what do you think are the chances you can get an acquittal? i would not comment. reporter: she was detained on february 17th. prosecutors claiming she was carrying two vaping cartridges with about .07 oil a crime in russia that can carry a sentence of up to ten years in praise colony. the u.s. considers her being rong wrongfully detained. wrongful detention is unacceptable where ever it occurs. the united states government, at the very high e est levels is working hard to bring mi miss griner as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. reporter: her trial starts as tensions between the u.s. and russia have reached a boiling point. not just over rusrussia s invas of ukraine. the u.s. is calling for immediate release of former marine paul whelan who was sentenced to sf years. they also said the trial was not political. the facts say a prominent athlete was detained in possession of prohibits substances that contained drugs. reporter: after about
If they just do on wise guys. I cant believe how things keep going our way. Wise guys a buddy comedy about a two low level gang centers who work for a Mafia Don Named Costello and get into all sorts of high jinx. Probably not the highlight of Danny Devitos long and successful career but it was sort of the high point for his costar joe piskapoe. He wept onto play a hapless mobster from the 1930s alongside Michael Keyton from the movie dangerously. Two years later he played a modern version of the same character in wise guys. After that he did not get a lot of other leading roles until today when joe piscopo was among the retinue of Odd Characters who came to a manhattan courthouse to support donaldma trump. The witness on the stand was Robert Costello, the Trump Affiliated Lawyer who Michael Cohen says pressured cohen to stay loyal to donald trump. Now, you might say to yourself is it really a good idea to have a criminal defendant, donald trump, sitting next to joe piscopo, a guy named
If any of the neighbors want to come and speak to me about what they saw on that block, you have an open invitation. A great segment. Do you remember the 1980s mobsters comedy, wiseguys. Its part of the grand design. The mob is willing to forgive them. If he will just do one simple thing. Wiseguys. Wiseguys. A comedy about two loadable gangsters played by joe piscopo and danny devito, who work for a mafia done called castillo. Probably not the highlight of Danny Devitos successful career, it was the high point for joe piscopo. He had a run as a cast member on saturday night live, where he was known for Playing Gangster Adjacent characters like his half decent frank sinatra. He played a mobster from the 1930s with michael keaton. Then a more modern version of the same character in wiseguys. After that joe piscopo didnt get a lot of other leading roles until today. When he got a late career break is a different kind of lackey. Today he was among the odd characters that came to the Manhat
very jail. one day ahead of the former president. he shows up there tomorrow. we know that for sure and we re getting reporting it will be later in the day, afternoon into the evening. we re watching all that as the special counsel s office is looking into whether donald trump s employees actually lied to a grand jury regarding another case, the classified documents case out of florida. there is a lot going on. look, prosecutors believe that an i.t. worker who has not been charged in this case and a property manager who has that they falsely testified about he was to delete security camera footage at mar-a-lago. jack smith s office says at least one of those workers changed his story after switching his lawyer away from a trump affiliated lawyer. with his now cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig. we are talking about yuscil taveras, the head of i.t. at mar-a-lago. goes into the grand jury the first time and says i don t know
any way to demean and to discredit these witnesses. it s no surprise that we have seen trump world mobilize on this specific detail because what they are trying to signal to rest of the country is this partisan witch hunt, to use the word of donald trump and it can be disregarded. we know that s not good enough. when most of what she said was first hand accounts. this was one of the only, if not the only hearsay incident that she recounted but that s what they are going after. then there s a letter that up with of the lawyers said he had written. i want to get to the payments because there s lot of scrutiny on who is paying these lawyers representing the witnesses. your colleagues today are reporting that former president trump s political organization are footing the bill for at least a dozen committee witnesses. what are the imply kag