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i'm ari melber in for nicolle and i'll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he's testified today at the request of trump's legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes it...

Former president now is continuing to stand by what he first announced this weekend, he expects to be indicted. law enforcement are bracing for that possibility without confirming that it's coming, or any protester violence that could come, preparations include perimeter security around manhattan criminal court, several hundred additional officers ready to be on hand for protests. i want to be careful and clear in what we are referring to, the former president called for something that "the new york times" reported this way, quote, mr. trump's post on saturday urging his supporters to protest ...

What do you see here, charlie? >> i would assess that language, in fact a lot of this filing in the say way you just did. this is a pattern of trump's legal teams. i say that plural because he's had so many different ones in all these different types of litigation around the country he's involved in. some criminal, some civil. and it is very common for those filings to be written in a way that seems unuse bible for a courtroom. they're making arguments that are quotable, that jump out. they're good for newspaper writers like me because they're not turgid, they're punchy. but they don't really ...

But including in georgia. and at the federal level. so it would be kind of astounding to all of a sudden a half century later decide they're unconstitutional because they're inconvenience. >> hmm. yeah. all fair points. greg, on the ground there i will say that it was certainly sun usual to have this many grand jurors speaking out. and this filing, again, to the points i think all three of you have referred to, maybe for other public reasons, raises this point. in truth, if you want to get into it, and we've got time, let's get into it, there are more permissive rules on what grand jurors can ...

That role, in the movies sometimes they call it a fixer and to be clear fixer doesn't automatically mean you're a criminal but it means you might do more than file motions. so with that in mind let me read from this. we have some of the reporting from back in 2019. costello said he was speaking with trump's lawyer giuliani at the time, reassured cohen in an april 2018 email, cohen could, quote, sleep well tonight as i said, fixer talk. he has friends in high places. emails from 2018 and other documents don't mention a pardon although that would be seem to be an implication when dealing with th...