you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
if this is the very first case it is brought before the recent, maybe the start to the limitations issue and alvi bragg being ready to bring the case, why does that then sto what should be next? let s say that is going to b the jack smith case, for the stolen top secret documents, o whatever else. the insurrection, and one does not negate out the other just because this case goe first, it does not mean that the others fall by its way sought it disappear. they are just next yeah, point well take there. let me ask you what stormy daniels, who you know met with prosecutors last wednesday i know michael you said that you are the last witness as that changed? do you think there is one? the never said that on th last witness i wouldn t believe that i said i think it might be the last witness, but i m not sure. or
country. do you have a sense of how people are gonna react t charges being brought agains the former president for the stormy daniels issues if i happens? i think one thing we learne during the impeachment is that it can be trouble trouble sometimes if you r trying to take on donald trump in the narrative is to convoluted we saw that in the first official in ukraine. the stormi daniels case, it is certainly because on one level it s just hush money he paid money through hi company and lied about it an that is relatively easy to explain. on the other hand, i feel like it s going to be sort of a tough sell i know that the prosecutors from new york are now to think abou this it s another job for politicians trying to spin this, they have to think through how will peopl understand this messaging. republican senate relatively easy political persecution, democrats are going to - say the rule of law matters. it s gonna come down to is d
where did of the, gate let m tell, you if trump isn t is in this case would be a vindication for stormy daniels as well as for you that s a question have to ask a stormy, as far as fo myself something that you se the outside the courthouse, on 87th street, was that this was not a bad a vendetta this was not about revenge this was about donald trum being held accountable for his own 30 deeds plain and simple and i don t to se anybody that includes donald trump indicted, prosecutors an incarcerated because the fundamentally disagree with so much of what comes out of hi mouth. i want to see him held accountable for charges that h is guilty of you want to support the man
statement that said, i m not denying this affair because was paying hush money. i am denying it because it never happened that s a lie yes if it was untruthful, why did you sign it? they made something i had n choice was hush money to state silent yes. i turned down a large payday multiple times because one, did not want to kiss and tel and be labeled all the thing that are being labeled, now. that is stormy daniels in march 2018, her 2016 counter with donald trump is now bac to the spotlight and i hung grand jury prepared to deliver its decision and th hush money investigation but the man who pled guilty or two bestseller books since the payment of the $130,000 to daniels is joining me no michael, cohen welcome back. good to have you on the abou broadcast.