we know that the stand the daniels hush payments are part of this. the stormy daniels payments, but we don t know if there s more to it if there s more to it about falsification of records in the trump organization, particularly in light of the fact that the state attorney general brought a case where there were lots of different faults. financial statements, insurance fraud. bank fraud. so what i m looking for when this indictment comes out is to see exactly what the scope of this indictment charges . john you broke this story. the news that it s bigger than people had expected. 30 more than 30 different counts. do we have any insight into what some of those might be falsification of business records? but i wouldn t read too much or too little into you know the more than 30 counts because you know if i stole your a t m card? that would be a grand larceny, but they would charge me with one count of grand larceny for every time i used it, even though that s a single theft. um in
case, but we also knowt■ there s q%■■ation done by the new york attorney general s office, that when donald trump went in to be questioned about that in the deposition, he asserted his fifth amendment 450 times, which means there aree1 some 450 crim that he was questioned abouti■i■ i ve got to believe some of those could end up in x■this. nick, while you re giving us the legal analysis i want be tot■ give you theñi■ analysis we have this is donald n&o■■rump s plan mar-a-lago we also have cameras and eyes on trumpçó■ó■tower and trump areas. the former president did infamously predict his ownt■ arrest he was inaccurate about the date he clearly didn t know or made up that previous tuesday, butxd■
The Manhattan grand jury will most probably vote on Wednesday about whether to indict Trump for hush-money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign, NewsNation said on Tuesday, citing a source.
was said in some of those internal text messages pretty directly, almost word for word and now we re seeing the consequences. so david pecker did meet with prosecutors in this case that were dealing with this week and reportedly testified to the grand jury. what kind of information do you think he might be able to provide? well, it s interesting, when i was reporting on these hush payments through ami including karen mcdougal s story, the enquirer folks were lying to us and giving statements to us that it never happened and have you it all wrong and subsequently have had to admit to what was alleged in that reporting in sum and substance in their agreement with federal prosecutors. now when these individuals are talking to additional prosecutors after that admission, i think there s going to be a lot more information. what s remarkable about this, john, it is not new information. these facts are out there. you know, they were in my reporting, the wall street
that he lost the election hush payments are not is a much bigger issue. but hush payments in and of themselves are not illegal. however, falsifying business record, a misdemeanor, commission with another crime can be a felony. your point is not lost in the idea of this being a part of a campaign i mean, you can imagine a mug shot of a former president who once chanted, lock her up, calling about political witch hunts. yes, laura, if this happens for donald trump, this is going to be a gift for him, i believe, politically, at least in the republican primary process. because i actually don t agree that the majority of republican voters have moved on from trump because he still tops all of the polls right now. but if this happens for him, let s remember, donald trump s focus has always been victimhood and has always been, you know, that he is being attacked, the witch hunt, right?