here. in norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. he is grilling from lawmakers, today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the manhattan district attorney s office recently signaled to trump s lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money. prosecutors offered trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury. alvin bragg in his office declined to comment on th
all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow it was four days before the 2016 election when the wall street journal published this report national enquirer shielded donald trump from playboy model s affair allegation. the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would ve been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump s access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had anno
criminal charges. the new reporting about the hush money investigation into former president donald trump and his apparent invitation to testify. then, airline safety in the spotlight as years of close calls and midair emergencies have travelers on edge. captain sully sullenberger is here. and norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. plus grilling from lawmakers , today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the