but yes, i think the purpose was to get his supporters rile up i think that he wants to try and cause a scene and mayb he s thinking it is mind tha that will make the prosecutors change their mind on if they want to actually go through th stress and the issues that com with donald trump. joining me now is washingto post congressional resignation reporter, msnbc contributor, jacqueline alemany and forme federal prosecutor a political legal affairs columnist, renat mariotti welcome to you both, renato, were you listening to th conversation i had with michae cohen just now and if so, your thoughts on his statements and he s going to be a rebutta witness potentially tomorrow i the new york - the manhattan da s case? i think it s very interesting. and suggested maybe the lock somebody in as a witness who i not a person of th government s team. so to speak. a lot of times, you are puttin out witnesses before the grand jury that are essentially just
district attorney s office tomorrow cohen spoken to prosecutor almost two dozen times and he says that will be going in - testimony. whether it s before the grand jury, or it s just t meet with them for an interview, again, i m not sure. but yes, i was asked to make myself available and to be at the da s office tomorrow, as a rebutta witness. and nbc s learned the witness counting michael cornice as former legal adviser, robert costello. stella previously represente steve bannon and rudy giuliani costello says the trump s lega team asked him to testify. the manhattan da has decline to comment, the office i already preparing for unrest making sure staff, after trump s call for protests, and an internal email obtained by nbc the district attorney writin quote, please know that your safety is our top priority we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office, o threaten the rule of law new york
child s classroom is next? we ll look at that ahead for you to we re gonna start with an msnb explosive, michael cohen sayin he will appear as a rebuttal witness before the grand jur in a new york tomorrow i did receive a whole sle of phone calls from journalists, asking me if i m going to be back to the da s offic tomorrow as a rebuttal witness to whoever it is that they re bringing their tomorrow whethe it s before the grand jury o it s just to meet with him for an interview i m not sure yes, i was asked to make mysel available and to be at the da office tomorrow as a rebutta witness. that as trump claims he expects to be arrested as soon as tuesday we learned that yesterday. and that hadn t da alvin bragg since saying his office will
working, news 4 s, of just a former trump fixer michael cohen telling msnbc exclusivel just minutes ago that he is no done with the grand jury in th manhattan da s case. he ll be back as a rebutta witness indicating that trum team may have called their own witnesses. we ll have the latest on tha just coming up it comes in the wake of donald trump s prediction he ll b arrested tuesday which is now sparked a defined message on the manhattan d pursuing the case. and an ugly response from th former president as well this, as kevin mccarth threatens to use the force o the republican house majorit against da alvin bragg, th reaction from both sides has been coming fast and furious it s not clear to me what committee speaker may be referring to perhaps the so-calle weaponization committee whic is really more appropriately named the committee to protect insurrectionists just feels like a politically-charged prosecutio
firm and that was being offered as motive why he goes home and kills his wife and son, which we thought it was illogical and ludicrous, there is no evidence linking one to another and we did not think it should come in. not only did that come in but every other financial misdeeds that they could bring in over the last 10 or 15 years was allowed in. we think that we strongly object and we respect the judge s decision but we believe that was erroneous decision. we believe the judge was some wha because of the conclusion of the case, when m mmr. m mmmr. meadors was at rebutta just have to prove malice. which is right, why did they go