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thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this thursday. we are grateful. ari melber picks up our coverage right now on the beat. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those times we begin with breaking news we re just getting in a story from the new york times citing four sources about the potential indictment of donald trump in new york. this is the kind of leak, the kind of indication you may have heard before and said, well, are we back to more discussion about an indictment that will never come? the answer i can t give you tonight. what i can tell you is the new york times says with more than two sources here, a foul four sources, that the d.a. in new york is looking at campaign hush money payments, the somewhat infamous payments donald trump made and that part is known and proven to stormy daniels pursuant to the 2016 campaign. what many saw as a cover up but s never been charged. here s the headline from the new york times, prosecutors sign ....
thank you for spending part of your tuesday with us. the beat with ari melber starts right now. ali, always like to see you? how you doing? saw you in person last week even better. our thanks to alley velshi, our colleague here. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. great to be back with you. tonight we re tracking new report on what former vice president pence told jack smith about trump s coup plot, and later how right of had wing nationalists are winning in south america to parts of europe, where some find that surprising. this new election sending shock wave about so-called maga populism and trump s abroad. everyone later a fun item of interest to what the i ll have this for and explain why we think it s a good thing by the end of the hour. all that coming up. our top story are the signs of kremtle progress in the middle east conference. today marking a sixth day of cease-fire or pause. hamas released two more hostages, including two thai hostages, al ....
We re about to find out. a big grateful dead reference there, for another touch of gray, i turn back to michael avenatti by phone. we had lost the connection briefly. michael, the panel was just michael, the panel was just discussing whether donald trump looks rattled and whether he appears nervous given what he knows michael cohen knows. my question for you is while this raises obviously heat and criminal pressure on michael cohen, your adversary in the civil case, it doesn t in and of itself make your victory for stormy daniels more likely. indeed, it would appear to be a separate case? or do you disagree? well, i may disagree because i think the likelihood of michael cohen doing what they call taking five, which is pleading the fifth amendment in the event that we are successful in our efforts to get an order allowing his deposition just went up exponentially. and of course in federal court let s pause on that. let s just pause on that so we can break it out. you are saying ....
By mueller and under some crimina criminal suspicion. but at the end of the day, there will be a variety of different ways of proving whether the president was part of these conversations, we have seen some indication that he was researching early on the extent of his pardon power, how that matches up on the timelines where these conversations happened will be interesting. don t see a whole lot of silver lining for the white house, it s damaging. more than a touch of gray. ronado, let me read the trump-dowd review. this is a significant report, when you re talking about people who know things about donald trump who flipped and cooperated with mueller and this is a way to evade that. dowd stayed he didn t know why he told michael flynn, the president had long believed the case against flynn was ....