davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha
Organized crime cases are wo by prosecutors and they put on as witnesses, people of lied and committed crimes michael cohen did live for ten years. but he owned those lies an went public in front of chairman cummings and national television he said i am ashamed of my lies, i m telling the truth for my country and my children. and this is something that a jury will have to decide t weigh michael s credibility. i also already said if it is a problem with michael s credibility, it can be sur that he is backed up multipl times with documents, phon calls, emails. he is not his word for anything it is corroborating everything he says. are you at all concerne about threats of violenc directed towards michael cohen or perhaps even yourself a this case gets underway? so owed rather not answer that question. i m told that people who are professionals, that yo encourage crazy people if yo
Of the criticism that this is potentially weak indictment, that involves a quote, unquote untested legal theory that might be politically motivated first of all, let me deal with the weakness facts. that is completely speculate by people who don t know i think. i am in the room all the time, for many meanings, at leas seven, with this particula group of prosecutors i ve talked to michael countless hours. i know what the facts are in the case and it is substantiated by o documents, emails, tex messages, telephone calls. it is a very strong factua case - to the jury. what is donald trump motivated by politics when he directed michael cohen to pay the hundred $30, 000, not connecte to him, rip for the election with the promise to be repaid? and he didn t repay him. while he was president of th united states that is the question for the jury to decide they will have to decide
The prosecutors resigned quite publicly, has now admitted tha he gave his resignation letter to the new york times. and there are a lot of reall disparaging things in that letter alvin bragg withstood all of that and stuck to his guns as career prosecutor and kept his head down and investigated and i really just think that i he is willing to do that, ther has to be something new. there has to be new evidence there is to be teams that du into the facts more to develop evidence that would satisfy hi as to why this was now a righteous case when it wasn before so i strongly think that we ar going to see evidence that was developed in that year when he was in office. andrew, you and i hav spoken many times on thi network. but this is the first time w have you on my show. thank you so much for coming on hopefully it will not be the last we will the talking to man
Clearly been able to make case against donald trump. otherwise, we wouldn t be in this point take us through how you thin he was able to do that how do you think he was able to, i guess, bring back to lif this case, so to speak do you believe that there must have been some new information that has come to light or that he has become aware of that has brought this back t the top of his priority list i do. that is what i would call an educated guess we are going to know a lot mor on tuesday, when the indictments and seal it will likely be the speaking indictment it will be references to som of, not all, but some of the evidence and we may learn more than we know now about tha evidence i guess i suspect that there i a reason that alvin brag initially, when he took office he had real background any too a political hit by saying this case is not ready, and one o