From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, March 21st.

Well, all eyes are on Lower Manhattan, where a grand jury is concluding a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump,

as if you didn't know.

The Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to announce an indictment or a decision

not to indict Trump over hush money connected to an alleged affair with Stormy Daniels

that, hush money that he allegedly paid before the election in 2016.

That could come as soon as today, though we don't know.

Joining us now to share the latest legal analysis of the case and what might happen next,

especially if there is an indictment, is Andrew Weissman,

professor of criminal and national security law at the NYU School of Law, former general counsel

for the FBI under Robert Mueller, and then lead prosecutor in Mueller's special counsel's office

during the Russia investigation. He's also author of the book, Where Law Ends Inside the

Mueller Investigation and has an op-ed about this case in the New York Times today. Andrew always good

to have you. Welcome back to WNYC. It's always great to be here, Brian. So should we say off the

bat that we actually don't know if Alvin Bragg

at the end of this process is going to indict or decide not to indict? I think what we should say

is that, well, it is possible that Alvin Bragg will make a decision not to go forward, and it is

possible that the grand jury will find that there's insufficient

evidence to bring a charge based on the legal standard of probable cause. While those are both

possibilities, I think they're highly remote possibilities at this juncture.

So you think there's going to be an indictment.

Assuming they are really done hearing witnesses, is it DA Bragg himself who then

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