to evacuate tonight. water rescues under way. ginger zee here in new york, rob marciano in california, both tracking it all. in new york city, just in tonight, the convicted terrorist who drove that home depot truck into several bicyclists and pedestrians, killing them, has just learned his fate. also news just coming in involving the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, after his fall, leaving the hospital, but not going home. mary bruce is live. the criminal investigation involving former president trump. the grand jury here in new york hearing from a key witness today from trump s one-time confidant, lawyer, and fixer. and tonight, trump on whether he ll testify. aaron katersky reporting. the scare onboard a united flight taking off from newark. what was found in the bathroom. and the airport where it was landing temporarily closed to air traffic. a third concert canceled for bruce springsteen. what they re saying tonight. also news coming in this
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the indictment of former president trump. in court today. in new york. the 45th president of the united states, your former boss sitting in the courtroom, pleading not guilty to 34 counts. your thoughts on this day and what it means big picture? well, bret, you are right. i m not in the united states today but everyone is talking about it just like a lot of folks in the united states talking about it, too. trying to figure out how the heck a prosecutor from manhattan in new york could pros prosecuta series of statements made back in 2016, 2017. when he goes out and say well i m not going to normalize serious crime. it strikes all of them as tin eared. we know that s not why this prosecution was chosen. i have had a chance to read down through briefly the 34 counts. he made them felonies. i think this suggests what we all feared this is a political prosecution. and the prosecutor should not have made such a judgment to
president trump is nearing a conclusion. the prosecution s star witness, trump s former lawyer and chief fixer, michael cohen, testifying for three hours today before a manhattan grand jury. is this a triumphant day? i wouldn t call it that. hearing evidence about trump s hush payment to porn actress stormy daniels. cohen wrote the $130,000 check a month before the 2016 election and says the money violated campaign finance laws. this is all about accountability. he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. reporter: but on gma, his attorney insisting trump paid off the porn actress purely to protect his family. he made this with personal funds to prevent something coming out false but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. reporter: prosecutors are considering whether trump falsified business records by disguising the hush money as a routine legal expense. trump is in iowa, his first time there since announcing he s
do. but here s the difference others would have done that are in prison or facing long terms in prison, but no charges have ever been filed against rafe sct despite the fact there s no question did it because once more it s on tape. that s s very strange. iter just is . and we don t care how people call us . thanks for pointing that out. it is strangeit a a and we d lin answer to what the heck a is going on now. we ve asked on this show repeatedly to explain why he thinks he has escaped prosecution. ep and we ll ask him once again and we will keep asking because we think this is very obvious o and important question that gets to the heart of what xa is this exactly? ct but it s amazing how little democrats want too hear about this. again, nancy pelosi, liz, spento the last year staging an investigation at great expensen and in a series of public show trials arresting people in their homes supposedly designed to discover how and why january six happened. but they remain curiously uni