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their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the gran ....
Their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 ....
Way. barbara, what is your reaction to trump s attorney supporting costello going before the grand jury ahead of the potential trial down the road, if there were an indictment, and the decision not to call cohen to rebut him immediately afterward? it s difficult to know exactly what happened. i think we can make some reasonable inferences. we know donald trump himself was invited to come testifyjf befor the grand jury. as is customary in new york. he declined that invitation, as isu i think the failure of the prosecutors to call michael ■ did not believe that the case was in any way diminishedx ....
By the testimony. after all, the job of a grand jury is to find probable cause, nwtt gtp&t beyond a reasonable doubt. theyt( assessed whatever it was mr. costello said, it didn t damage the case so much it was necessary to bring mr. cohen in. w3chuck, what are the possib outcomes here for donald trump? well, if he is indicted, i think it s ite1 seems likely andrea, he is going to have to go before a judge, be arraigned. he willy1 have to be processed. that required photographs and fingerprints.xd those are all rather predictable and flow organically from an indictment. i want to touch on one thing barbara said. a grand jury s role is morefáñr limited. they only need to find probable cause. it s a relatively low standard and appropriately so. ....