I'm Ari Melburgh here on the beat with Ari Melba, and let me tell you up top, there are a lot more

developments in the unprecedented story that first broke last night. If you've been busy, maybe didn't

hear it. If you were with us last night, I bet you noticed the New York Times dropping this absolute

bombshell news that Donald Trump is, quote, likely to be indicted in New York. Well, tonight,

Trump's lawyers acknowledge a key point in that account

that the DA has indeed invited Donald Trump to testify to the grand jury. And this isn't hypothetical.

This isn't someday. This is next week. An invite to testify next week, according to Trump lawyers.

Now, they are in Florida over the weekend. They're discussing strategy. They're taking

this as a real thing. Seriously. They tell NBC News. However, they have no plans to meet with the

Manhattan DA, Mr. Bragg. So let's get some clarity up top. There are many stories we cover where

we say, here's this thing, and then here are people involved.

Could be people in the Trump or the Biden administration, but they say, well, that's not the whole story or we disagree. This isn't that kind of story right now tonight. I could tell you,

there's no public debate about the escalation. You don't just casually suggest a former

president should pop down to tell the grand jurors stories about hush money payments.

This isn't some campaign documentary.

This isn't some Howard Stern interview.

This is a criminal grand jury.

Tonight, Trump's lawyers confirm and agree and don't deny that they have been furnished with this invite for Trump to do that next week.

Now, New York, DA, Alvin Bragg, is... they have been furnished with this invite for Trump to do that next week.

Now, New York DA Alvin Bragg is, we believe, only doing this as one of the last steps before what the Times calls a likely indictment.

Now, in one of his few TV interviews since taking office, Bragg did tell us that his

approach to the Trump probe was still

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