presidential campaign. laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months. that s according to people with knowledge of the matter. the grand jury was recently impanelled and witness testimony will soon began. the d.a. alvin bragg is nearing a decision on whether to charge trump. quote, super charging the longest running criminal investigation into mr. trump. a probe that began when donald trump s former attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to a host of charges for making a $130,000 payment to stormy daniels to pay for her silence ahead of the 2016 election. it s been a long and winding road to today s breaking news. at one point last year, the probe which grew to investigate the business practices of the trump org seemed all but dead with two top prosecutors leaving the d.a. s office after d.a. bragg stopped presenting evidence to the grand jury. the new york times is reporting the probe is moving again. on monda
payment. what did the prosecutors get for their hush money payments? isn t he an important witness, mr. pecker? the national enquirer is an important point of this. now they have to go and see what they collect in terms of the documents and knowledge. michael earlier and i was interested to hear and i ve read it in his book about the payments and the legal payments that went to him the important thing is he got those payments. they didn t show up on the tax returns. trump didn t then put them to the irs as a bright line, payments to michael for legal fees. somewhere somebody knows but how they were accounted for is really i think this is going to come down to. mushy line item that s big, where they can hide it, put in legal fees for another law firm.
you remember sonny bono? when he was a congressman, he would say. if sonny bono gets it, everybody gets it. he said i drive down the street and i see gas prices going up, i m always angry at the guy who was in charge. somewhere somebody in charge is not doing the right thing. gas prices continue to go up and people viscerally get it because they see it on big billboards every day. i love the mamas and the papas. i loved sonny bono. i loved even more milton freeman who could explain inflation very well in ways that everybody could understand. if you have a lot of things, and individual price of each one of those things cost less. if you shrink the amount of things you have and we see it now again with this supply chain shortage. the reason, one of the reason prices are going up is because we have fewer things and
it is entirely possible that it could also be trash. as we have seen over the last several weeks, there is a lot of debris out over the ocean from a number of different sources, the finding this morning is a reminder to all of us is that somewhere somebody is likely to find something. beach combing takes on a whole new meaning. absolutely it does. and we know the family members they want evidence and proof, some piece of this plane. and we know that a woman whose partner was on this triple seven said in terms of transparency and availability of information says that air traffic control audio should be made public. that s why the family members are trying to go back to square one, to day one and we want the malaysian government to open up the data that should have been opened up within days of the
complaining about the new york times or something like that. it s just a laugh line. if he would have said msnbc, it would have been the equivalent of that. somewhere somebody s saying, that s exactly what i said in that memo. now we re heading to the government shutdown and who knows how long it will last. and journalists kind of love these crises, even though this is a several inflicted crisis. you ve been in there business for a long period of time, how did they cover last week? how will they cover in that? i think we re going to see more of the coverage of the politics of it, not of the substance. i went online to try to figure this out for a friend of mine. i couldn t figure it out. figure out the premiums of obamacare? you can t. i could find a lot about the coverage of green eggs and ham. the one difference is, you