trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid, she s just outside the courthouse in manhattan. paula, a former legal adviser to trump s ex lawyer, michael cohen, wrapped up his appearance just a little while ago. give us the latest. reporter: that s right, wolf, that adviser, rob costello, and michael cohen left the courthouse a short time ago, though cohen was available to testify today, he was not called before the grand jury. he s already testified before them twice, and he was only going to testify today to rebut this adviser called by trump s team to attack cohen s credibility. the manhattan d.a. s investigation into trump s alleged role in hush money payments made to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election is moving ahead full steam. i went in there today to tell these people the truth about who the real michael cohen is and
subvert our democracy. donald trump himself claiming this is all an effort to take him out of the 2024 race. presidential elections are sacred. we cannot let them be stolen. we can t let any elections be stolen. the only candidate they don t want to run against is trump, me, despite their disinformation campaign to the contrary. reporter: trump is expected to be charged with falsifying his this records, reimbursing cohen under the guise of legal expenses but to make that crime a felony, manhattan da alvin bragg s prosecutors will have to prove the trump did that to conceal another crime which in this case may be an improper donation to his 2016 campaign in violation of state election law. there is no evidence the manhattan da s office has reached out to trump s team directly. a spokesman says they learned about it through leaks to the
got in trouble for the felonies. we are committed for the sole purpose of benefiting trump s campaign. there was the media company and the national enquirer that was involved in conducting a fake cover story. the president s business, the trump organization that was the pass through for the money. michael cohen made the payments initially himself and the trump organization cut him a bunch of checks to cover his cash outlay and a nice cushion for his trouble on top of that. cohen has released copies of the checks that he got to cover the illegal hush money payments which he made before the campaign. they are made out to michael d. cohen, esquire on trump organization funds. they are signed by alan weisselberg or by donald trump, jr. they are signing checks, reimbursing cohen for the
the president s business, the trump organization that was the pass through for the money. michael cohen made the payments initially himself and the trump organization cut him a bunch of checks to cover his cash outlay and a nice cushion for his trouble on top of that. cohen has released copies of the checks that he got to cover the illegal hush money payments which he made before the campaign. they are made out to michael d. cohen, esquire on trump organization funds. they are signed by alan weisselberg or by donald trump, jr. they are signing checks, reimbursing cohen for the illegal payments he made. the trump organization also agreed they would call for the purpose of these payments legal expenses. they would list it as legal expenses on their books even though that s not what they were for.
of cohen. the fact that democrats in congress don t seem the least about it curious about whether russia interfered in our elections, whether the sitting president broke campaign finance laws, about whether he colluded with a foreign country to get elected, not even a little curious it s appalling. yet from what i ve seen and we ve investigated don t give me any pause whatsoever about this president. really? i mean do you really believe that? seven guilty pleas. one conviction. four people sentenced. 37 people and entities charged. crimes ranging from making false statements to money laundering to conspiracy against the united states. there s a check signed by sitting president donald trump reimbursing cohen for a hush money pay out. there s multiple contradictions about the trump to your moscow meetings. you have no pause?