is, would say the conundrum here is, in order to conver falsification of busines records into a felony under ne york law, you have to show tha it was done in furtherance of, or to conceal another crime. and with that other crime is has lots of people including me, scratching their heads and the reason is as follows it is not clear under new york law whether that second or underlying crime would be federal crime. everybody knows that michael cohen pled guilty to campaig finance violations and the southern district of new york, into michael cohen is very clear to identify trum as the individual. he violated federal campaign finance. it is not clear whethe manhattan da can use tha
more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term in the united states, then having a abortion michelle, i m just so struc to buy this headline out o florida. you have the state legislato looking to advance a six-wee abortion ban this comes less than a yea after governor desantis signed into effect a 15-week abortion ban. can we pull back up the ma that shows the states wher abortion is currently banned look at that map i want you to now imagine yo have a six-week ban in florida one, what does that mean for the people of florida, and wha does it mean for the people in all of those other states fo whom florida might have been one of their last better options? it s a great question alicia i really appreciate how much you ve looked this up. what the governor says that he will find is a proposed ba that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy in this case, it would allow exceptions for rape or incest. but only up to 15 weeks. and only if you can show proof