deadly school shooting in nashville. we will have the latest for you on a story that has, of course, again brought up the gun crisis and public health epidemic we face in america. we begin to the top story out of the grand jury investigating donald trump who =uqestigating donald trump who owne1 predicted arrest whichfá didn t happen last week. he has addede1 it the possible criminal evidence against him by posting something that wew3 do t normalize here in the news or in america and that is violentfá imagery tempting furt)eu attacks, death threats, violence against the d.a. that is inve3(k the rule of law. the former president also lied over the weekend about this case which some evidence restatemñ that we re not airing tonight. from the public evidence we aren seeing a criminal probe thatfá continues to move steadily towards a finish line, whether it s indictments or not, no one knowse1 yet.e1 but they are progressing. final witnesses, key evidence. this probe is late
ñractually, the mueller gran jury and my voluntary interview theyñi specifically asked if i ever had dealt with the national enquirer which i said i had not, if you considered sortfá of media folks, let sw3 you know, each person in the office handles certain ones, that was michael and michael dealt witik themñi for many, ma years. i had told them that i had heard or i had to wait outside when david pecker wasçó meeting with then mr. trump and michael cohen in his office. i had seen david in the office throughout, you know, 2013, 2014. that was something that they brought back up into the grand g÷)u)y. i, you know, it( personally considered it exculpatory because i figured they were investigating the publicq recording that had come out about stormy daniels, the settlement. another issue that they were wondering about wasxd whether -
cohen dealt directly with each other and, obviously, then mr. trump. in terms of the catch and kills, that was long term though. i would like to be very clear about this. you know, there were meetings going on from 2012, 2014, so i don t know necessarily if it was only for the campaign as well, but certainly at thatt( time during the campaign it did benefit the campaign. let me read7• the campaign clearly, i mean, they benefitted and show some of that collaboration whether that reaches a legal threshold is a difficult, iw3 think, ques without more evidence. final quest$ú to you, joyce, and sam has walked us through joyce, how do prosecutors try to sq[uild beyond only campaign finance? because then, as sam reminded everyone, it hangs or falls on the jury s view of the criminal intent orq motivation in that window, in that october window, else, joyce, i mean, business records, tax, otherq things tha
kilter. trump tried to upend this public pr about the case with what can be described as a very unusual perhapsqi unprecedented predictn by a former president of his own arrest. that was supposed to be last tuesday. it proved inaccurate. tonight we can see d.a. bragg is continuing the work, legal investigative work. today they brought to key fact witness before this grand jury. someone who has cut deals with trump over the years and involved in efforts to try to shape media coverage when donald trump was the underdog and flailing in 2016. with an outlet that youq can se right here many consider aok ki of o.g. purveyor of totally fake news. i m talking about the tabloids, the national enquirer, u for salacious and sometimes quite misleading stories. most people know of this its one quite powerful ceo david
squirreling away supposed, quote, secrets for trump in a private safe and burying stories have derailed lptrump s campaig with public stories at that key and vulnerable point when he was very off balance over the access hollywood é@■scandal. donald trump is trying to detain deniable. that has been effective at times. one of michael cohen s tapes caught donald trump in the loop not only about these payments in general, but specifically about deals with david, who faced the grand juryt( today. david, the friend, over at the enquirer. i need to open upe1 a compan for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. the friend there, davidñã pecker, wouldn t prove to be a friend forever. that s back in the news tonight because if you follow this story it s pretty familiar, echoes of