former members of the federal election committee have publicly stated there was no crime here. reporter: the crux of the grand jury investigation, a $130,000 payment that cohen made to stormy daniels before the 2016 campaign. he says was done at trump s direction to keep her quiet about an alleged affair and trump later reimbursed him for it. trump has denied the affair and says he relied on his lawyer s advice. payments were made. reporter: the legal question is whether the documentation of that payment on the books of the trump organization violated the law. the former president today pushing back ahead of any possible indictment. we have to get our country back. the doj, the fbi, the local prosecutors should all stop. and, laura, if the grand jury returns an indictment, tell us what would happen next. so, lester, in the typical case, an indictment would be filed under seal with the court. the defense team would be advised that their client, the defendant,
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should surrender, come in for fingerprinting, processing. that all happens at the district attorney s office behind closed doors. in this case we re told by trump s attorney if the grand jury indicts, he would turn himself in, lester. all right, laura jarrett, thank you. the justice department and the fbi are now investigating the social media giant tiktok over allegations the chinese-owned company was spying on americans. hallie jackson now with the latest. reporter: a new investigation tonight into whether tiktok s parent company is spying on americans. the justice department and fbi now looking into whether the chinese company bytedance illegally surveilled journalists according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter. some of those journalists include reporters for forbes who say they found they were tracked through user data and ip addresses. the companies acknowledged they were tracking my location in order to try to
figure out who was talking to me. reporter: the doj declining to comment and so is tiktok, but bytedance tells nbc it s investigating the spying internally and will cooperate with any official inquiries saying, we have strongly condemned the actions of the individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at bytedance as the biden administration is getting more aggressive about tiktok. one of the world s most popular social media apps, just this week issuing a kind of ultimatum telling bytedance to sell off the app or else face a tiktok ban here in america. china s foreign ministry today responding saying, the u.s. has failed to produce evidence the app threatens national security. tiktok now going on offense set to send some creators to washington next week according to a spokesperson. lawmakers and intelligence officials concerned about privacy. do you think it is a national security risk? yes. reporter: and the chinese propaganda could spread through t