Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen may be called back to testify in hush money probe

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

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The Manhattan’s District Attorney’s office is weighing whether they should recall Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to testify again or call another witness to refute testimony by Robert Costello, who was once a legal adviser to Cohen. The DA is investigating whether Trump may have been involved in a scheme to pay hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in an attempt to cover up an alleged affair. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig joins AC360 to discuss where he thinks the investigation is headed.

Plus, additional South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents are being assigned to the Stephen Smith homicide case. Smith’s mother, Sandy Smith, tells Anderson Cooper how it feels to have the case reinvestigated.

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0:00.0	Good evening, two big pieces tonight at the former president's multifaceted legal
0:04.6	saga, a one going more slowly than perhaps some, including perhaps the former president
0:08.5	might have expected.
0:09.5	And tonight we know why.
0:10.8	The other, comparatively moving at warp speed.
0:13.6	The slow case is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's grand jury probe of the Stormy
0:17.7	Dam Daniels hush money case, no indictments again today.
0:21.2	A source telling CNET John Miller that Bragg's office is trying to decide whether to call
0:24.9	back former fixture Michael Cohen to rebut defense testimony from Monday.
0:29.9	We also learned just how much money the former president has already raised since claiming
0:33.8	over the weekend that he'd been indicted by yesterday.
0:36.7	As campaign telling Fox today, they've taken in $1.5 million, so making up a story that
0:41.5	he'd been dided yesterday has paid off for the former president donations.
0:46.0	And as all this plays out, one of the former president's Capitol Hill enablers showed again
0:49.9	today he's not willing to back up his words with evidence.
0:53.3	And a Rand Paul for second straight day refusing to say why D.A. Bragg should be in the words
0:57.6	of his tweet yesterday put in jail.
1:01.8	Senator Paul, what law did the Alvin Bragg break that needs to go to jail?
1:06.1	Why do you think he needs to be in jail?
1:08.2	Senator Paul?
1:10.7	That's the slow moving case.
1:11.7	The faster one being the federal classified documents probe.
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