hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
in the actual trial to explain, defend, or perhaps confess to why they aired live in many ways that led to or softened the ground for an insurrection. that is why this is a media story, but far more than a media story. the evidence has shown many knew trump was lying tatting election, but they, quote, endorsed it any way, and that word comes from murdoch himself. the reason this is in court is not because of the january 6th committee or congress or media matters, which is a fox kind of critic group. the reason is that somebody says they were legally hurt and defamed by fox, specifically one of the voting machine companies you may have heard of, dominion. today, damning new evidence as the case heats up. more emails show the internal fox news fact checking department they have one of those that is supposed to provide guardrails it fact-checked in advance and alerted some of the claims about that plaintiff, the voting machine company dominion, were just false. and then th
karen fáfreedmant( served as th chief assistantçó district attorney in the manha(ép d.a. s office.w3 both joined me now. michael cohen testified that trump had a lengthy relationship. have a listen. i was involvedñr in several these catch-and-killçó episodes. these catch-and-killt( scenario existed between david pecker and mr. trump along before i starte1 working for him in 2007. karen, explainxd us to the significance of david pecker coming back to testify to the grand jury today. yeah, so, there isn tñ2hp lo of question of factok here abou whether or not payments were made. that s not going to be proven by books and records, including the fact that these payments that were made, 11 of themjfñr while trump w+w■ sitting presmant, were made and false entriesxd we retainers. the question that is really for the grand juryw3 to decide ñiis3 trump involved in these payments? did he know about them? did hew3 know about the purpose? did he know that these
fundamentally aligned. as we stand at this inflection point in history, i had a professor who once explained the infection point as you re going down the highway at 60 miles an hour, you rapidly turn and run a direction 5 degrees, and never get back on the same path again, but you re on a different course. whether the decisions we make in the coming years will determine the course of our world for decades to come. it happens every five or six generations, but we re at that point. nothing gives me greater confidence in the future that knowing canada and the united states stand together still. today i d like to speak a little bit about the future if i may. a future that s ours to seize. you know, i get criticized at home sometimes for saying that i used to always for president obama used to kid me because i d always say in our private meetings, the country is never more optimistic than its president or its leaders. i ve never been more optimistic in my life i really mean th