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Is imminent. aaron katersky leads us off. reporter: tonight, sources tell abc news the manhattan grand jury investigating former president trump over a hush payment to a porn actress will hear from an additional witness tomorrow. bob costello is an attorney and long time trump ally who at one point represented michael cohen. cohen is a key witness for the district attorney s office since he wrote the $130,000 check to stormy daniels. the trump legal team petitioned to have costello testify. and cohen says he has been asked to be available for rebuttal. the manhattan district attorney is still not saying whether he will charge trump with a crime, but he is saying he will not be intimidated. in an email to staff, d.a. alvin bragg said we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office. the message followed a social media post by trump this weekend saying he would be arrested tuesday and calling for protests. a spokesman is clarifying that ....
Administration neal katyal. your thoughts as we look at all of this. well, you re right, ari, that this all became a fever pitch over the weekend and i would just urge all of our viewers to be sober and wait to see what happens. i certainly can t wait to hear from mr. cohen, and i am so grateful for you for bringing him to our viewers in the next hour. i think that s very important, but the moment right now calls for a pause here. we don t know whether this indictment on tuesday is going to actually happen. we know donald trump tweeted it, but i ve never personally believed a word out of donald trump s mouth and i m not about to start now. there are indications that, you know, the grand jury and the d.a. s ramped up its investigation and it looks like there may be an indictment and i think we ll have to see what happened to see what happened. today s move to have costello, trump s attorney call before the grand jury. it s a fairly ill-advised move ....
Over the speed limit and i got a speeding ticket, the one and only in my entire life. other than that, i ve never had run-ins with law enforcement. it almost seems like in this pressure you shared or confided in mr. costello. yeah. now he s trying to say that because you were stressed and i think we can everyone can judge first, he seems to be trying to use that against the rest of the story. is that fair? no, it s not. it s a typical donald j. trump play out of the playbook. how do you muddy the water as best as he possibly can, disparage them. they did the same thing to cassidy hutchinson and did the same thing to anyone and everyone that is for the truth, and the beauty, the beauty that i have is i have facts. i have truth. i have the documentation. let me rephrase that. the district attorney has the ....
Argument that of course, he says, quote, of course donald trump didn t tell the truth and he says basically this was the way they were going to keep it secret and mr. costello today did say, this is the first time i had you on since then and i want to give you the benefit of responding. they say you just cooked this all up. donald trump didn t know about it. you did it for whatever your reasons are and they also say it wasn t a crime, and if there was anything wrong, that s on you, sir. what is your response to them saying you went rogue. that s the defense they ll put forward. it will fail and fail miserably on its face. first of all, i didn t sleep with stormy daniels. donald did. second of all, there were notifications that came into the trump organization about her. not filing a lawsuit, mr. costello, facts do matter especially on this show. she wasn t filing a lawsuit. she was going to go public with the information very much at a key time for the campaign. at a very key t ....
And it is not clear he ll have the ability that donald trump would want. they hadn t represented ruly as giuliani and i don t think a lawyer with red credibility issue attack another lawyer with criminal issues. the other thing is they brought him before the grand jury, costello, and they had lined up michael cohen to be a rebuttal witness and i m sure we ll hear about this when michael comes on the air, but cohen didn t even testify today. there is some reporting that he might testify on wednesday before the grand jury, and we are working independently to verify that. it doesn t look like this was some sort of big move that changed the game. indeed, if it really were a game changer, it was a strategic mistake on trump s part because you want to save that kind of ....