hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
Monday. And this is the story. Michael cohen testifying once again. That is back underway. They are working through a technical issue with an audio evidence. So what is this piece of audio that were hearing on redirect from the prosecution . It comes after a very tense back and forth over a photograph that the prosecution wants the jury to see. So were going to get you caught up on all of what that is or what that may be. Earlier today, the defense elicited a bombshell. Our second one, really. One on thursday and another whopper today. A lawyer who secretly recorded his clients and lied repeatedly, by his own admission, under oath. And he admitted today that he stole from the trump organization. Youre actually just an opportunistic thief. You literally pocketed money from your employer. I stole 60,000 from my boss on the transaction in the heart of this case. Stealing 60,000 through fraud is more serious of a crime than falsifying Business Record. Martha well, thats about it, right . L
Conflicted. Im not allowed to have anything to do with politics because im sitting in a very freezing Cold Courtroom for last few weeks. Its very unfair. John that was earlier today and now a live look at the New York State Supreme Court building where Michael Cohen is getting his final shot on the stand before the prosecution rests its case against former President Donald Trump. Cohen expected to take The Stand For Redirect after jurors returned from lunch in the last hour. Im john roberts in washington, sander, hope you have a good rest over the weekend because we are in it for the rest of the week. Sandra into a brandnew week and its great to start it with you john. Im sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. Cohen making that admission on the stand. Revealing he stole Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. A key moment for the defense as it tries to attack cohens credibility. John he recalls that he told reporters that trump no nothing about the paym
My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c
there are attach possibilities. there are conspiracy possibilities. there are campaign violations that could be involved and a number of others, the reason i think it s difficult for us to pin down bragg s theory is because we don t know what evidence he obtained in front of the grand jury. he s spoken to a lot of witnesses, kellyanne conway, hope hicks, other people who were involved at the time that the stormy daniels nondisclosure agreement was negotiated and signed. it s very likely that bragg has something in hand that will be unexpected, unanticipated and we ll have to wait to see how those charges play out when he releases his indictment. i m so glad you made that clarification. let me ask as a point of clarification, joyce, is there still a possibility that a grand jury will not return an indictment or that bragg will decide against seeking one from the grand jury?