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legal adviser to trump attorney michael cohen is expected to testify before a new york grand jury and michael cohen has said he s been called as a potential rebuttal witness to costello. that grand jury could issue an indictment or indictments against former president donald trump any day now and trump has called for protests if that happens. we are outside the new york city courthouse watching for the arrival of witnesses this morning. plus, we re also keeping a very close eye on u.s. markets this hour, futures in the green, that s a good thing, but this is after switzerland s largest bank scooped up its rival credit suisse in an emergency rescue deal. plus chinese president xi jinping in moscow at this hour, set to meet with russian president vladimir putin. a closer look at what that means as putin is facing an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. we will get to all of that but we begin this hour with kara scannell who is outside the courthouse ....
on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidentia ....
weeks ago. what we could learn when the document comes out. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former united states senator and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. we wake up to some news this morning. a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate will be made available to the public by at least noon today, possibly this morning. federal magistrate judge rhinehart yesterday ordered it to be unsealed after the justice department submitted the redacted version for him to review. in the order, he outlined which sections of the affidavit the government redacted before public release, saying, i find the government has met its burden of finding a compelling reason, a good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. because disclosure would reveal the ....
Conspiracy charges and going beyond that would be a rack rack a tear influenced and corruptions act, rico which could basically if they wanted to do it in fulton county, georgia, allow them to replicate the presentation of the january 6th committee about the whole nationwide plot that georgia was so central to allegedly with mr. trump and others focusing on that state as they hoped the first domino that would cause many others to topple. so the da has to choose, does she want a simple case that she could put on in a week or two, or these rico cases, she did that with the atlanta teacher cheating scandal, they can take months, but sometimes the jury wants a bigger case to deliver bigger sentences. well, we will be watching for developments wherever they may come this week. ....
What do you make of sort of the testimony that would have been available to fani willis to prove that he knew he lost and he was trying to really bulldoze and threaten and overturn a result knowing that he had lost the state of georgia in 2020? one of the disadvantages in the way that january 6th and everything that happened before has been reported is often we don t have a chance to do the timeline. and to do the context of the timeline. that is essential to a good prosecution. so the jury understands exactly what happened when. i agree with barb that, you know, the prosecutor shouldn t go too big or too small. on the other hand, this is a prosecutor, they had 11 guilty pleas and a bunch of convictions on a teacher cheating scandal. and one of the advantages of using this umbrella prosecution ....