They need outside securitiers knelt, solid doors that are locked. slow the killers down. stop them before they get had in there so we can prevent this. i thank you very much for being with us this morning from nashville. now to the latest on the investigation surrounding former president trump. the new york city grand jury investigating $130,000 hush money payment made to a film actress is not scheduled to meet today, but it did meet yesterday and heard from former inquirer who helped arrange that paumt it s the second known appearance. resources familiar with the matter say they did not take a vote. trump hasn t stopped slamming the investigations against him. here he is on fox news last night. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. in my opinion, it s a new way of
Investigating former president donald trump is set to meet again tomorrow and this comes after they adjourned monday following new testimony from former national inquirer publisher david pecker over trump s alleged hush money payment to stormy daniels. cnn s paula reid is following all of these developments has been for weeks. paula how does pecker pecker factor in here? this could be a critical witness for the prosecution way back in october, 2016 pecker was the head of the company that published the national enquirer and a short time before the 2016 election. a representative for stormy daniels reached out and said she was ready to go public with her story about an alleged affair with then candidate trump an affair, which he has consistently denied. pecker flag this for then candidates then personal attorney, michael cohen , who then arranged a hush money payment of 130,000. dollars that is now at the center of the manhattan d. a s investigation and it s notable jazz. that
Sheeting on elections. it s called election interference. with us now to talk more about this is garrett haake in new york city and charles coleman, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor in brooklyn. so garrett, what do we know about david s role in the payment? reporter: he s a central figure this all of this. he was the person who connected michael cohen and stormy daniels and he was a central figure in an earlier payment to another model, where the national inquirer bought her life story to keep it silent and out of the media. so his role could be important here. it suggests he might have been rebutting another witness s testimony or clearing up some of the details about the accounting, the timeline about perhaps when trump knew about either of these payments, which could be central to the case that the da is putting together.
The week. now this is just a day after the grand jury heard from the former national inquirer publisher and former trump ally, david pecker, who actually helped arrange and coordinate the hush money payment to stormy daniels out front, now cnn legal senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid as well as ryan goodman, of course, this former special counsel the defense department. so paula, you ve been doing so much reporting here on all of this. um this is now the second straight week where all eyes have been on the grand jury. and you know, i understand. no one was promised. this was going to happen, but there was the expectation is going to happen. it s going to happen, and here we are. it s not going to be in two weeks. um where it s not what s going on here? so trump clearly said that expectation right with his post about being arrested last tuesday, which even his own team said wasn t based on anything. prosecutors just don t believe they re done with their investigation. they re
Pecker, that s his name, the publisher or former publisher of the national inquirer interviewed by the grand jury today, that would make it his second appearance in front of this grand jury based on the late breaking development alone, clearly whether the twice impeacheded ex-president likes it or not the work of manhattan district attorney alvin bragg continues and the american people prepare for a possible indictment, it appears the majority of them agree that investigations are all above board and necessary. a brand new poll leased by npr-pbs news hour reveals 56% of all investigations into the, ex-president, including doj s, are fair. just 41% they re a witch hunt. where have they heard that? joining us katie fang, host of the katie fang show and new
Issuing a statement at this stage in ukraine, officials there saying there s going to be a lot of people against the inside inside belarus and it could destabilize the country. european leaders are calling on belarus to push back and to resist the kremlin s embrace. pan back to you, matthew chance in moscow. thank you, attorney to our politics lead now. a bombshell witness before the manhattan grand jury investigating donald trump s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to adult film actress stormy daniels before the 2016 election. former national inquirer publisher david pecker , a key player in the hush money payments scheme, met with the grand jury. today we ve learned cnn s paula reid is live outside the new york courtroom for us, paula how does having pecker as a witness? add to our understanding of where this investigation stands and the timing of any potential indictment? well pamela this was an appearance that was shrouded in secrecy. pecker entered the court and exited in
Beach in the yucatan. yes flavor of the region. longoria searching for mexico sunday at nine. a key player in the trump hush money probe just met with the manhattan grand jury investigating the former president. the source confirms to cnn that former national inquirer publisher david pecker appeared before the panel earlier this afternoon. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula rita s joining us from just outside the courthouse in new york. she s got details, paula. why did the grand jury want to hear from david pecker? well, wolf pecker was involved in these hush money schemes to get stormy daniels and at least one other woman to stay silent about alleged affairs with former president trump. his appearance comes exactly one week after attorney robert costello testified before the grand jury at the request of defense attorneys. during costello s appearance, he attacked the credibility of the
Is now experiencing a new reality. dating kendall jenner. a lot of change since then. nick jonas is now married to sophie turner, oh no, priyanka chopra. that s true jonas. and donald trump won from a reality star facing op-eds in the national enquirer to becoming the actual president of the united states. we now know that trump s relationship with the national enquirer was more sinister than then just sort of ridiculous. that same month of the op-ed, august of 2015, trump had a meeting with the publisher of the inquirer, david pecker, which the new york times reports that pecker promised to publish positive stories but trump negative stories about his opponent. cover stories like hillary six, months to live and hillary, going to jail. those stories ran in the month after that meeting. but most importantly, at that august 2015 meeting, the publisher of the inquirer agreed to work with trump s personal lawyer, michael cohen,
President in 2016, he was no longer punchline. after the excess account of black silk pjs and pen pals, that became supercharged with the potential to be a real political scandal. the plan trump hatched with the publisher of the inquirer, that plane went into action. trump lawyer michael cohen about the story. he caught it and he killed it. and trump allegedly paid cohen back for that to the tune of $130,000. you could argue that we would not be where we are right now, awaiting a possible criminal indictment of donald trump, had not been for the dog reporting of key journalists at the law street journal. michael rust belt and joe powell zola are the first reporters to break the story of michael cohen arranging the 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels in 2018. team at the journal that worked at several more scoops of the payment to daniels and karen mcdougal a former playboy model who allege
Corroborate what he has to say. prosecutors often have to include accomplices to the crime or some bad actors, especially when they re prosecuting, for example, organized crime, so you re going to have some prosecutors witnesses like that who have flipped and are cooperating that aren t the most appealing characters and have done things like lie in the past and committed past crimes. you need to go through and corroborate everything. there is corroboration in the form of checks that are written by donald trump and audio recording with donald trump and michael cohen and other witnesses that can testify as well. part of this involved the national inquirer and they have even a public document with the federal prosecutors that explains their role in the scheme, and that it was done to influence the election. it s a lot of corroboration. it s a question of whether that can be put together in such a way it would convince the jury. that is the open question. you also have, of course, a d.a